Synonyms of the word

foot

• n. (countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently…
• n. (countable, anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing…
• n. (uncountable, often used attributively) Travel by walking.
• n. (countable) The base or bottom of anything.
• n. (countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
• n. (countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
• n. (countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
• n. (countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
• n. (countable, music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle…
• n. (military, collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
• n. (countable, cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
• n. (countable, sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve…
• n. (countable, printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
• n. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
• n. (countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
• n. (countable, phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine…
• n. (countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
• n. (countable, billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
• n. (countable, botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached…
• n. (countable, malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds…
• n. (countable, molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
• n. (countable, geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
• n. (uncountable) Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
• n. (uncountable) Recognized condition; rank; footing.
• v. (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
• v. (transitive) To pay (a bill).
• v. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
• v. To walk.
• v. To tread.
• v. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
• v. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
• v. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

add

• v. (transitive) To join or unite, (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase…
• v. To sum up; to put together mentally.
• v. (transitive) To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
• v. (transitive) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
• v. (transitive) To append (e,g, a statement); to say further information.
• v. (intransitive) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
• n. (video games) An additional enemy that joined the fight after the primary target.
• n. (computer science) An act or instance of adding.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bottom

• n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
• n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
• n. The buttocks or anus.
• n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
• n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
• n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
• n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A bottom quark.
• n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
• n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
• n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
• n. An abyss.
• n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
• n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
• v. To fall to the lowest point.
• v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
• v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
• v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
• v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
• adj. The lowest or last place or position.

cadence

• n. The act or state of declining or sinking.
• n. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
• n. The measure or beat of movement.
• n. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
• n. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases…
• n. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may…
• n. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
• n. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
• n. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
• n. (running) The number of steps per minute.
• n. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
• n. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
• n. (heraldry) cadency.
• n. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
• v. To give a cadence to.
• v. To give structure to.

foundation

• n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the…
• n. (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise…
• n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build,…
• n. (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing…
• n. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund;…
• n. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
• n. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and…
• n. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

ft

• abbr. foot, feet (unit of length).

fundament

• n. Foundation.
• n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
• n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

groundwork

• n. The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.

hoof

• n. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
• n. (slang) The human foot.
• n. (geometry, dated) An ungula.
• v. To trample with hooves.
• v. (colloquial) To walk.
• v. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
• v. (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield…

infantry

• n. Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external…
• n. (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical…
• n. A regiment of infantry.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

meter

• n. (always meter) A device that measures things.
• n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
• n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order…
• n. (obsolete) A poem.
• v. to measure with a metering device.
• v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
• v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things…

metre

• n. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal…
• v. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter.
• n. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
• v. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

operative

• adj. Effectual or important.
• adj. Functional, in working order.
• adj. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
• adj. Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
• adj. Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations.
• n. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
• n. A spy, secret agent, or detective.
• n. A participant in an operation.

organ

• n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
• n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
• n. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ),…
• n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
• n. A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi).
• n. (slang) The penis.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

pay

• v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
• v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
• v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
• v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
• n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
• adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
• adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

pes

• n. the foot of a human.
• n. the hoof of a quadruped.
• n. clubfoot or talipes.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

substructure

• n. The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation).
• n. The earth or gravel that railway sleepers are embedded in.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

understructure

• n. The supporting structure underneath something, such as a vehicle or bridge.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.