footing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.”

2. isim A standing; position; established place; foothold.

   “As soon, however, as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner […] made him a favorite.”

3. isim A relative condition; state.

   “[L]ived on a footing of equality with nobles.”

4. isim A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.

   “Hark, I hear the footing of a man.”

5. isim A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.

   “The Monster swift as word, that from her went, Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace[…].”

6. isim Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.

   “He lost his footing and fell down.”

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

   “The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.”

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

   “the footing of a stocking”

9. isim Foundation or basis for further advancement or development.

   “The subsidy gives the organization a firm footing.”

10. isim A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
11. isim The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
12. isim The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
13. isim A double-check of the numbers vertically.
14. fiil present participle and gerund of foot