What's the difference between foot and head?

Foot


Definition:

  • (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.

Head


Definition:

  • (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
  • (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
  • (n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
  • (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
  • (n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
  • (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
  • (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
  • (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
  • (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
  • (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
  • (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
  • (n.) Power; armed force.
  • (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
  • (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
  • (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
  • (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
  • (n.) The antlers of a deer.
  • (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
  • (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
  • (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
  • (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
  • (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
  • (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
  • (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
  • (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
  • (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
  • (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
  • (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
  • (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (2) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (3) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
  • (4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (5) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (6) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (7) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
  • (8) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (9) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (10) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
  • (11) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
  • (12) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (13) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
  • (14) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (16) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (17) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
  • (18) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (19) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
  • (20) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].