Foot vs Pinion - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between foot and pinion

is that foot is to set on foot; to establish; to land while pinion is a fetter for the arm.

As nouns the difference between foot and pinion

is that foot is 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|body part|t} while pinion is a wing.

As verbs the difference between foot and pinion

is that foot is to use the foot to kick (usually a ball) while pinion is to cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.

As a proper noun Foot

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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

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

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pinion

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pignon, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A wing.

* , II.v

Therefore do nimble-pinion' d doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

* Alexander Pope

Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.

* 1839 ,

Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.

The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.

(Johnson)

Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.

* , III.xii

An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion of his wing

A moth of the genus Lithophane .

(obsolete) A fetter for the arm.

(Ainsworth)

Verb

(en verb) :; (lb)

(lb) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.

* 1577 , (Barnabe Googe) (translator), (Konrad Heresbach) (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie , book iv (1586), page 169:

They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.

* 1641–2 , Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure , (Oxford University Press)/(British Academy) (1984), ISBN 0197260292 (10), ISBN 9780197260296 (13), page 115:

When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.

* ibidem , page 129:

The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.

* 1665–7 , (Abraham Cowley), The Works of M^r Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 ( page 138):

Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, // And clip or pinion her wing; // Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail // As not to cut off thy Entail.

* 1727 , Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:

The two old ducks…being pinioned , could not fly away.

* 1849 , Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:

They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.

(lb) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding; to shackle.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned , and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}

* 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 80

Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.

#* , V.ii

Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion' d at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.

#* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX

I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.

# To bind fast to something, or together.

Derived terms

* * *

References

* “ Pinion, v.'']” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. , 1908) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) pignon.

Noun

(en noun)

The smallest gear in a gear drive train.

* 1844 ,

A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.

Derived terms

* rack and pinion English terms with transferred senses