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Foot can be a verb or a noun.
foot used as a verb:
- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To pay (a bill).
- To parse into metrical feet.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
foot used as a noun:
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
"A spider has eight feet." - Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
"Southern Italy is shaped like a foot." - Travel by walking.
"We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi." - The base or bottom of anything.
"I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs." - The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
"We came and stood at the foot of the bed." - The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
"The host should sit at the foot of the table." - A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
"The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor." - A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
"Most people are less than six feet tall." - Foot soldiers; infantry.
"King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse." - The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The bottom edge of a sail.
"To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail." - The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is foot?
- Noun usage: A spider has eight feet.
- Noun usage: Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.
- Noun usage: We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.
- Noun usage: There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.
- Noun usage: I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.
- Noun usage: We came and stood at the foot of the bed.
- Noun usage: The host should sit at the foot of the table.
- Noun usage: The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.
- Noun usage: Most people are less than six feet tall.
- Noun usage: King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.
- Noun usage: To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of foot are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of foot, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).