Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A foot or footlike part, especially the foot of a four-footed vertebrate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of peace.
- n. A Middle English form of piece.
- n. In anatomy and zoology:
- n. 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.
- n. A foot-like part or organ; a peduncle, or base of support.
- n. In music: Same as ground bass (which see, under bass).
- n. Same as podatus.
- n. In prosody, either of the two quatrains which form the first part of a sonnet.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
Etymologies
- Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's part of the phrase pes Petruś pava-c traula-c.”
“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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“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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“Next on the menu are dosas — paper-thin Indian cr ê pes — and savory snacks known as chaat.”
“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.”
“Wall Street diners pack the tiny, four-month-old Cr pes du Nord for a relaxed but fancy lunch of cr pes.”
“Cr pes du Nord is at 17 S. Williams St. and serves lunch weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.”
“We're seeing sort of a comeback," said Morten Sohlberg, owner of Cr pes du Nord and founder of the Sm rgas Chef Restaurant Group, with three other Scandinavian restaurants in New York.”
“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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“Here, savory cr pes are more popular and so the brothers adjusted the menu to offer more of those options.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pes’.
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Prosody
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headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 203 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words Denied by Scrabble on my iPhone
trampoo, moar, scrubby, quan, bip, pes, swimg, swurm, waner, culh, hutt, tulb and 10 more...
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English Weights and Measures
Most of these are names of weights and measures in use before 1500, gleaned from household accounts of English estates and colleges.
pondus, clove, wey, charrus, pisa, seam, sum, petra, peck, fatt, skep, quarter and 49 more...
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Missale Romanum
Latin words from the ordinary of the Mass that do not have obvious English cognates. For a complete list of words used in the Traditional Latin Mass (the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite), see ...
lætíficat, dolóso, érue, incédo, dum, confitébor, contúrbas, spera, quóniam, adhuc, illi, vultus and 169 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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