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Informal or colloquial synonyms of 'walk'
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footing
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The word footing has a number of meanings: Architecture, Foundation (architecture) Translation Science, Footing (translation theory) Bookkeeping, Footing (bookkeeping) Sexuality, Footing (sexual act) Jogging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Footing \Foot"ing\, n. Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. --Holder. Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. 2 A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold. 3 A relative condition; state. 4 A tread; step; especially, measured ...
Usage examples of footing.
There, Rienadre, Denalle, and Nylan struggled to remove the silty and clay-filled soil, at least enough to provide footings for the crude retaining wall that would, Nylan hoped, form the millpond.
He then sketched the footings on both sides of the river, well back from the verge.
It worked out by the end of that day that the Terrans would cut timber for the footings on their side of the river, the Hrrubans on theirs.
The logs for the footings were lifted into position by Hrrubans wearing protective hide gloves.
After an arbitrary pause, the Hrrubans filled in the dirt around the footings and turned to the first of the span logs.
There's a hell of a lot of mass coming down out there, and the footings don't have to actually turn to impart that kind of motion.
And, finally, we had on-site supervisors who were responsible for spot-checking the footings after they were in.
Charlie crouched on his belly in the bottom of the boat grabbing at anything that looked grabable, then inched his way past the footings for the mast.
Under each table was a full meter of reinforced concrete footings.
The old retaining wall lay beneath the nineteenth-century footings, and the hole near its base was clearly part of an earlier structure.