Meaning of foot in English

Varying combinations of muscle groups were stimulated and foot switches were used to trigger each channel at the appropriate period of the gait cycle.

The relation between the word and the foot is thus no longer a hierarchical matter.

Further research must be undertaken on maternal smoking and deformities of the foot for the possible association to be con®rmed.

More specifically, providing /p, t, k/ are foot internal, they will be glottalised.

This is a valid assumption, since the foot is considered massless and inertialess.

The final syllable can support a stressed foot since it is binary at the level of the mora.

Since conflicting alignment does not produce adjacent foot-heads, there is no opportunity for clash.

This enlarges her ability to experience and shape the near-field sounds around her body, even allowing her to shape sounds with her hands and feet.

So when the eighth child died, those who buried it inflicted some injuries under the sole of the feet, probably with thorns.

An integrated model to predict the atmospheric spread of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Others found work as foot soldiers in the private armies of wealthy notables or as independent bandits.

This constraint simply expresses the unilaterality of contact forces exerted by the ground on the foot.

The autopsy established the existence of marks produced by blows from a hard instrument on his face, legs and the soles of his feet.

Thus, a word with two feet counts as if it is two words, exhausting its phonological phrase.

Reactions are less severe in wounds to the extremities, such as the ankle and foot, which suggests the toxins moved slowly through the bloodstream.

See all examples of foot

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.