'Footing' definitions:
Definition of 'footing'
(from WordNet)
noun
Status with respect to the relations between people or groups; "on good terms with her in-laws"; "on a friendly footing" [syn: footing, terms]
noun
A relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis" [syn: footing, basis, ground]
noun
A place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing [syn: foothold, footing]
Definition of 'Footing'
From: GCIDE
- Foot \Foot\ (f[oo^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Footed; p. pr. & vb. n. Footing.]
- 1. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Footing'
From: GCIDE
- Footing \Foot"ing\, n.
- 1. Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. [1913 Webster]
- In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. --Holder. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold. [1913 Webster]
- As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Relative condition; state. [1913 Webster]
- Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Tread; step; especially, measured tread. [1913 Webster]
- Hark, I hear the footing of a man. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A narrow cotton lace, without figures. [1913 Webster]
- 8. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. --Simmonds. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Arch. & Enging.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. [1913 Webster]
- Footing course (Arch.), one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above.
- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. --Wright.
- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'footing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- adding,
- advantage,
- allowance,
- ambit,
- ambling,
- ambulation,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- Anschauung,
- assessment,
- backpacking,
- bailiwick,
- balance,
- base,
- baseboard,
- basement,
- basis,
- bear hug,
- bearing wall,
- bearings,
- bed,
- bedding,
- bedrock,
- bill,
- bite,
- blackmail,
- blood money,
- bottom,
- calculation,
- calculus,
- capacity,
- case,
- caste,
- casting,
- character,
- chassis,
- ciphering,
- circumstance,
- clamp,
- clasp,
- class,
- clench,
- clinch,
- cling,
- clinging,
- clutch,
- computation,
- condition,
- constituency,
- dado,
- death grip,
- distance,
- echelon,
- embrace,
- emolument,
- estate,
- estimation,
- eye,
- fee,
- firm hold,
- fix,
- floor,
- flooring,
- fond,
- foot,
- foothold,
- footing it,
- footplate,
- footrail,
- footrest,
- footwork,
- foundation,
- frame,
- frame of reference,
- framework,
- fundament,
- fundamental,
- going on foot,
- grapple,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gripe,
- ground,
- grounds,
- groundwork,
- hardpan,
- hierarchy,
- hiking,
- hitchhiking,
- hitching,
- hold,
- hoofing,
- hug,
- hush money,
- infrastructure,
- initiation fee,
- iron grip,
- jam,
- keel,
- legwork,
- level,
- light,
- location,
- locus standi,
- lot,
- lumbering,
- marching,
- mental outlook,
- mileage,
- modality,
- mode,
- mopboard,
- nadir,
- nip,
- orbit,
- order,
- outlook,
- pass,
- pavement,
- pedestrianism,
- perambulation,
- perch,
- perspective,
- pickle,
- place,
- plight,
- point of view,
- position,
- post,
- posture,
- power structure,
- precedence,
- predicament,
- principle,
- purchase,
- radical,
- rank,
- rate,
- rating,
- reckoning,
- reference system,
- regard,
- respect,
- retainer,
- retaining fee,
- riprap,
- rock bottom,
- rudiment,
- sauntering,
- scot,
- seat,
- seating,
- seizure,
- shoemold,
- side,
- sight,
- sill,
- situation,
- slant,
- sole,
- solid ground,
- solid rock,
- sphere,
- sphere of influence,
- spot,
- stability,
- stage,
- staggering,
- stamping ground,
- stance,
- stand,
- standing,
- standing place,
- standpoint,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- stereobate,
- stipend,
- strolling,
- stylobate,
- substratum,
- substruction,
- substructure,
- system,
- terms,
- terra firma,
- territory,
- thumbing,
- thumbing a ride,
- tight grip,
- toddling,
- toe,
- toehold,
- totaling,
- toting,
- tottering,
- traction,
- tramping,
- treading,
- tribute,
- trudging,
- turf,
- underbuilding,
- undercarriage,
- undergirding,
- underpinning,
- understruction,
- understructure,
- universe,
- vantage,
- venue,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- waddling,
- wainscot,
- walking,
- warrant
Words containing 'Footing'
- By foot,
- Foot,
- Footed,
- Foots,
- On foot,
- To be on foot,
- To foot it,
- Under foot,
- foot up,
- Baker foot,
- Candle foot,
- Cubic foot,
- Elephant's foot,
- Foot Guards,
- Foot artillery,
- Foot bank,
- Foot barracks,
- Foot bellows,
- Foot candle,
- Foot company,
- Foot gear,
- Foot hammer,
- Foot iron,
- Foot jaw,
- Foot key,
- Foot lathe,
- Foot level,
- Foot mantle,
- Foot of the fine,
- Foot page,
- Foot passenger,
- Foot pavement,
- Foot poet,
- Foot post,
- Foot pound,
- Foot poundal,
- Foot press,
- Foot race,
- Foot rail,
- Foot rot,
- Foot rule,
- Foot screw,
- Foot secretion,
- Foot soldier,
- Foot stick,
- Foot stove,
- Foot ton,
- Foot tubercle,
- Foot valve,
- Foot vise,
- Foot waling,
- Foot wall,
- Footing beam,
- Footing course,
- From head to foot,
- Goat's foot,
- Ice foot,
- Ionic foot,
- Light of foot,
- Lion's foot,
- Pelican's foot,
- Pot foot,
- Presser foot,
- Soul foot,
- Spear foot,
- Square foot,
- To foot a bill,
- To keep the foot,
- To set on foot,
- Tube foot,
- animal foot,
- athlete's foot,
- bear's foot,
- bird's foot,
- board foot,
- cat's foot,
- cleft foot,
- cloven foot,
- crow's foot,
- flat foot,
- foot brake,
- foot doctor,
- foot dragging,
- foot lever,
- foot pedal,
- foot traffic,
- fore foot,
- fossorial foot,
- hand and foot,
- heterodactyl foot,
- horse's foot,
- human foot,
- immersion foot,
- invertebrate foot,
- light footed,
- lobate foot,
- metrical foot,
- nimble footed,
- sucker foot,
- trench foot,
- vertebrate foot,
- webbed foot,
- whiteman's foot,
- zygodactyl foot,
- Bear's-foot,
- Bird's-foot,
- Cat's-foot,
- Cleft-footed,
- Cloven-footed,
- Crow's-foot,
- Dove's-foot,
- Duck's-foot,
- Fin-footed,
- Flat-footed,
- Fleet-foot,
- Foot and mouth disease,
- Hen's-foot,
- Leaf-footed,
- Light-foot,
- Light-footed,
- Lobe-footed,
- Mouth-footed,
- Neat's-foot,
- Polt-foot,
- Polt-footed,
- Rough-footed,
- Sheep's-foot,
- Single-foot,
- Sure-footed,
- Tickle-footed,
- Tiger's-foot,
- Tiger-foot,
- Tiger-footed,
- To pay one's footing,
- To put one's foot down,
- To show the cloven foot,
- Turtle-footed,
- Two-foot,
- Web-footed,
- White-foot,
- Wing-footed,
- Wolf's-foot,
- acre-foot,
- australian hare's foot,
- bird's foot clover,
- bird's foot trefoil,
- dove's foot geranium,
- elephant's-foot,
- fast-footed,
- foot-lambert,
- foot-loose,
- foot-pound,
- foot-poundal,
- foot-shaped,
- foot-sore,
- foot-ton,
- four-footed,
- heavy-footed,
- kangaroo's-foot,
- soft-footed,
- swift-footed,
- two-footed,
- Bird's-foot trefoil,
- Black-footed ferret,
- Calf's-foot jelly,
- Hare's-foot fern,
- To put the best foot foremost,
- bird's-foot fern,
- bird's-foot violet,
- bird-footed dinosaur,
- black-footed albatross,
- blue-footed booby,
- brush-footed butterflies,
- brush-footed butterfly,
- comb-footed spider,
- dusky-footed woodrat,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- four-footed butterfly,
- great-footed hawk,
- kangaroo-foot plant,
- leaf-foot bug,
- leaf-footed bug,
- neat's-foot oil,
- rabbit's-foot fern,
- red-footed booby,
- single-footed pace,
- squirrel's-foot fern,
- thick-footed morel,
- white-footed mouse,
- white-man's foot,
- To put one's foot in one's mouth,
- canary island hare's foot fern,
- dusky-footed wood rat,
- hare's-foot bristle fern,
- prairie bird's-foot trefoil