Foot vs Cheese - What's the difference?

In countable terms the difference between foot and cheese

is that foot is a unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. {{jump|unit of length|u|co} while cheese is a piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

As a proper noun Foot

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an interjection cheese is

Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

foot
English
(wikipedia foot)
Noun
(feet)
(countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. (jump)

(countable, anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. (jump)

(uncountable, often used attributively) Travel by walking. (walking)

(countable) The base or bottom of anything. (jump)

(countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

(countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. (jump)

(countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. (jump)

(countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

(military, pluralonly) Foot soldiers; infantry. (jump)

* Clarendon

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot .

(countable, cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.

(countable, sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.

(countable, printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. (jump)

(countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. (jump)

(countable, phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.

(countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.

(countable, billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.

(countable, botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.

*

(b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

(countable, malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.

(countable, molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein. (jump)

(countable, geometry) The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.

Fundamental principle; basis; plan. (never used in the plural)

* Berkeley

Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.

Recognized condition; rank; footing. (never used in the plural)

* Walpole

As to his being on the foot of a servant.

Usage notes
* (jump) The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is (feet), but in many contexts, (term) itself may be used ("he is six foot two"). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.Rich Alderson, “Why do we say ‘30 years old’, but ‘a 30-year-old man’?”, in Mark Israel, the alt.usage.english FAQ. * It is sometimes abbreviated ' , such as in tables, lists or drawings.
Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * afoot * acre-foot * athlete's foot * best foot * Bigfoot * board foot * clubfoot * Chinese foot * cubic foot * footage * foot-and-mouth disease * football * footboard * footboy * foot brake * footbridge * footcandle * footfall * foot fault * footgear * foothill * foothold * footing * foot-in-mouth disease * foot iron * foot landraker * footlights * foot line * footlocker * footloose * foot louse * footly * footman * foot-mouth * footnote * footpad * footpath * foot-pound * foot post * footprint * foot pump * footrest * footrope * footsie * footsie-wootsies * foot soldier * footsore * footstep * footstone * footstool * foot warmer * footwear * footwell * footwork * footworn * four foot * get one's foot in the door * Hong Kong foot * immersion foot * itchy feet * Japanese foot * put one's foot in one's mouth * rabbit's foot * Roman foot * shoot oneself in the foot * six foot * square foot * start off on the wrong foot * trench foot * wrongfoot * See also
Coordinate terms
* inch, yard, mile * (jump) head, sides * (jump) head, body * head, leech, luff * (jump) head, cleft, neck * (jump) horse
See also
* , relating to the foot
Verb
(en verb)
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

To pay (a bill).

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

(Dryden)

To walk.

(Shakespeare)

To tread.

to foot the green

(Tickell)

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

* Shakespeare

What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?

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

(Shakespeare)

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

to foot (or foot up) an account

Derived terms
* foot the bill
References

Statistics
* English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words ----
cheese
English
(wikipedia cheese)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chese, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en-noun)
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or , i.e. cheesy.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.

(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

(vulgar, slang) Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

* 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia ).

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(De Quincey)

(Thackeray)

Hyponyms
* See also
Antonyms
* fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)
Derived terms
* Abertam cheese * American cheese * apple-cheese * * Asiago cheese * basket cheese * bleu cheese * blue cheese * Bonchester cheese * bread and cheese * brick cheese * Brussels' cheese * Buxton Blue cheese * Cabrales cheese * Caerphilly cheese * Caithness cheese * Camembert cheese * cauliflower cheese * chalk and cheese * Chaumes cheese * Cheddar cheese * cheese and bread * cheese-bail * cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard * cheese-borer * cheese-bowl * cheese-box * cheese-bug * cheeseburger * cheese-cement * cheesecake * cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout * cheese-cratch * cheese-crate * cheese curds * cheese-cutter, cheesecutter * cheesed, cheesed off * cheese dip * cheese dish * cheese down * cheese fingers * cheese fly * cheese grater * cheese-hake, cheese-heck * cheese-head * cheese-headed * cheese-hoop * cheese-hopper, cheesehopper * cheese-knife * cheese ladder * cheeseling * cheese-maggot * cheesemaker * cheese mite * cheese-moat * cheese-mold, cheese-mould * cheesemonger * cheese off * cheese-pale * cheese-parer * cheese-paring, cheeseparing * cheese-plate * cheese powder * cheese-press * cheeser * cheese rack/cheese-rack * cheese-ramekin * cheese-rennet * cheese-room * cheese-running * cheesery * the Cheeses * cheese-scoop * cheese skipper * cheese slaw * cheese slicer * cheese spread * cheese straw * cheese-taster * cheese-toaster * cheese-tub * cheese-vat * cheese-water * cheesewire * cheesewood * cheese-wring * cheesine * cheesing * cheesy * * Cheshire cheese * Chevington cheese * * Chihuahua cheese * cock cheese * Colby cheese * Colby-Jack cheese * Coon cheese * Cornish Yarg cheese * cotija cheese * cottage cheese * Cougar Gold cheese * cream cheese, cream-cheese * Criollo cheese * Cuba cheese * curd cheese * damson cheese, damson-cheese * Danish Blue cheese * Derby cheese * Dorset Blue Vinney cheese * Dorstone cheese * Double Gloucester cheese * Dovedale cheese * Duberry cheese * Dunlop cheese * Dutch cheese * * Edam cheese * Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese * Exmoor Blue cheese * farmer cheese, farmer's cheese * feta cheese * Gloucester cheese * goat cheese * Gouda cheese * Grana Padano cheese * grated cheese * green cheese * * hard cheese * head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese * hoop cheese * Horeb cheese * human cheese * Huntsman cheese * Idiazabal cheese * Ilchester cheese * jack cheese * * Jarlsberg cheese * Lancashire cheese * Leicester cheese * Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese * lemon cheese * Liederkranz cheese * Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese * Lincolnshire Poacher cheese * Lymeswold cheese * macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese * make butter and cheese of * make cheeses * Manchego cheese * Maytag Blue cheese * mousetrap cheese * mozzarella cheese * Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, * Nabulsi cheese * * nipcheese * * Oaxaca cheese * Oka cheese * Parmesan cheese * pepper jack cheese * pick-cheese * pimento cheese * Pinconning cheese * pizza cheese * pot cheese * processed cheese * Provel cheese * rat cheese * Red Leicester cheese * Red Windsor cheese * ricotta cheese * romano cheese * ruen cheese * sage-cheese * Sage Derby cheese * * Sakura cheese * say cheese * Shropshire Blue cheese * Single Gloucester cheese * slip cheese * smoked cheese * sour milk cheese * Stilton cheese * Stinking Bishop cheese * store cheese * string cheese * Swaledale cheese * Swiss cheese * Testouri cheese * Teviotdale cheese * Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese * tip-cheese * toad-cheese, toad's cheese * Tyrolean grey cheese * * * Waterloo cheese * Wensleydale cheese * White Stilton cheese * Yunnan cheese * Zamorano cheese
See also
* (wikipedia) * * butter * cream * milk * turophile * yogurt
Verb
(chees)
To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Interjection

(photography)

Say "cheese "! ... and there we are!

Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .
Noun
(-)
(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Derived terms
* big cheese * sub-cheese
Etymology 3

Verb
(chees)
(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Derived terms
* cheese it * cheesed off
Etymology 4
From cheesy.
Verb
(chees)
(gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

(gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)

It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.

Synonyms
* (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game) rush, zerg 1000 English basic words