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# foot

«foot» in Mova's school dictionary: **the part of your leg you stand on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#m1)

2) A foot is a unit of length, about as long as a ruler; a foot is 12 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#m2)

3) The foot of something is its bottom: «the foot of the hill». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#m3)

4) On foot means walking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x1)
- The fence is 40 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x2)
- One foot is 12 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x3)
- The frog jumped 10 feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x4)
- We go to school on foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x5)
- A duck has webbed feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x6)
- They camped at the foot of the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x7)
- A yard is 3 feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x8)
- Charney trembled from head to foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/13/)
- [The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/17/)
- [Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/0/)
- [Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/1/)
- [Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.