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foot
English
Alternative forms
- foote (obsolete)
- (plural): feets (dialectal); foots (nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English f?t, from Proto-West Germanic *f?t, from Proto-Germanic *f?ts, from Proto-Indo-European *p?ds.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fo?ot, IPA(key): /f?t/, [f?t]
- (General American) IPA(key): [f?t?]
- (US)
- (UK) IPA(key): [f?t?], [f?t?], [f??t]
- (UK)
- (UK)
- (Canada) IPA(key): [f?t?], [f??t?]
- (Cape Flats; Indian South African) IPA(key): [f?t]
- (Estuary) IPA(key): [f???t]
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
foot (plural feet)
- 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.
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (phonology) 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.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher
- Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.
- 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
- As to his being on the foot of a servant.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
Usage notes
- (unit of length):
- The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is feet, but in many contexts, foot itself may be used ("he is six foot two"). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.
- It is sometimes abbreviated ', such as in tables, lists or drawings.
Synonyms
- pes
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
- (unit of length): inch, yard, mile
- (end of a table): head, sides
- (bottom of a page): head, body
- (bottom edge of a sail): head, leech, luff
- (molecular domain): head, cleft, neck
- (infantry): horse
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: futu
Translations
See also
- pedal, relating to the foot
Verb
foot (third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed)
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
- There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
- To walk.
- To tread.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
Derived terms
- foot the bill
Translations
References
Anagrams
- foto, ooft, toof
French
Etymology
Clipping of football.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fut/
Noun
foot m (uncountable)
- (colloquial) association football; football, soccer
Derived terms
- ballon de foot
- footeuse
- footeux
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English f?t.
Noun
foot
- Alternative form of fot
Etymology 2
From fot (noun).
Verb
foot
- Alternative form of footen
foot From the web:
- = 30.48 centimeters
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pinion
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?nj?n/
- Rhymes: -?nj?n
- Hyphenation: pin?ion
Etymology 1
From Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).
Noun
pinion (plural pinions)
- A wing.
- (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- A moth of the genus Lithophane.
- (obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Verb
pinion (third-person singular simple present pinions, present participle pinioning, simple past and past participle pinioned) (transitive)
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
- 1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), Konrad Heresbach (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, book iv (1586), page 169:
- They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
- 1641–2, Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure, Oxford University Press/British Academy (1984), ?ISBN (10), ?ISBN (13), page 115:
- When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.
- ibidem, page 129:
- The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.
- 1665–1667, Abraham Cowley, The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 (page 138):
- Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, / And clip or pinion her wing; / Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail / As not to cut off thy Entail.
- 1727, Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:
- The two old ducks…being pinioned, could not fly away.
- 1849, Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:
- They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.
- 1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), Konrad Heresbach (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, book iv (1586), page 169:
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- Synonym: shackle
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 80
- Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
- (transferred sense, figuratively) To restrain; to limit.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.
- 1999: Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow, scene 14
- I am pinioned by a chain of reasoning! Why else do his four friends conspire to conceal […]
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
Derived terms
- pinioned
- pinioner
- pinioning
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French pignon.
Noun
pinion (plural pinions)
- (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
- A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
Derived terms
- rack and pinion
Translations
Further reading
- pinion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pinioning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- flight feather on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “Pinion, v.” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from English billion.
Numeral
pinion
- billion
Romanian
Etymology
From French pignon.
Noun
pinion n (plural pinioane)
- gearwheel
Declension
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