Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

    пинатьpinatʹ, пнутьpnutʹ

  2. (transitive)To pay (a bill).

    bezahlen

    pay for something

  3. To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

  4. To walk.

    walk

  5. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).

  6. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

    to foot (or foot up) an account

    add a column of numbers

  7. (Ireland, transitive)To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.

  8. (archaic)To set foot on; to walk on.

  9. (obsolete)To set on foot; to establish; to land.

Examples

2233 sentences
  1. Tom goes to school on foot.

    Том ходить до школи пішки. — deniko

    ruТом ходит в школу пешком. — marafon

    deTom geht zu Fuß zur Schule. — Zaghawa

  2. I go to school on foot.

    Я ходжу до школи пішки. — Internecivus

    deIch gehe zu Fuß zur Schule. — MUIRIEL

  3. He goes to school on foot.

    Він йде до школи пішки. — deniko

    ruОн ходит в школу пешком. — sharptoothed

    deEr geht zu Fuß in die Schule. — Esperantostern

  4. He is almost six feet tall.

    Він майже шість футів на зріст. — uaspeaker

    ruОн почти шести футов росту. — Alexword

    deEr ist fast sechs Fuß groß. — MUIRIEL

  5. Tom helped Mary to her feet.

    Том допоміг Мері піднятися на ноги. — deniko

    ruТом помог Мэри подняться на ноги. — Robertpaulson

    deTom half Maria beim Aufstehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
kick:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
pay:

Origin

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt,

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.

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Forms

foots, footing, footed, footed
Base formfoot · to foot
3rd person singularfoots
Present participlefooting
Past simplefooted
Past participlefooted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfoot
he, she, itfoots

Past simpleLesson

all personsfooted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave footed
he, she, ithas footed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill foot

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfooter

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on my foot
  • six feet tall
  • my feet are
  • to his feet
  • go on foot
  • his left foot
  • on his feet
  • feet tall
  • six feet
  • got cold feet
  • put his foot
  • at the foot

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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