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- foot [fυt] [fut]
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- 1. noun 脚，足
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2.
noun
略似脚（或足）的东西；尤指（事物的）基部，底部，底座
- 3. noun 最低部，最下部；末端
- 4. noun （行列等的）末尾，末位
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5.
noun
（缝纫机的）压脚板
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6.
noun
[zoology]
（软体动物上的）跗节
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7.
noun
（桌子、台子等的）脚；（床、坟墓等）放脚的一头（或下端）
- at the foot of the table
- 在桌脚
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8.
noun
袜脚
- 9. noun 用做单数和复数，英尺[=12英寸，符号`（如10`）；跟在数字后（50 foot of lumber 50英尺木材）和通常用于定语（a six- foot man身高6英尺的人）复数常作 foot]
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10.
noun
[England]
[总称]步兵（部队）
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11.
noun
（液体的）沉淀物，渣滓[通常用于复]
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12.
noun
（诗的）音步
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13.
vi.
跳舞
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14.
vi.
步行[除在短语foot it外现罕]
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15.
vi.
（帆船）行驶，行进
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16.
vt.
走在…之上，在…上走，跑在…上；步行；跳（舞）
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17.
vt.
制（或修补）（袜）脚
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18.
vt.
加，结算；总计，共计，合计（常与up连用）
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19.
vt.
[American English]
[verbal]
付（费用、经费等）
- to foot the bill
- 付帐
Collins English-English Dictionary
- foot [fυt]
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1.
n
the part of the vertebrate leg below the ankle joint that is in contact with the ground during standing and walking
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2.
n
a unit of length equal to one third of a yard or 12 inches. 1 Imperial foot is equivalent to 0.3048 metre ft
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3.
n
any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates, including molluscs
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4.
n
[botany]
the lower part of some plant structures, as of a developing moss sporophyte embedded in the parental tissue
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5.
n
any of various units of length used at different times and places, typically about 10 per cent greater than the Imperial foot
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6.
n
any part resembling a foot in form or function
- the foot of a chair
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7.
n
the lower part of something; base; bottom
- the foot of the page
- the foot of a hill
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8.
n
the end of a series or group
- the foot of the list
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9.
n
manner of walking or moving; tread; step
- a heavy foot
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10.
n
infantry, esp in the British army
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11.
n
(as modifier)
- a foot soldier
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12.
n
any of various attachments on a sewing machine that hold the fabric in position, such as a presser foot for ordinary sewing and a zipper foot
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13.
n
[music]
a unit used in classifying organ pipes according to their pitch, in terms of the length of an equivalent column of air
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14.
n
this unit applied to stops and registers on other instruments
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15.
n
[printing]
the margin at the bottom of a page
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16.
n
the undersurface of a piece of type
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17.
n
[prosody]
a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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18.
vb
to dance to music (esp in the phrase foot it)
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19.
vt.
[tr]
to walk over or set foot on; traverse (esp in the phrase foot it)
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20.
vt.
[tr]
to pay the entire cost of (esp in the phrase foot the bill)
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21.
vt.
[
usually foll by up] [archaic or dialect] to add up -
22.
vt.
See also feet foots
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23.
vt.
[Etymology]
Old English f
o t; related to Old Norse fo tr, Gothic fo tus, Old High German fuoz, Latin pe s, Greek pous, Sanskrit pad -
24.
adj
[Usage]
In front of another noun, the plural for the unit of length is foot: a 20-foot putt; his 70-foot ketch. Foot can also be used instead of feet when mentioning a quantity and in front of words like tall: four foot of snow; he is at least six foot tall
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1.
n
the part of the vertebrate leg below the ankle joint that is in contact with the ground during standing and walking
Examples
- arch of the foot
- 足底弓，跖弓 → arch
- the ball of the foot
- 拇指 → ball
- the foot of a page
- 一页的下端 → foot
- go to the foot of the line
- 走到排尾(或行列的末尾) → foot
- at the foot of the table
- 在桌脚 → foot
- to foot the bill
- 付帐 → foot
- a foot long
- 一英尺长的 → long
- use your other foot
- 用你另一只脚 → other
- a foot rest
- 搁脚板 → rest
- to set foot on land
- 使脚着地 → set
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