Word Meanings - FOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes. (more info) akin to D. voet, OHG. fuoz, G. fuss, Icel. f, Sw. fot,

Additional info about word: FOOT

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes. (more info) akin to D. voet, OHG. fuoz, G. fuss, Icel. f, Sw. fot, Dan. fod, Goth. f, L. pes, Gr. pad, Icel. fet step, pace measure of a foot, feta to step, find one's way. *77, 250. Cf. Antipodes, Cap-a-pie, Expedient, Fet to fetch, Fetlock, Fetter, Pawn a piece in chess,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOOT)

• Bottom
• Deep
• profound
• floor
• groundwork
• depth
• ground
• foot
• Start
• Set out
• initiate
• begin
• set on foot
• rouse

Related words: (words related to FOOT)

• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• BEGIN
  beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• FLOORAGE
  Floor space.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• INITIATE
  1. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon. How are changes of this sort to be initiated I. Taylor. 2. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments
• FLOOR
  That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished,
• DEPTHLESS
  1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native