foot
part of speech
noun (foot, feet); verb (foot the bill — pay)
meaning for a pupil
1) A foot is the part of your leg you stand on. tree →
2) A foot is a unit of length, about as long as a ruler; a foot is 12 inches. tree →
3) The foot of something is its bottom: «the foot of the hill». tree →
4) On foot means walking. tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of length (feet tall, feet long), or the feet of people and animals; a foot is 12 inches and a yard is 3 feet; phrases: «on foot», «feet tall», «feet long», «at the foot of», «put your foot down» (be firm)
examples
- The tree is 25 feet tall. tree →
- The fence is 40 feet long. tree →
- One foot is 12 inches. tree →
- The frog jumped 10 feet. tree →
- We go to school on foot. tree →
- A duck has webbed feet. tree →
- They camped at the foot of the mountain. tree →
- A yard is 3 feet. tree →
- Charney trembled from head to foot. tree →
note
«A foot is 12 inches.» «A yard is 3 feet.» Plural: feet (not «foots»). A unit of length, not a thing counted. Trap: feet and inches must be changed to one unit before adding or comparing. Short form: ft.
In the corpora
- Dabke is a line dance from the Levant, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan, with linked hands and stamping feet.
- The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.
- Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.
- Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.
- Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «foot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.