Difference between Pick and Foot

What is the difference between Pick and Foot?

Pick as a verb is to grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. while Foot as a verb is to use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

Pick

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. To decide between options. To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released. To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair. A choice. A screen An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. An interception. A good defensive play by an infielder Short for pick-off A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

Example sentence: To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Foot

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).To pay (a bill).To parse into metrical feet.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.Travel by walking.The base or bottom of anything.The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.Foot soldiers; infantry.The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.The bottom edge of a sail.The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.The globular lower domain of a protein.The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.

Example sentence: Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

We hope you now know whether to use Pick or Foot in your sentence.

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