What is the meaning of foot?

noun

• The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint.
  • usage: "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"
  • synonyms: human foot, pes
• A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
  • usage: "he is six feet tall"
  • synonyms: ft
• The lower part of anything.
  • usage: "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"
• The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings.
  • synonyms: animal foot
• Lowest support of a structure.
  • usage: "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
  • synonyms: foundation, base, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure
• Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates.
  • synonyms: invertebrate foot
• Travel by walking.
  • usage: "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"
• A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger.
• An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot.
  • usage: "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
  • synonyms: infantry
• Prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.
  • synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit
• A support resembling a pedal extremity.
  • usage: "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

verb

• Pay for something.
  • usage: "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
  • synonyms: pick
• Walk.
  • usage: "let's hoof it to the disco"
  • synonyms: leg it, hoof, hoof it
• Add a column of numbers.
  • synonyms: foot up