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Definition: FEET |
FEETNoun1. Fact; performance. Noun plural1. See Foot. Plural1. Of Foot |
Date "FEET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Part of the base of a robot which enables it to move from one point to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing your own feet, is omnious{sic} of despair. You will be overcome by the will and temper of another. To see others' feet, denotes that you will maintain your rights in a pleasant, but determined way, and win for yourself a place above the common walks of life. To dream that you wash your feet, denotes that you will let others take advantage of you. To dream that your feet are hurting you, portends troubles of a humiliating character, as they usually are family quarrels. To see your feet swollen and red, you will make a sudden change in your business by separating from your family. This is an evil dream, as it usually foretells scandal and sensation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Feet How are your poor feet? This was the popular street mot in the year of the Great Exhibition of London in 1862. The immense labour of walking over the exhibition broke down all but the strongest athletes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | FEET. To make feet for children's stockings; to beget children. An officer of feet; a jocular title for an officer of infantry. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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This article is about a foot as part of the human body. For foot as a unit of length see foot (unit of length). For foot as used in poetry see foot (poetry). If you were got here by searching for 'toe' and are looking for a topic in physics, you probably want to see theory of everything.
A right foot.
The feet (singular "foot") are the lower extremities of the leg, and are used by human beings for bipedal locomotion, also known as walking.
The pair foot and feet are one of seven mutated English plurals.
The structures of the human foot and hand are variations on the same basic five-digit anatomy, in common with many other vertebrates. They are also the most complex, comprising half the bones in the body.
In many animals, the parts of the body analogous to the feet and hands are often known as paws.
The medical speciality related to treatment of the feet is podiatry.
Parts of the feet:
Disorders of the feet:
- ankle
- instep
- sole
- five toes
- athlete's foot
- bunion
- callus
- plantar wart
See also
- foot fetishism
- footwear
- hosiery
- reflexology
External links
- http://www.aofas.org/educational.asp
- http://www.podiatrytoday.com/podtd/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Foot."
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A foot is a unit of length, the original measure being the length of a man's foot.The most commonly used foot today is the imperial unit, the foot currently defined to be 0.3048 meters. This unit is sometimes denoted with an apostrophe (ex. 30' = 30 feet).
The foot as a measure was used in almost all cultures. The first known standard foot measure was from Sumeria, where a definition is given in a statue of Gudea of Lagash from around 2575 BC. The imperial foot was adapted from an Egyptian measure by the Greeks, with a subsequent larger foot being adopted by the Romans.
In addition to the current standard imperial foot, there is also a slightly different U.S. survey foot, used only by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, defined as exactly 12 U.S. survey inches, approximately 30.48006 cm. (See inch for more on the survey inch.)
See also
- Historical weights and measures
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Foot (unit of length)."
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In literature, meter is a term used in the scansion of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. For instance, "iambic pentameter", "dactylic tetrameter", etc.
Greek and Latin Poetry
The metrical "feet" in the classical languages were based on the length of time taken to pronounce each syllable, which were categorized as either "long" syllables or "short" syllables. The foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes. In English poetry, feet are determined by emphasis rather than length, with stressed and unstressed syllables serving the same function as long and short syllables in classical meter.The basic unit in Greek and Latin prosody is a mora, which is defined as a single short syllable. A long syllable is equivalent to two moras. A long syllable contains either a long vowel, a diphthong, or a short vowel followed by two or more consonants. Various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable.
Technical terms in poetic meter
- caesura: A caesura (literally, a cut or cutting) refers to a particular kind of break wtihin a poetic line. In Latin and Greek meter, caesura refers to a break within a foot caused by the end of a word. In English poetry, a caesura refers to a sense of a break within a line, sometimes indicated by extra whitespace between words. Caesuras play a particularly important role in Old English poetry.
- Inversion: When a foot of poetry is reversed with respect to the general meter of a poem, it is referred to as an inversion. This term is usually only used for the first foot in a line.
- Headless: A headless meter is one where the first foot is missing its first syllable.
Disyllables
- pyrrhus or dibrach: two short syllables
- iamb: Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
- trochee or choree: A metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
- spondee: A poetic foot of two long syllables
Trisyllables
- tribrach: three short syllables
- anapest: A poetic foot of two short syllables followed by a long one.
- amphibrach: short-long-short
- bacchius: short-long-long
- dactyl: A poetical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented
- amphimacer or cretic: long-short-long
- antibacchius: long-long-short
- molossus: long-long-long
Tetrasyllables
The most important Classical metre is the dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer and Vergil. This form uses verses of six feet. The first four syllables are dactyls, but can be spondees. The fifth syllable is always a dactyl. The sixth is either a spondee or a trochee. The initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic "beat" of the verse. There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot. The opening line of the Æneid is a typical line of dactylic hexameter:
- tetrabrach or proceleusmatic: short-short-short-short
- quartus paeon: short-short-short-long
- tertius paeon: short-short-long-short
- minor ionic, or double iamb: short-short-long-long
- secundus paeon: short-long-short-short
- diamb: short-long-short-long
- antispast: short-long-long-short
- first epitrite: short-long-long-long
- primus paeon: long-short-short-short
- choriamb: long-short-short-long
- ditrochee: long-short-long-short
- second epitrite: long-short-long-long
- major ionic: long-long-short-short
- third epitrite: long-long-short-long
- fourth epitrite: long-long-long-short
- dispondee: long-long-long-long
/ x x,/ x x,/ || x,/ x, / x x, / x Arma virumque canô, Trôjæ quî prîmus ab ôrîs
The first and second feet are dactyls; their vowels are grammatically short, but long in poetry because both are followed by two consonants. The third and fourth feet are spondees, with two long vowels, one on either side of the caesura. The fifth foot is a dactyl, as it must be, with the ictus this time falling on a grammatically long vowel. The final foot is a spondee with two grammatically long vowels.
- ("I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy. . . ")
The dactylic hexameter was imitated in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Evangeline:
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.Also important in Greek and Latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. This was a line of verse, made up of two equal parts, each of which contains two dactyls followed by a long syllable. Spondees can take the place of the dactyls in the first half, but never in the second. The long syllable at the close of the first half of the verse always ends a word, giving rise to a caesura.
Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation. Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world. An example from Ovid's Tristia:
/ x x / x / x / x / x x / x Vergilium vîdî tantum, nec amâra Tibullô / x x / x x/ | / x x / x x / Tempus amîcitiae fâta dedêre meae.
The Greeks and Romans also used a number of lyric meters, which were typically used for shorter poems than elegiacs or hexameter. One important line was called the hendecasyllabic, a line of eleven syllables. This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form. A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure: two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees. In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "Adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee. This is the form of Catullus 51:
- ("I only saw Vergil, greedy Fate gave Tibullus no time for me.")
/ x / x / x x/ x / x Ille mi par esse deo videtur; / x / x / x x / x / x ille, si fas est, superare divos, / x / x / x x / x / x qui sedens adversus identidem te / x x / x spectat et audit. . .
The Sapphic stanza was imitated in English by Swinburne in a poem he simply called Sapphics:
- ("He seems to me to be like a god; if it is permitted, he seems above the gods, he who sitting across from you gazes at you and listens to you.")
Saw the white implacable Aphrodite, Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled Shine as fire of sunset on western waters; Saw the reluctant. . .
English Poetry
Most English meter is classified according to the same system as Classical meter with an important difference: stressed and unstressed syllables take the place of long and short syllables. The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, five iambic feet per line. The verse portions of Shakespeare's plays, John Milton's Paradise Lost, most sonnets, and much else besides in English are written in iambic pentameter. A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect.Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes. This is the meter of most of the Border and Scots or English ballads, and a great many hymns, such as Amazing Grace:
Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see.but perhaps the poet who put this form to best use was Emily Dickinson:
Great streets of silence led away To neighborhoods of pause; Here was no notice — no dissent — No universe — no laws.Old English poetry has a different metrical system. In Old English poetry, each line must contain four fully stressed syllables, which often alliterate. The unstressed syllables are less important. Old English poetry is an example of the alliterative verse found in most of the older Germanic languages.
French Poetry
In French poetry, meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line. A silent 'e' counts as a syllable, except at the end of a line. The most frequently encountered meter in French is a line of six feet called the alexandrine.
Spanish Poetry
In Spanish poetry, meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line. Syllables in Spanish metrics are determined by consonant breaks, not word boundaries, so a single syllable may include multiple words. For example, the line De armas y hombres canto consists of 6 syllables: "De ar" "mas" "y hom" "bres" "can" "to."Some common meters in Spanish verse are:
See also: Alexandrine, Dactylic hexameter, Elegiac couplet, Hendecasyllable, Heroic couplet, Iambic pentameter
- Heptasyllable: A line consisting of seven syllables.
- Octosyllable: A line consisting of eight syllables. This meter is commonly used in romances, narrative poems similar to English ballads.
- Hendecasyllable: A line consisting of eleven syllables. This meter plays a similar role to pentameter in English verse. It is commonly used in sonnets, among other things.
- Alexandrines: A line consisting of twelve syllables. This is frequently used in epic poetry.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meter (poetry)."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Vehicle; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters. |
Lowness | Molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FEET |
| English words defined with "FEET": calves' feet ♦ pigs' feet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FEET": Board Feet ♦ cubic feet per second ♦ Day-Second Feet ♦ feet first entry ♦ Lie hath no Feet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FEET": Upher. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) She can suck a golf ball through twenty feet of garden hose (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about, he turned his tail, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Yankee Doodle Floppy Disk, this is Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake, checking in at 700 feet, request permission to land (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) | |
Lyrics | Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them; (God Shuffled His Feet; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Right at your feet (World At Your Feet; performing artist: Fabian) And your feet flyin{ up in the air ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) But I'm back on my feet and eager to be what you wanted (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply) | |
Clever | The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. (references; author: Japanese Proverb) 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling. (references; author: unknown) If your feet smell and your nose runs, you've been made upside-down. (references; author: unknown) I used to cry, for I had no shoes to wear--until I saw a man with no feet. (references; author: unknown) Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cold Feet (1973) 000 Feet Horror at 37 (1973) The World at Their Feet (1970) Flying Feet (1969) Feet Foremost (1968) | |
Song Titles | Happy Feet (performing artist: Joanie Bartels) When I'm Back On My Feet Again (performing artist: Michael Bolton) Tiger Feet (performing artist: Mud) | |
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 | Three drawings of individuals checking themselves during a skin self exam. First is a man standing, examing his back in a mirror; second, a woman sitting on stool examing her feet; third, woman checking face in hand mirror. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (artist). |  | Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HBV) which occurs in human warts. Warts on the hands and feet have never been known to progress to cancer. However, after many years cervical warts can become cancerous. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots, and can appear on both the palms of the hands as well as on the plantar surface (bottom) of the feet. Credit: CDC. |  | This patient had an extensive papulosquamous rash that developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC. |
 | Akpatok Island lies in Ungava Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Accessible only by air, Akpatok Island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs that soar 500 to 800 feet (150 to 243km) above the sea surface. The island is an important sanctuary for cliff-nesting seabirds. Numerous ice floes around the island attract walrus and whales, making Akpatok a traditional hunting ground for native Inuit people. Credit: NASA. |  | The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below. Credit: NASA. |
 | Large sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus. Bears were measured and tagged for future study. Large padded feet for traction on the ice. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | When the ground sea is running Spray flying 50 feet after waves crash into rocks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tide gauge at Knik Harbor showing range of tide Over 30 feet of tide Party of Eoline Hand. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Photo #13 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Angel feet" by Erica Hasenjager Commentary: "Old metairie cemetary, new orleans. Taken january 17th 2003." | "Female Male feet" by Robert Beliczki Commentary: "This is a member of a exhibition called "Experiment with scanner" photoes made by a flatbed scanner: closeup all sex feet ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. |
Emiliano Zapata | Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. |
Japanese Proverb | The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. |
John Heywood | The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. |
Joseph Joubert | One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. |
Jules Renard | A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. |
Louis XVIII | A king should die on his feet. |
Sir P. Sidney | Commonly they whose tongue is their weapon, use their feet for defense. |
Voltaire | The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. (reference) |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Not the curtains at his feet, nor the curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius could see in the twilight their livid faces, their frightful bonnets, their tattered skirts, and their naked feet. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He laid his book on the counter and passed out, his wellshod feet sounding flatly on the floor |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The two men walked in silence and smelled the dust their feet kicked into the air. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I can remember when it was a foot or two lower, and also when it was at least five feet higher, than when I lived by it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Their feet are whitish. (references) | |
If your feet are cold at night wear socks. (references) | ||
If possible, locate them 100 feet or more from your house. (references) | ||
Business | They can also house inflatable boats (dinguies) up to 12 feet in length. (references) | |
Their products are used for people with high-risk feet such as diabetes, arthritis, amputations, birth defects, and traumatic injuries. (references) | ||
Puerto Madero Este is a $300 million project including one million square feet of office space, housing, a shopping mall and 19 movie theatres. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Turkey | Timur, who was arrested and detained for a day in May 2000, alleges that he was beaten on the soles of his feet while in detention. (references) |
Gambia | He claimed that members of the Radio Gambia staff misrepresented his speeches in their news bulletins, and he warned that anybody "bent on disturbing the peace and stability of the nation will be buried 6 feet deep". (references) | |
Hong Kong | Although numerous demonstrations took place, including demonstrations by hundreds of local and foreign Falun Gong practitioners, designated protest zones were 975 feet from the conference venue and mostly out of sight and earshot of the forum participants. (references) | |
Economic History | Angola | Elevations generally range from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. (references) |
Japan | Japan's highest mountain is world famous Mt. Fuji (12,385 feet). (references) | |
Vietnam | Vietnam has an estimated 6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | One inmate had feces on his body and infected wounds on his legs and feet. (references) |
Argentina | The boys had been shot multiple times and were found with their hands and feet tied. (references) | |
Bolivia | The security forces, following training doctrine, then fired at the protesters' feet. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The tax rises to $100,000 for casinos of 5,000-10,000 square feet. (references) |
BAHRAIN | Bahrain's natural gas production is about 1.11 billion cubic feet per day. (references) | |
THE BAHAMAS | The basic tax was reduced from $200,000 to $50,000 for casinos with floor space of less than 5,000 square feet. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | An additional 40,000 square feet was recently completed and plans are being made to add an additional 63,000 square feet. (references) |
Ireland | A few Irish measurements continue to be used such as the Irish plantation acre equal to 7,840 square yards and the Irish mile equal to 6,720 feet. (references) | |
Travel | Barbados | Runway: L 6,200 feet x W 150 feet. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nepal | To date, approximately 1,000 heads of household have been provided with up to .335 acres of land and 75 cubic feet of timber to build houses. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | We need to let those who repulse us have their say alongside those whose speeches make us rise to our feet in applause. |
Mattie Stepanek | One day I went into the room of my mother, Ms. Lillian Carter. She was lying down on her bed in her room. I propped my feet up on her bed and I said, Miss Lillian, dear mommy, I want to run for president of the United States of America. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Yeah. As I said, it's a running start, but the time cell is probably maybe eight feet away from the actual block where you start off from. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Progress may be slow--measured in inches and feet, not miles--but we will progress. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But I am persuaded that the real credit belongs to the people who sent us here, who pay our salaries, who hold our feet to the fire. |
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| "FEET" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FEET" is used about 14,085 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 14,085 | 650 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Just For Feet, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "FEET": a thousand feet high ♦ alight on one's feet ♦ at the feet of ♦ be unsteady on one's feet ♦ bring to his feet ♦ brought up at the feet of Gamaliel ♦ calves' feet ♦ carry smb. off his feet ♦ cat's feet ♦ chafed feet ♦ cold feet ♦ crown' feet ♦ crows feet ♦ crow's feet ♦ cut the ground from under one's feet ♦ cut the ground from under smb.'s feet ♦ dabble one's feet ♦ dabble one's feet in water ♦ drag one's feet ♦ drag one's feet over smth. ♦ fall on one's feet ♦ feet first entry ♦ feet of beef ♦ feet of clay ♦ find one's feet ♦ flat feet ♦ foot on one's feet ♦ get cold feet ♦ get on one's feet ♦ gout in the feet ♦ grovel at smb.'s feet ♦ have cold feet ♦ have flat feet ♦ have one's feet on the ground ♦ have the ball at one's feet ♦ he always lands on his feet ♦ his feet turn outwards ♦ jump to one's feet ♦ keep one's feet ♦ kick with both hind feet ♦ land on one's feet ♦ lay at one's feet ♦ let the grass grow under one's feet ♦ lick the feet of ♦ lie at smb.'s feet ♦ not to let the grass grow under one's feet ♦ on one's feet ♦ one on his feet ♦ patter of feet ♦ patter of horses feet ♦ pigs' feet ♦ place for the feet in bed ♦ put one on his feet ♦ put one's feet down ♦ reaching to the feet ♦ Reflex Zone Therapy of the Feet ♦ regain one's feet ♦ remain on one's feet ♦ rush smb. off one's feet ♦ satellite feet ♦ scramble to one's feet ♦ scrape one's feet ♦ scuff one's feet ♦ set one on his feet ♦ set smb. on his feet ♦ shake off the dust of one's feet ♦ shuffle one's feet ♦ sit at smb.'s feet ♦ six feet in width ♦ sore feet ♦ spring to one's feet ♦ square feet ♦ start to one's feet ♦ sweep smb. off his feet ♦ ten feet ♦ the chasm yawned at his feet ♦ throw oneself at the feet of ♦ To lift up the feet ♦ trampling feet ♦ walk smb. off his feet ♦ warm one's feet near the fire ♦ with unshod feet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FEET": feet-breaking, feet-five, feet-flat-on-the-floor, feet-high, feet-'i, feet-off, feet-on-the-ground, feet-per-minute, feet-planted, feet-plus, feet-rhyming, feet-ten. | |
Ending with "FEET": thirty-feet. | |
Containing "FEET": eight-feet-deep, five-feet-seven, five-feet-three-inch, four-feet-seven-inches, praise-my-soul-the-king-of-heaven-to-his-feet-thy-tribute, seven-feet-tall, six-feet-six, six-feet-two, ten-feet-deep, ten-feet-high, thirty-feet-wide, two-feet-thick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FEET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thek këmbët (warm one's feet near the fire), ruaj drejtpeshim (keep one's balance, keep one's feet, poise), rrudha në anët e syve (crow's feet), merr këmbët (find one's feet), marr veten (find one's feet, get over), gjej rrugë dalje të mirë nga një gjëndje e vështirë (fall on one's feet). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوارع البقر (feet of beef), محظوظ عند حل مشكلة ما (fall on one's feet), خطوط متجعدة حول العينين (crow's feet), رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), دعمه (set smb. on his feet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стъпвам на крака (find one's feet), оставам прав (remain on one's feet), метална топка с шипове (crow's feet), задържам се (last, persist, regain one's feet, stay on), бръчки около окото (crow's feet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 脚 (FOOT). (various references) | |
Czech | zakroèit (intercede, intervene, proceed, put one's feet down), vzít komu pùdu pod nohama (cut the ground from under smb.'s feet), stát pevnì na zemi (have one's feet on the ground), rozkoukat se (find one's feet), postavit se na nohy (fall on one's feet), plazit se před kým (grovel at smb.'s feet), padat komu k nohám (grovel at smb.'s feet), neztrácet èas (not to let the grass grow under one's feet), nelenit (not to let the grass grow under one's feet), namáhavì se zvednout (scramble to one's feet), mít ploché nohy (have flat feet), ležet komu u nohou (lie at smb.'s feet), dopadnout na všechny ètyři (foot on one's feet), dìlat co na dlouhé lokty (drag one's feet over smth.), šoupat nohama (scrape one's feet, scuff one's feet, shuffle). (various references) | |
Danish | fødder (fifth quarter), underben (leg), klove (fifth quarter). (various references) | |
Dutch | voeten, poten (plant), onderpoten. (various references) | |
Finnish | jalat, alusta (base, basis, bed, bench, chassis, coaster, easel, foundation, mat, mount, stand, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
French | ft, pieds, pattes, péniches. (various references) | |
German | Füße, Fuß (base, foot, heel, leg, paw, root). (various references) | |
Greek | πόδια (pinafore). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרגלות (bottom, place for the feet in bed), לשמור על עשתונותיו (keep one's feet), להיות בר מזל (be lucky, fall on one's feet), קמטים בצדי העינים (crow's feet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | versláb (foot), talpazat (bearing, foot, mounting, support), talp (clump, floor, foot, mounting, patten, rim, sole, stem), lábfej (foot, hand, peg), lábazat (foot, footing, leg, plinth), láb (dog, foot, hoof, hooves, leg, paw, props, stand, toe), gyalogság (foot, infantry), alsó rész (downside, foot, underside), 48 cm (foot), 30 (foot). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terseok-seok (drag one's feet). (various references) | |
Italian | piedi (foot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フィート (foot). (various references) | |
Korean | 보병 (FOOT, FT, infantry). (various references) | |
Manx | trie oashyragh (stocking feet), meydlagh (poor on feet, slow-moving), cassyn scammylagh (webbed feet), cassyn craitnagh (webbed feet). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fot (foot, paw), føtter. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pés (trotter). (various references) | |
Romanian | picioare (pegs, pettitoes, pin, prop, stump), labe a piciorului. (various references) | |
Russian | фут;нога (foot), мн. ч. от foot. (various references) | |
Scottish | stàirn (a particle, noise, noise such as the tread of horses' feet, violent), ris (his feet exposed : leig, towards; see <A HREF="mf10.html#ri">ri</A>; precedes the art.), post (letter carrier, pillar, post, va. tramp with the feet), lurcach (lame in the feet), gadair (tie the fore feet of a horse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stati na noge (find one's feet), pridići (get on one's feet, tip), ostati na nogama (remain on one's feet), kolabirati (fall on one's feet), borice oko očiju (crow's feet), žičana mreža (crow's feet). (various references) | |
Sotho | maoto. (various references) | |
Spanish | pies, patas (buddy buddy, pins), los pies. (various references) | |
Swedish | fot (foot, footing, heel, hoof, leg, paw, stand, stem), fötter (plates of meat), bas (base, basis, bass, basso, boss, foreman, foundation, gaffer, top dog). (various references) | |
Thai | เท้า (foot). (various references) | |
Tswana | dinao. (various references) | |
Turkish | foot ölçüsü (footage), ayaklar (trilbies, trotters), adımlar (steps). (various references) | |
Turkmen | syзramak (splash, spray, stand on someone's feet suddenly (ю)), namartlamak (be afraid, get cold feet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | махати ногами у воді (dabble one's feet in water), бути чиїмсь учнем (sit at smb.'s feet). (various references) | |
Welsh | pystylad (stamp with the feet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tote eipen o basileuV toiV diakonoiV dhsanteV autou podaV kai ceiraV arate auton kai ekbalete eiV to skotoV to exwteron ekei estai o klauqmoV kai o brugmoV twn odontwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc dixit rex ministris ligatis pedibus eius et manibus mittite eum in tenebras exteriores ibi erit fletus et stridor dentium |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hine on þa uttren þeostran. þær beoð wop& toðe gristbitung. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne the kyng bad hise mynystris, Bynde hym bothe hondis and feet, and sende ye him in to vtmer derknessis; there schal be wepyng and grentyng of teeth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then sayde the kynge to his ministers: take and bynde hym hand and fote and caste hym into vtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang hari miingon sa iyang mga sulogoon, `Gapusa ninyo siya sa tiil ug kamot, ug ilabay ninyo siya ngadto sa labawng kangitngitan sa gowa; didto ang mga tawo managpanghilak ug managkagot sa ilang mga ngipon.` |
| Croatian | Tada kralj reèe poslužiteljima: 'Svežite mu ruke i noge i bacite ga van u tamu, gdje æe biti plaè i škrgut zubi.' |
| Danish | Da sagde Kongen til Tjenerne: Binder Fødder og Hænder på ham, og kaster ham ud i Mørket udenfor; der skal der være Gråd og Tænders Gnidsel. |
| Dutch | Toen zeide de koning tot de dienaars: Bindt zijn handen en voeten, neemt hem weg, en werpt hem uit in de buitenste duisternis; daar zal zijn wening en knersing der tanden. |
| Finnish | Silloin kuningas sanoi palvelijoille: `Sitokaa hänen jalkansa ja kätensä ja heittäkää hänet ulos pimeyteen`. Siellä on oleva itku ja hammasten kiristys. |
| German | Da sprach der König zu seinen Dienern: Bindet ihm Hände und Füße und werfet ihn in die Finsternis hinaus! da wird sein Heulen und Zähneklappen. |
| Hungarian | Akkor monda a király a szolgáknak: Kötözzétek meg a lábait és kezeit, és vigyétek és vessétek õt a külsõ sötétségre; ott lészen sírás és fogcsikorgatás. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu raja itu berkata kepada pelayan-pelayannya, 'Ikat kaki dan tangan orang ini, dan buang dia ke luar ke tempat yang gelap. Di sana akan ada tangis dan derita.'" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka titah baginda itu kepada hambanya: Ikatlah kaki tangannya, buangkan ke dalam gelap yang di luar; di sanalah kelak tangisan dan kertak gigi. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eisht dooyrt y ree rish ny sharvaantyn, Kiangle-jee eh laue as cass, as gow-jee eh ersooyl, as tilg-jee eh ayns y dorraghys sodjey-mooie: shen-y-raad vees keayney as snaggeraght feeacklyn. |
| Maori | Na ka mea te kingi ki nga kaimahi, Herea ona ringa, ona waewae, kawea atu, maka ki te pouri i waho rawa; ko te wahi tera o te tangi, o te tetea o nga niho. |
| Norwegian | Da sa kongen til tjenerne: Bind hender og føtter på ham og kast ham ut i mørket utenfor! Der skal være gråt og tenners gnidsel. |
| Portuguese | Ordenou então o rei aos servos: Amarrai-o de pés e mãos, e lançai-o nas trevas exteriores; ali haverá choro e ranger de dentes. |
| Rumanian | Atunci kmpqratul a zis slujitorilor sqi: ,Legayi -i mknile wi picioarele, wi luayi -l wi aruncayi -l kn kntunerecul de afarq; acolo va fi plknsul wi scrkwnirea dinyilor. |
| Russian | фПЗДБ УЛБЪБМ ГБТШ УМХЗБН: УЧСЪБЧ ЕНХ ТХЛЙ Й ОПЗЙ, ЧПЪШНЙФЕ ЕЗП Й ВТПУШФЕ ЧП ФШНХ ЧОЕЫОАА; ФБН ВХДЕФ РМБЮ Й УЛТЕЦЕФ ЪХВПЧ; |
| Shuar | Nuyá uunt akupin yurumka ajaaman timiai "Achikrum nawenmasha uwejnumsha jinkiarum aa Jíikrum kiritniunam ajapatarum. Nuisha ti uutin ti Wáitsatin átatui" timiai. |
| Spanish | Entonces el rey dijo a los que servían: "Atadle los pies y las manos y echadle en las tinieblas de afuera." Allí habrá llanto y crujir de dientes; |
| Swahili | Hapo mfalme akawaambia watumishi, `Mfungeni miguu na mikono mkamtupe nje gizani; huko atalia na kusaga meno."` |
| Swedish | Då sade konungen till tjänarna: 'Gripen honom vid händer och fötter, och kasten honom ut i mörkret härutanför.' Där skall vara gråt och tandagnisslan. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, mohawa' -imi magau' mpo'uli' -raka pahawaa' -na: `Hilu' witi' -na, hoo' pale-na, petadi-i hi mali-na rala kabengia-na! Hi ria-i mpai' geo' pai' ntodohaka.'" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FEET": feetfirst, feetless. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FEET": bigfeet, clubfeet, crowfeet, flatfeet, forefeet, splayfeet, tenderfeet, webfeet. (additional references) | |
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"FEET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afete, eett, efato, efeat, efeet, efen, efeo, efet, efete, fabet, fanet, Fayot, fayte, fe, feah, feart, feash, feath, featy, febe, Febem, fect, feeb, feec, feeg, feei, Feek, feep, feer, feesh, feest, feeta, feete, feets, feety, feev, feez, fegt, Feiea, feigt, feit, feiy, Fekete, fenet, fent, fentt, fepe, feret, fert, feth, fe-ti, fett, fetu, feuo, fewt, fext, feye, feyest, ffet, fgeet, fibet, Fiet, fiete, Fiott, fiset, fivet, fmet, foet, fouet, freet, fyta, fyte, fytz, Ufegeat, zeet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FEET" (pronounced fē"t) |
| 3 | f ē" t | defeat, effete, feat. |
| 2 | -ē" t | backseat, beat, beet, cheat, cleat, compete, complete, conceit, concrete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, downbeat, eat, elite, excrete, fleet, greet, heat, incomplete, indiscreet, leet, Marguerite, meat, meet, mete, mistreat, neat, offbeat, peat, petite, pleat, receipt, repeat, replete, retreat, seat, secrete, sheet, Skeet, sleet, Street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, unseat, wheat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fete. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-t" | |
-1 letter: eft, fee, fet, tee. | |
-2 letters: ef, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-t" | |
+1 letter: feted, fetes, fleet. | |
+2 letters: afreet, befret, bereft, defeat, defect, defter, effect, effete, facete, feater, felted, ferret, fester, fetted, fetter, fettle, fewest, feyest, fleets, freest, hefted, hefter, lefter, refect, refelt, reflet, refute, telfer, tepefy, toffee. | |
+3 letters: afreets, befrets, benefit, bigfeet, clefted, deafest, defeats, defects, deflate, deflect, deftest, draftee, effects, faceted, feasted, feaster, featest, feather, feature, feedlot, feinted, fellate, fellest, felsite, fermate, ferment, ferrate, ferrets, ferrety, ferrite, fertile, fervent, festers, festive, fetched, fetcher, fetches, fetters, fettled, fettles, fetuses, fifteen, fileted, fitchee, fleeted, fleeter, fleetly, fouette, foveate, freshet, fretted, fretter, fumette, hefters, heftier, leaflet, leftest, lefties, liefest, mofette, oftener, outfeel, perfect, prefect, ratafee, refects, reflate, reflect, reflets, refuted, refuter, refutes, teenful, telfers, terefah, thereof, toffees, webfeet. | |
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