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It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
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Meaning of "foot" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FOOT

Old English fōt; related to Old Norse fōtr, Gothic fōtus, Old High German fuoz, Latin pēs, Greek pous, Sanskrit pad.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOT

foot  [fʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foot is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb foot in English.

WHAT DOES FOOT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

foot

Foot

The foot is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails.

Definition of foot in the English dictionary

The first definition of foot in the dictionary is the part of the vertebrate leg below the ankle joint that is in contact with the ground during standing and walking related adjective pedal. Other definition of foot is the part of a garment that covers a foot. Foot is also any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates, including molluscs.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FOOT

PRESENT

Present
I foot
you foot
he/she/it foots
we foot
you foot
they foot
Present continuous
I am footing
you are footing
he/she/it is footing
we are footing
you are footing
they are footing
Present perfect
I have footed
you have footed
he/she/it has footed
we have footed
you have footed
they have footed
Present perfect continuous
I have been footing
you have been footing
he/she/it has been footing
we have been footing
you have been footing
they have been footing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I footed
you footed
he/she/it footed
we footed
you footed
they footed
Past continuous
I was footing
you were footing
he/she/it was footing
we were footing
you were footing
they were footing
Past perfect
I had footed
you had footed
he/she/it had footed
we had footed
you had footed
they had footed
Past perfect continuous
I had been footing
you had been footing
he/she/it had been footing
we had been footing
you had been footing
they had been footing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will foot
you will foot
he/she/it will foot
we will foot
you will foot
they will foot
Future continuous
I will be footing
you will be footing
he/she/it will be footing
we will be footing
you will be footing
they will be footing
Future perfect
I will have footed
you will have footed
he/she/it will have footed
we will have footed
you will have footed
they will have footed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been footing
you will have been footing
he/she/it will have been footing
we will have been footing
you will have been footing
they will have been footing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would foot
you would foot
he/she/it would foot
we would foot
you would foot
they would foot
Conditional continuous
I would be footing
you would be footing
he/she/it would be footing
we would be footing
you would be footing
they would be footing
Conditional perfect
I would have foot
you would have foot
he/she/it would have foot
we would have foot
you would have foot
they would have foot
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been footing
you would have been footing
he/she/it would have been footing
we would have been footing
you would have been footing
they would have been footing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you foot
we let´s foot
you foot
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to foot
Past participle
footed
Present Participle
footing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOT

foosball
foot brake
foot fault
foot fault judge
foot passenger
foot patrol
foot patrolman
foot patrolmen
foot rot
foot rule
foot soldier
foot traffic
foot valve
foot-and-mouth
foot-and-mouth disease
foot-candle
foot-dragging
foot-lambert
foot-pound
foot-pound-second

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOT

barefoot
bigfoot
boot
hoot
loot
on foot
on the back foot
on the front foot
on the right foot
on the wrong foot
photoshoot
reboot
root
scoot
shoot
square root
the boot
to boot
troubleshoot
woot

Synonyms and antonyms of foot in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOOT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «foot» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of foot
base · bottom · end · foundation · hoof · pad · paw · trotter

Translation of «foot» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOT

Find out the translation of foot to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foot from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foot» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pie
570 millions of speakers

English

foot
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पैर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَدَم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ступня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pied
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kaki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fuß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sikil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ayak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piede
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stopa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ступня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

picior
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fot
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foot

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOT»

The term «foot» is very widely used and occupies the 2.472 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «foot» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «foot» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foot

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10 QUOTES WITH «FOOT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foot.
1
Ed Balls
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
2
Lionel Barrymore
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
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David M. Brown
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
4
Alastair Campbell
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
5
Joshua Chamberlain
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.
6
Gwendoline Christie
I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'
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Sophie Kennedy Clark
What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
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Patsy Cline
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
9
Kelly Corrigan
I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
10
Georges Cuvier
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOT»

Discover the use of foot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites
Beginner's text describes all sorts of feet doing all sorts of things.
Dr. Seuss, 1996
2
How Big Is a Foot?
The Queen's birthday is only a few days away. How can they figure out what size the bed should be? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rolf Myller, 2009
3
Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space ...
A new edition of the classic gardening handbook details a simple yet highly effective gardening system, based on a grid of one-foot by one-foot squares, that produces big yields with less space and with less work than with conventional row ...
Mel Bartholomew, 2005
4
The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel
A testament to the inevitability of destiny, this is a fable for the ages—charming, endearing, and compulsively readable.
Richard C. Morais, 2010
5
Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief: The New Science of ...
Links foot pain to a variety of medical disorders while sharing advice on how to heal and prevent pain and slow related damage to the rest of the body, identifying options for recommended footwear at various times of life.
Katy Bowman, 2011
6
All New Square Foot Gardening
Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening?
Mel Bartholomew, 2006
7
Neale's Disorders of the Foot
Students will find in this one volume everything they need to know about foot disorders and their treatment in order to pass their examinations, while practitioners will continue to appreciate the book’s accessibility and relevance to ...
Paul Frowen, Maureen O'Donnell, J. Gordon Burrow, 2010
8
Atlas of Foot and Ankle Sonography
The book contains over 500 illustrations, including full-color Doppler images and correlative MR images to show comparative anatomy and pathology.
Ronald Adler, Carolyn M. Sofka, Rock G. Positano, 2004
9
All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The ...
This beautiful new edition also contains all-new information on popular topics like gardening with kids and controlling pests.
Mel Bartholomew, 2013
10
Sarrafian's Anatomy of the Foot and Ankle: Descriptive, ...
Meticulously updated, this new edition captures all of today’s clinical knowledge on the anatomy of the foot and ankle.
Armen S Kelikian, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foot is used in the context of the following news items.
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Report: 76ers' Joel Embiid needs 2nd foot surgery, will miss 2015 …
Nearly one month after suffering a setback in the healing of his surgically repaired right foot, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid will now ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
2
First-timers win Chuckanut Foot Race | Bellingham Herald …
Dillon Quintana won the 49th Annual Chuckanut Foot Race in 38 minutes, 16 seconds. Never having run this before, he registered on race ... «The Bellingham Herald, Jul 15»
3
Jamieson: Tall task awaits 6-foot-9 Canucks goalie prospect
John McLean caused a few double-takes at the Canucks development camp this past week at Shawnigan Lake School. At 6-foot-9 and 210 ... «The Province, Jul 15»
4
Kalama honors 125th birthday with 16.5-foot strawberry shortcake
Though the 2-inch-deep, 6-foot-wide, 16.5-foot-long strawberry shortcake assembled Saturday for Kalama's 125th birthday bash couldn't earn ... «Longview Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Teen reels in 8-foot shark off Fernandina marina docks
A teen in Fernandina reeled in an 8-foot shark off the docks at the marina Saturday afternoon. Noah Thrift, 15, works on the charter boat Ye ... «First Coast News, Jul 15»
6
Rumer Willis takes the stage despite injured foot during DWTS …
Back at it: Rumer Willis, 26, took to Instagram on Saturday to show she's still participating in the DWTS Perfect 10 tour despite sustaining a foot ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
Report: Joel Embiid To Undergo Foot Surgery, Likely To Miss 2015 …
The 7-footer will have a second surgery after the latest setback in the healing of his right foot, according to several NBA sources. The team will ... «SLAM Online, Jul 15»
8
The smallest biggest prospect: 5-foot-2 Darnell Rogers wows at …
Rogers, 18, is the shortest Division I prospect I've ever seen, and although he tells me he's 5-foot-2, he might only be hitting that height thanks ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
9
Trail Blazers sign 6-foot-7 guard Luis Montero | OregonLive.com
Trail Blazers sign 6-foot-7 guard Luis Montero. Blazers 2015 Pre-Draft Workouts. Luis Montero of Westchester Community College (N.Y) works ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
10
Jeb Puts Foot in Mouth, Exposes GOP Hypocrisy | Jeff Schauer
To this point, Jeb Bush's presidential campaign has been about showing that bother George isn't the only one of the Bush siblings whose foot ... «Redding Record Searchlight, Jul 15»

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