Toe

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One of the digits of a vertebrate foot.
  • noun. The forepart of a foot or hoof.
  • noun. The terminal segment of an invertebrate's limb.
  • noun. The part of a sock, shoe, or boot that covers the digits of the foot.
  • noun. The lowest, outermost, or endmost part, as.
  • noun. The part of the head of a golf club farthest from the shaft.
  • noun. The part of a vertical shaft that turns in a bearing.
  • noun. The lowest part of an embankment or dam.
  • noun. A protruding downslope end of an alluvial fan, glacier, or lava flow.
  • intransitive verb. To touch, kick, or reach with the toe.
  • intransitive verb. To drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club.
  • intransitive verb. To set or adjust at an oblique angle. Used with in or out.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To drive (a nail or spike) at an oblique angle.
  • intransitive verb. To fasten or secure with obliquely driven nails or spikes.
  • intransitive verb. To stand, walk, move, or be formed with the toes pointed in a specified direction.
  • idiom. (on (one's) toes) Ready to act; alert.
  • idiom. (step/tread) To hurt, offend, or encroach on the feelings, actions, or province of.
  • idiom. (line/mark) To adhere to doctrines or rules conscientiously; conform.
  • idiom. (line/mark) To touch a mark or line with the toe or hands in readiness for the start of a race or competition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In machinery: A form of cam by which the valve-rods are lifted in the Stevens valve-gear for vertical river-boat engines.
  • noun. In a car-wheel, the outer edge of the flange.— 9. The pointed end of the foot of an organ-pipe.— 10. In golf, the nose of a club. See nose, 5.
  • In golf, to strike (a ball) off the toe of the club.— 4. To drive (nails or heavy steel pins) obliquely through a piece or element of a frame to secure it to another placed at an angle with it. The nails, entering both pieces, fasten them together against light stresses laterally, and the necessity for tenon and mortise is avoided.
  • To touch or reach with the toes.
  • To furnish or provide a toe to or for; mend the toe of: as, to toe a stocking.
  • To place or move the toes, as in walking or dancing.
  • noun. A digit of the foot, corresponding to a finger of the hand: as, the great toe; the little toe; the hind toe of a bird.
  • noun. A digit of either foot, fore or hind, of a quadruped, especially when there are three or more (a large single toe, or a pair of large toes, inclosed in horn, being commonly called hoof).
  • noun. The fore part, end, or tip of the hoof of an ungulate, as the horse.
  • noun. The end of a stocking, shoe, or boot which contains or covers the toes: as, square or round toes; a hole in the toe.
  • noun. A piece of iron welded under the front of a horseshoe, opposite the heels, to prevent slipping. See cut under shoe.
  • noun. A projection from the foot-piece of an object to give it a broader bearing and greater stability.
  • noun. A barb, stud, or projection on a lock-bolt.
  • noun. In machinery:
  • noun. The lower end of a vertical shaft, as a mill-spindle, which rests in a step.
  • noun. An arm on the valve-lifting rod of a steam-engine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
  • noun. One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
  • noun. The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
  • noun. Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
  • noun. A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
  • noun. A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
  • noun. a tadpole; a polliwig.
  • noun. a morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus. See Talipes.
  • intransitive verb. To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
  • intransitive verb. to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other.
  • intransitive verb. to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot.
  • cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    body part  covering  drive  force  hit  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au  Beau  Bio  Bo  Bordeaux  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ankle  belly  chest  chin  claw  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arch  base  baseboard  basement  chassis  
    verb-form
    toed  toeing  toes