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feet

[feet]

noun

a plural of foot.

Idioms

drag one's feet, to act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant to act, comply, etc.: We can't begin the project until the steering committee stops dragging its feet.

on one's feet,

in a standing position.

in an independent or secure position: The loan helped him get on his feet again.

in a restored or recovered state; able to continue: Psychotherapy helped her get back on her feet after her breakdown.

sit at the feet of, to attend upon as a disciple or follower: American writers and painters no longer sit at the feet of Europeans.

stand on one's own feet,

to be financially self-supporting.

to be independent: Overprotective parents do not prepare their children to stand on their own feet.

Also, stand on one's own two feet.

sweep one off one's feet, to impress or overwhelm by ability, enthusiasm, or charm: The gaiety of the occasion swept them off their feet.

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Feet is always a great word to know.

So is zedonk. Does it mean:

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

If your feet are still healthy, you'd be wise to take precautions now to keep them that way.

After a couple of years of this behavior, his feet are still going strong, but he is young and strong.

Asimo's steps are less than half the length of its feet, and both feet are off the ground for a mere five milliseconds, he notes.

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If your feet are still healthy, you'd be wise to take precautions now to keep them that way.

After a couple of years of this behavior, his feet are still going strong, but he is young and strong.

Asimo's steps are less than half the length of its feet, and both feet are off the ground for a mere five milliseconds, he notes.

Raptors have powerful taloned feet they use to seize and immobilize prey.

To see how far-reaching climate change effects could be, you might try looking under your feet.

Push down on feet ascenders, push up with arm ascenders, stick your butt out and rest.

Imagine plummeting thousands of feet and living to tell about it.

Hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas are in the rock below.

What inveterate wearers sometimes gripe about is the niggling pain felt when forced to walk with their feet flat.

Some scientists think that elephants communicate through their feet more often then their sense of hearing.

Organists at ballgames bring us together, cheering, to our feet.

Great sharks blacktips, great whites and other species longer than six feet have been hunted almost to extinction in places.

My feet got tougher, but were still happier with the rubber covering, especially on rocky ground and asphalt.

His largest and best measured four feet in length, with a headlight-sized mirror and the zany appearance of a ray gun.

He remembered the sand shaking under his feet from mortar fire and the dead bodies rolling in the surf, against his legs.

Arctic permafrost is collapsing into the sea by as much as a hundred feet a year in some places, new studies say.

Thinking about the movement of their tongue or feet raised or lowered the chopper.

Often barely three feet wide and half that deep, the lowly acequia is a hand-dug, lovingly maintained ditch.

They loosened up and my feet quickly grew accustomed to the additional support.

Nor can they be brought into the lab to play at mom's feet.

But some are as large as two-and-a-half by five feet.

Adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water's surface.

It is four feet thick at the bottom, tapering to two feet at the top, with concentric layers of steel reinforcing bars.

No mortal man may scale it or set foot thereon, not though he had twenty hands and feet.

He basically moves the body back a little bit so that it is no longer over the feet.

The school can't make a decision or is dragging its feet in reviewing applications.

Consultants are nothing if not ingenious in getting their feet on the fender.

Sightings of living frilled sharks are rare, because the fish generally remain thousands of feet beneath the water's surface.

Like wall-hugging geckos, tree frogs are capable of gravity-defying feats of the feet.

Add to this the almost vertical body, with tail extended in line, and glorious blue legs and feet.

Unless you're suicidal, when you ride a fixed-gear bike, you'll want to strap your feet in.

When one of these things happens, you don't always know what it's going to be about, so you must think on your feet.

The geckos' secret is millions of microscopic hairs on the pads of their feet.

Lets think about a pygmy standing about three feet high.

They found that a turtle with a tall shell simply waggles its head and feet to start rolling over.

He also talked to locals who told of harbor shores that over the previous two decades had risen four feet in unnoticeable.

The big problem here is failing to secure bookcases to a wall when they are more than four feet tall.

Someone may soon be able to tell what types material are in your pockets from tens, and possibly thousands, of feet away digg_url.

Of her generation-black scholars now finding their feet in academe-she says:.

He climbed on for a test while it was still only a few feet above the ground.

If there is ice, pack it around their head and neck first, then around their feet and hands.

Fish swam over my head and a landscape of rocks, trees and debris appeared between my feet.

Then again, there are some hires who seem to drag their feet on putting down roots.

The chalk talk doesn't involve slides and should demonstrate that you can think on your feet.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

(in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.

(in invertebrates) any part similar in position or function.

such a part considered as the organ of locomotion.

a unit of length, originally derived from the length of the human foot. It is divided into 12 inches and equal to 30.48 centimeters. Abbreviation: ft., f.

foot soldiers; infantry.

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walking or running motion; pace: swift of foot.

quality or character of movement or motion; tread; step.

any part or thing resembling a foot, as in function, placement, shape, etc.

Furniture.

a shaped or ornamented feature terminating a leg at its lower part.

any of several short legs supporting a central shaft, as of a pedestal table.

10.

a rim, flange, or flaring part, often distinctively treated, serving as a base for a table furnishing or utensil, as a glass, teapot, or candlestick.

11.

the part of a stocking, sock, etc., covering the foot.

12.

the lowest part, or bottom, of anything, as of a hill, ladder, page, etc.

13.

a supporting part; base.

14.

the part of anything opposite the top or head: He waited patiently at the foot of the checkout line.

15.

the end of a bed, grave, etc., toward which the feet are placed: Put the blanket at the foot of the bed, please.

16.

Printing. the part of the type body that forms the sides of the groove, at the base.

17.

the last, as of a series.

18.

that which is written at the bottom, as the total of an account.

19.

Prosody. a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse.

20.

Usually, foots.

sediment or dregs.

footlights.

21.

Nautical. the lower edge of a sail.

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verb (used without object)

22.

to walk; go on foot (often followed by it): We'll have to foot it.

23.

to move the feet rhythmically, as to music or in dance (often followed by it).

24.

(of vessels) to move forward; sail: to foot briskly across the open water.

verb (used with object)

25.

to walk or dance on: footing the cobblestones of the old city.

26.

to perform (a dance): cavaliers footing a galliard.

27.

to traverse on or as if on foot.

28.

to make or attach a foot to: to foot a stocking.

29.

to pay or settle: I always end up footing the bill.

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30.

to add (a column of figures) and set the sum at the foot (often followed by up).

31.

to seize with talons, as a hawk.

32.

to establish.

33.

Archaic. to kick, especially to kick away.

34.

Obsolete. to set foot on.

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Idioms

35.

get/have/ a/one's foot in the door, to succeed in achieving an initial stage or step.

36.

get off on the right/wrong foot, to begin favorably or unfavorably: He got off on the wrong foot with a tactless remark about his audience.

37.

have one foot in the grave. grave¹ (def. 5).

38.

on foot, by walking or running, rather than by riding.

39.

put one's best foot forward,

to attempt to make as good an impression as possible.

to proceed with all possible haste; hurry.

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40.

put one's foot down, to take a firm stand; be decisive or determined.

41.

put one's foot in/into it, Informal. to make an embarrassing blunder. Also, put one's foot in/into one's mouth.

42.

set foot on/in, to go on or into; enter: Don't set foot in this office again!

43.

under foot, in the way: That cat is always under foot when I'm getting dinner.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English fōt; cognate with German Fuss; akin to Latin pēs (stem ped-), Greek poús (stem pod-)

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World English Dictionary

feet (fiːt)

—n
1.	the plural of foot
2.	at someone's feet as someone's disciple
3.	be run off one's feet, be rushed off one's feet to be very busy
4.	carry off one's feet, sweep off one's feet to fill with enthusiasm
5.	feet of clay a weakness that is not widely known
6.	get one's feet wet to begin to participate in something
7.	have one's feet on the ground, keep one's feet on the ground to be practical and reliable
8.	on one's feet, on its feet
	a. standing up
	b. in good health
	c. (of a business, company, etc) thriving
9.	put one's feet up to rest
10.	stand on one's own feet to be independent

'feetless

—*adj*

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

foot

O.E. fot, from P.Gmc. *fot (cf. O.N. fotr, Du. voet, Ger. Fuß, Goth. fotus "foot"), from PIE *pod-/*ped- (cf. Avestan pad-; Skt. pat, acc. padam "foot;" Gk. pos, Attic pous, gen. podos; L. pes, gen. pedis "foot;" Lith. padas "sole," peda "footstep"). Plural form feet is an instance of

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i-mutation. Of a bed, grave, etc., first recorded c.1300. The linear measurement of 12 inches is first recorded in O.E., from the length of a man's foot. To foot a bill is attested from 1848, from the process of tallying the expenses and writing the figure at the bottom ("foot") of the bill. Theatrical footlights is first attested 1836. Colloquial exclamation my foot! expressing "contemptuous contradiction" is first attested 1923, probably a euphemism for my ass, in the same sense, which dates back to 1796. The metrical foot (O.E., translating L. pes, Gk. pous in the same sense) is commonly taken as a reference to keeping time by tapping the foot. To get off on the right foot is from 1909; to put one's best foot foremost first recorded 1849.

feet

plural of foot (q.v.).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

foot (f&oobreve;t)
n. pl. feet (fēt)

The lower extremity of the vertebrate leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking.
A unit of length in the U.S. Customary and British Imperial systems equal to 12 inches (30.48 centimeters).

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

foot (f

t) Pronunciation Key
Plural feet (fēt)
A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to ¹/₃ of a yard or 12 inches (30.48 centimeters). See Table at measurement.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

feet

In addition to the idioms beginning with feet, also see at someone's feet; both feet on the ground; dead on one's feet; don't let the grass grow under one's feet; drag one's feet; fall on one's feet; get one's feet wet; get the lead out of (one's feet); get to one's feet; have two left feet; hold someone's feet to the fire; off one's feet; on one's feet; put one's feet up; rush off one's feet; shake the dust from one's feet; six feet under; stand on one's feet; take the load off (one's feet); think on one's feet; under one's feet; vote with one's feet. Also see under foot.

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