(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.
Trotter
Definition:
(n.) One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.
(n.) The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
(2) The original headline on a news story in the Times obviously conveyed a little too much of the Del Trotters for some tastes.
(3) Two trotter stud farms were visited on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during 1972 and 1973.
(4) Andy Trotter, who leads on media policy for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), backed the section on whistleblowers .
(5) The next week, Emanuel outdid him, inviting more than 1,500 African-American women to a free lunch hosted by notables like former Obama social secretary Desirée Rogers and Rochelle Trotter, wife of late Chicago culinary legend Charlie Trotter.
(6) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
(7) January 30, 2013 5.30pm GMT Trotter calls Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island... fat?
(8) One of the mutations was genetically mapped at a site in or near the acrA and mtc loci at approximately 10.5 min on the Taylor and Trotter map (1972).
(9) • This article was amended on 23 December 2012 to clarify a reference to remarks made by Andy Trotter in a previous Guardian article.
(10) Trotter's syndrome is a clinical triad of unilateral deafness, neuralgia affecting branches of the trigeminal nerve, and defective mobility of the soft palate, which is caused by malignant tumors involving the lateral pharyngeal recess (Rosenmüller's fossa).
(11) Trotter said there may be limited circumstances when police would need to name under arrest.
(12) There is nearly complete assortative mating for gait; however, about 20% of the offspring sired by trotters are registered as pacers, while fewer than 1% of those sired by pacers are registered as trotters.
(13) We have measured plasma alanine and urea concentrations in well-trained Standardbred and Finnish-bred (cold-blooded) trotters after a graded-intensity exercise and during recovery to study metabolic responses to exercise in this animal model.
(14) September 20, 2015 James Lyons (@STJamesl) Whoever squealed on Dave must be a real trotter #imHereAllWeek September 20, 2015 Some Twitter users dug up unfortunate pictures.
(15) Andy Trotter, the former Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman on media matters, has said: “There is a case for saying we should look at a different standard of authorisation and that may well come out of the reviews that are being undertaken now.” But speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Trotter defended the decision by police to secretly obtain the phone records of journalists investigating the Plebgate and Chris Huhne speeding points cases saying there were sometimes “higher needs for justice” than protecting confidential journalists’ sources.
(16) They were also significantly lower than those of the Trotter mares during the last 4 weeks of gestation.
(17) Needing to win at Nottingham Forest and for Bolton not to beat Blackpool, Leicester’s 90th-minute strike at the City Ground and the Trotters’ 2-2 draw allowed them to scrape into sixth.
(18) In connection to one personal case, the authors analyze Trotter's Median Labiomandibular Glossotomy.
(19) A study was carried out to attempt to explain the basis of the association between the Es locus and starting proportion in Swedish Trotters which had been observed previously.
(20) The extent of genetic difference between Standardbred trotters and pacers was as great as or greater than that seen between some distinct horse breeds.