foot vs hoof what difference

what is difference between foot and hoof

English

Alternative forms

• foote (obsolete)
• (plural): feets (dialectal); foots (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes and pous.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fo͝ot, IPA^(key): /fʊt/, [fʊt]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [fʊt̚]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [fʊt̚], [fʊtʰ], [fɵʔt]
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): [fʊt̚], [fʷʊt̚]
  • (Cape Flats; Indian South African) IPA^(key): [fɤt]
  • (Estuary) IPA^(key): [fʉ̞ʔt]
• Rhymes: -ʊt

Noun

foot (plural feet)

1. 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.

2. (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.

4. The base or bottom of anything.

5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.

7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.

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

9. (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
10. (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
12. (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
13. (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
14. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
15. (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
16. (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.
17. (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.

18. (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
19. (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
20. (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
21. (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
22. (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
    • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher

      Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.

24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.
    • May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann

      As to his being on the foot of a servant.

Usage notes

• (unit of length):
  • The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is feet, but in many contexts, foot itself may be used (“he is six foot two”). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.
  • It is sometimes abbreviated ‘, such as in tables, lists or drawings.

Synonyms

• pes

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• (unit of length): inch, yard, mile
• (end of a table): head, sides
• (bottom of a page): head, body
• (bottom edge of a sail): head, leech, luff
• (molecular domain): head, cleft, neck
• (infantry): horse

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: futu

Translations

See also

• pedal, relating to the foot

Verb

foot (third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed)

1. (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
2. (transitive) To pay (a bill).
3. To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)

     There’s time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

4. To walk.
5. To tread.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
7. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

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

Derived terms

• foot the bill

Translations

References

Anagrams

• foto, ooft, toof

French

Etymology

Clipping of football.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fut/

Noun

foot m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) association football; football, soccer

Derived terms

• ballon de foot
• footeuse
• footeux

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fōt.

Noun

foot

1. Alternative form of fot

Etymology 2

From fot (noun).

Verb

foot

1. Alternative form of footen

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoof, hof, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan ????????????????‎ (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ho͝of, ho͞of, IPA^(key): /hʊf/, /huːf/
• Rhymes: -ʊf, -uːf

Noun

hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

1. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
2. (slang) The human foot.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 110):

     He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.

3. (geometry, dated) An ungula.

Derived terms

Related terms

• hoofed

Translations

Verb

hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)

1. To trample with hooves.
2. (colloquial) To walk.
3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
4. (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

   Synonym: boot

Derived terms

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoofd, Middle Dutch hovet, from Old Dutch hōvit, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą. Doublet of sjef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦʊə̯f/

Noun

hoof (plural hoofde)

1. head

Derived terms

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

Noun

hoof m

1. garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)

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