Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A foot or footlike part, especially the foot of a four-footed vertebrate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of peace.
  • noun A Middle English form of piece.
  • noun In anatomy and zoology:
  • noun The foot; the third and distal segment of the hind limb of a vertebrate, consisting of the tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges: the correlative of manus of the fore limb.
  • noun A foot-like part or organ; a peduncle, or base of support.
  • noun In music: Same as ground bass (which see, under bass).
  • noun Same as podatus.
  • noun In prosody, either of the two quatrains which form the first part of a sonnet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the foot of a human
  • noun the hoof of a quadruped
  • noun clubfoot or talipes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • It's part of the phrase pes Petruś pava-c traula-c.

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  • When other groups of muscles are affected at the same time, compound deformities, such as pes calcaneo-valgus, are more likely to result.

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  • Next on the menu are dosas — paper-thin Indian cr ê pes — and savory snacks known as chaat.

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  • The president soon will face a fundamental strategic choice: whether to bend to the power of larger Republican House and Senate contingents in ho pes of accomplishing a few goals, or to resist them and risk the onset of full political gridlock.

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  • Camper John Bookman, now in his third week, says after a few early missteps, he has mastered cr pes stuffed with smoked chicken and vegetables.

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  • A crepe-maker pours batter onto the circular hot plate at Cr pes du Nord, a four-month-old French-Scandanavian cr perie and wine bar in the Financial District.

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