foot vs pick what difference
what is difference between foot and pick
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)
- 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.
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (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.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher
- Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.
- 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
- As to his being on the foot of a servant.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
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)
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- 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?)
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
- To walk.
- To tread.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 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)
- (colloquial) association football; football, soccer
Derived terms
- ballon de foot
- footeuse
- footeux
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English fōt.
Noun
foot
- Alternative form of fot
Etymology 2
From fot (noun).
Verb
foot
- Alternative form of footen
English
Etymology
From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną, *pūkijaną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪk/, [pʰɪk]
- Homophone: pic
- Rhymes: -ɪk
Noun
pick (plural picks)
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
- France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (American football) An interception.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
- Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on ‘t.
- (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
- c. 1866, Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer
- If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks
- c. 1866, Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
Derived terms
- pickaxe
- take one’s pick
- toothpick
Translations
Verb
pick (third-person singular simple present picks, present participle picking, simple past and past participle picked)
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- Don’t pick at that scab.
- He picked his nose.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- It’s time to pick the tomatoes.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- She picked flowers in the meadow.
- to pick feathers from a fowl
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- to pick rags
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.
- 1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Chapter 43
- He was charged with attempting to pick a pocket, and they found a silver snuff-box on him,–his own, my dear, his own, for he took snuff himself, and was very fond of it.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- For the pocket in which Erskine kept this key was not the kind of pocket that Watt could pick. For it was no ordinary pocket, no, but a secret one, sewn on to the front of Erskine’s underhose.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- I’ll pick the one with the nicest name.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- He didn’t pick the googly, and was bowled.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- He picked a tune on his banjo.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- 1693, John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius
- Why stand’st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
- 1693, John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- Book of Common Prayer
- to keep my hands from picking and stealing
- Book of Common Prayer
- (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
- (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
- (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
- 1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway
- Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.
- (basketball) To screen.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mattock
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɪk
Verb
pick
- singular imperative of picken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of picken
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pyke, from Old English pīc.
Noun
pick (plural pickkès)
- a pike
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith