foots
Covers the tab
Foots is the third-person singular of foot, meaning to pay a bill: She foots the bill for dinner every time.
Foots also names the sediment that settles at the bottom during oil refining or winemaking—the dregs left after processing.
In theater, to foot the stage is to walk across it.
Residue at bottom
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- residueMatter left behind
- soap makingCrafting cleansing products
- impuritiesUnwanted substances within something
Final sums computed
- adds upSums or coheres
- sumsAddition results
- talliesRecorded count marks
- calculatesPerforms mathematical operations
reckons · computes · counts · figures · tabulates · casts · amounts · aggregates
dregs
Residue at bottom
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- residueMatter left behind
- soap makingCrafting cleansing products
totals
Final sums computed
calculates · reckons · computes · counts · figures · tabulates · casts · amounts · aggregates · enumerates
pays
Gives money owed
handles · shoulders · bears · finances · bankrolls · sponsors · underwrites · funds · defrays · squares
stockings
Fitted leg coverings
footwear · ribbing · cuff · instep · reinforcement · darning · mending
footstops
Uppermost parts or garments
heads · cream · supernatant · skimmings · surface layer
- on footMoving by walking
- left foot
- war footingState of military readiness
- set footEnter a place
- one footThirty centimeters, roughly
- athlete's footFungal infection of feet
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