Feet vs Imped - What's the difference?
feet | imped |
(foot).
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
A creature without feet.
* 1861 : in:
* 1894 : The Reverend Richard Owen (’s grandson), The Life of Richard Owen , volume 2, page 119
Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping.
As nouns the difference between feet and imped
is that feet is (foot) while imped is a creature without feet.As an adjective imped is
engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping.feet
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * crow's-feet * cubic feet * drag one's feet * fall on one's feet * fall over one's feet * feet first * feet of clay * feet first * feetless * feetlong * find one's feet * flat feet * get cold feet * get one's feet wet * have one's feet on the ground * hold someone's feet to the fire * itchy feet * land on one's feet * metric feet * on one's feet * out on one's feet * put one's feet up * puppy feet * quick on his feet * six feet under * stand on one's own two feet * stocking-feet * think on one's feet * two left feet * vote with one's feet * washing of feet * See alsoStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----imped
English
Etymology 1
Coined on Latinate roots (.Noun
(en noun)- Aristotle had divided the group into bipeds, quadrupeds and impeds .
References
* “imped, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)References
* “imped, ppl. a.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 English calques