I.
noun
1 part of the body
ADJECTIVE
▪ left , right
▪ back , front
▪
He shifted his weight onto his back ~.
▪ dainty , little , small , tiny
▪ big , enormous
▪ narrow , wide
▪ flat
▪
He was excused military service because of his flat feet.
▪ bare
▪
It's dangerous to walk on the beach in/with bare feet.
▪ blistered , swollen
▪ broken
▪ dirty , smelly
▪ booted , stockinged
▪
the rumble of many booted feet on the bridge
▪
He padded across the room in his stockinged feet (= wearing socks but no shoes) .
▪ webbed
▪
Ducks' webbed feet help them to swim.
▪ silent
▪
He slipped across the corridor on silent feet.
▪ quick
▪
a player with quick feet and a great turn of pace
▪ leaden
▪
He walked to the examination room with leaden feet.
▪ winged ( often figurative )
▪
She flew on winged feet ( = ran fast ) up the narrow stairway.
VERB + FOOT
▪ get to , jump to , leap to , rise to , scramble to
▪
He got shakily to his feet.
▪ be on
▪
I've been on my feet all day and I need to sit down for a rest.
▪ place , plant , put
▪
I planted my feet firmly on the chair and reached up to the top window.
▪
She put her ~ down on the accelerator and the car lurched forward.
▪ lift , raise
▪
He raised his ~ off the brake.
▪ stamp , stomp
▪ tap
▪
She was tapping her ~ impatiently.
▪ swing
▪
He swung a ~ at the ball but missed completely.
▪ kick
▪ shuffle
▪ drag
▪
She dragged her feet as she reluctantly followed her parents.
▪ wipe
▪
Wipe your feet when you come in from the street.
▪ tread on ( esp. BrE )
▪
That man trod on my ~ and he didn't even apologize.
FOOT + VERB
▪ catch
▪
His ~ caught in the cable and he fell under the train.
▪ slip
▪
My ~ slipped as I was about to shoot and I missed the ball.
▪ crunch , pound , shuffle
▪
I heard feet crunching over the gravel outside the house.
▪ dangle
▪
I sat by the river with my feet dangling in the water.
▪ kick
▪
They carried him out of the room with his feet kicking.
▪ sink
▪
My feet sank deep into the mud.
▪ hit sth , touch sth
▪
He shivered as his feet touched the cold floor.
FOOT + NOUN
▪ massage
▪ injury
▪ passenger ( BrE ), soldier
▪
Foot passengers were allowed to leave the ferry before the vehicles.
▪ traffic
▪ patrol
▪
soldiers on ~ patrol
▪ pedal
PREPOSITION
▪ beneath your ~ , under your ~
▪
The snow crunched beneath her feet.
▪ from ~ to ~
▪
They looked unsure and shifted uneasily from ~ to ~.
▪ on ~
▪
The city is best explored on ~.
▪ in the/your ~
▪
He's broken several bones in his left ~.
▪ with the/your ~
▪
She kicked the ball with her right ~.
PHRASES
▪ the ball of the/your ~
▪
I squatted down to speak to the boy, balancing on the balls of my feet.
▪ from head to ~
▪
She was dressed from head to ~ in green velvet.
▪ put your feet up
▪
He likes to put his feet up and watch TV when he gets home.
▪ set ~ in sth , set ~ on sth
▪
the first European to set ~ in Australia
▪ the sole of the/your ~
▪
The soles of my feet were covered in blisters.
2 measurement
II.
verb
Foot is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bill