(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
(n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
(n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
(n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
(n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
(n.) The lower edge of a sail.
(v. i.) To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
(v. i.) To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
(v. t.) To kick with the foot; to spurn.
(v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
(v. t.) To tread; as, to foot the green.
(v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
(v. t.) The size or strike with the talon.
(v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(2) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
(4) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(5) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(6) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(7) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
(8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
(9) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
(10) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(11) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
(12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(13) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(14) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(15) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
(16) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(17) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
(18) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
(19) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(20) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
Fort
Definition:
(n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
(2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(3) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
(4) It was shown that six pesticides induced a statistically significant increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations: Bi 58 EC, Metasystox (I) forte, Sadofos 30, Nogos 50 EC, Foschlor 25 and Thiodan 35.
(5) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(6) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
(7) Experience with 240 midface (Le Fort and zygoma) fractures in multiple trauma patients has emphasized that superior aesthetic results are obtained by immediate extended open reduction with primary bone grafting.
(8) In 12 patients with coronary heart disease and increased left ventricular filling pressure the pressure lowering effect of an oral long-acting nitroglycerin preparation (Sustac-Retard forte) was investigated at rest (n = 6) and during exercise (n = 6).
(9) Also the fat absorption with Creon was superior to that with Pancrex V Forte.
(10) The system involves a description of the highest level of Le Fort fracture on each side, a description of the fragment that carries the maxillary dentition, and a description of accompanying nasoethmoidal or mandibular fractures.
(11) A double-blind randomized study to compare the plasma cortisol values at both 9.00 a.m. and 12 midnight following topical application fo 10 g daily for 7 days of either diflucortolone valerate 0.3% (Nerisone Forte) ointment or clobetasol propionate 0.05% (Dermovate) ointment in 20 hospital inpatients suffering from severe psoriasis, showed that clinically both compounds behaved as potent, highly active topical preparations and caused rapid clinical improvement.
(12) In 2010, while he was based at Fort Worth in Texas, he was arrested after discharging a firearm.
(13) Hylak forte proved to be effective in the therapy of enteritis in infants; the period of excretion of salmonella was significantly reduced.
(14) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
(15) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
(16) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
(17) In 1985 the families of 137 passengers killed when a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport stayed in a secluded hotel while waiting for the victims' bodies to be retrieved and identified.
(18) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
(19) Le Fort I and sagittal split osteotomies were associated with a mean decrease in MIO of 28%, while Le Fort I and vertical subcondylar osteotomies had a mean decrease of 9%.
(20) Fort McMurray is the hub of Alberta’s oil sands region .