Foot vs Foundation - What's the difference?
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(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 (military, pluralonly) Foot soldiers; infantry. (jump)
* Clarendon
(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.
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(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
Recognized condition; rank; footing. (never used in the plural)
* Walpole
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.
To walk.
To tread.
(obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
* Shakespeare
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up .
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis; underbuilding.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
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Foot is a related term of foundation.
As nouns the difference between foot and foundation
is that foot is while foundation is the act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.foot
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(wikipedia foot)Noun
(feet)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.’}}
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot .
- (b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
- Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.
- 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 alsoCoordinate terms
* inch, yard, mile * (jump) head, sides * (jump) head, body * head, leech, luff * (jump) head, cleft, neck * (jump) horseSee also
* , relating to the footVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- to foot the green
- (Tickell)
- What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
- (Shakespeare)
- to foot (or foot up) an account
Derived terms
* foot the billReferences
foundation
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(en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations . University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=“Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa. }}
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
