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.

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(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.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

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#A distinct element.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

# A factor.

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

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*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.