footing🔊

A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

A standing; position; established place; foothold.

A relative condition; state.

(dated) A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.

(rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.

Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot

A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.

(engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.

(accounting) A double-check of the numbers vertically.

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