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foot
A	noun
	1	foot
			travel by foot; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚motion; movement; move ╚travel; traveling; travelling ╚walk ╚foot
	2	animal foot, foot
			a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚part; piece ╚body part ╚external body part ╚extremity; appendage; member ╚vertebrate foot; pedal extremity ╚animal foot, foot ╚paw ╚hindfoot ╚forefoot ╚trotter ╚webfoot ╚bird's foot ╚hoof ╚fossorial foot
	3	foot, invertebrate foot
			any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚part; piece ╚body part ╚organ ╚foot, invertebrate foot ╚tube foot
	4	foot
			a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚instrumentality; instrumentation ╚device ╚support ╚foot
	5	foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
			lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚structure; construction ╚supporting structure ╚support ╚foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure ╚raft foundation ╚bed
	6	foot, human foot, pes
			the foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚part; piece ╚body part ╚external body part ╚extremity; appendage; member ╚vertebrate foot; pedal extremity ╚foot, human foot, pes ╚flatfoot; splayfoot; pes planus
	7	metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
			a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚expressive style; style ╚writing style; literary genre; genre ╚form ╚versification ╚poetic rhythm; rhythmic pattern; prosody ╚meter; metre; measure; beat; cadence ╚metrical foot, foot, metrical unit ╚pyrrhic; dibrach ╚spondee ╚trochee ╚amphibrach ╚anapest; anapaest ╚iamb; iambus ╚dactyl
	8	infantry, foot
			an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚organization; organisation ╚unit; social unit ╚military unit; military force; military group; force ╚army unit ╚infantry, foot ╚paratroops
	9	foot
			the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚region; part ╚bottom ╚foot
	10	foot
			a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚communicator ╚negotiator; negotiant; treater ╚representative ╚agent ╚secret agent; intelligence officer; intelligence agent; operative ╚foot
	11	foot, ft
			a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚linear measure; long measure ╚linear unit ╚foot, ft
B	verb
	1	foot, foot up
			add a column of numbers
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚reason ╚calculate; cipher; cypher; compute; work out; reckon; figure ╚add; add together ╚foot, foot up
	2	foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it
			walk; "let's hoof it to the disco"
		Category Tree: travel; go; move; locomote ╚walk ╚foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it
	3	foot, pick
			pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
		Category Tree: transfer ╚give ╚pay ╚foot, pick

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