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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
footnote
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ If Sheila's letter is to be printed, may I please add a footnote.
▪ Melville adds as a footnote that the oil from the whale is used in the most important ceremonies including most coronations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I don't see this affair as anything more than an interesting historical footnote.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Maslow footnote sent me to the library to browse through books on the creative processes of mathematicians and scientists.
▪ Carvey on film is mostly a footnote, a smudge, an embarrassment.
▪ It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual.
▪ It was now that Popham Down wrote his footnote.
▪ Many scores of pages are devoted to these topics and the general reader will need to keep a bookmark in the footnotes.
▪ Melville adds as a footnote that the oil from the whale is used in the most important ceremonies including most coronations.
▪ This total dollar allowance is usually listed in a footnote to the balance sheet.
▪ We don't have any helpful little footnote explaining why.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Footnote

Footnote \Foot"note`\, n. A note of reference or comment at the foot[4] of a page.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
footnote

also foot-note, 1841, from foot (n.) "lower end of a document" (1660s) + note (n.). So called from its original position at the foot of a page. Also sometimes formerly bottom note. As a verb, from 1864. Related: Footnoted; footnoting.

Wiktionary
footnote

alt. 1 A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text 2 (context by extension English) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related n. 1 A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text 2 (context by extension English) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related vb. To add footnotes to a text; to annotate

WordNet
footnote
  1. n. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page [syn: footer]

  2. v. add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" [syn: annotate]

Wikipedia
Footnote (film)

Footnote'' (, translit. He'arat Shulayim'') is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar'aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a father and son who teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Footnote won nine prizes at the 2011 Ophir Awards, becoming Israel's entry for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. On 18 January 2012, the film was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars. On 24 January 2012, the film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to the Iranian film A Separation.

Usage examples of "footnote".

George Tucker, today only an obscure footnote to the history of the drama, perceived yet another form of devil, one darker than any conjured up by the warring theologians of his time.

Indeed an Ahmad ibn Majid was cited, but he was mentioned only in a footnote and appeared to be an Arab chronicler.

After a general introduction, however, the writing seemed to become more technical and heavily footnoted, sprinkled with Roman numeral references, foreign phrases, capitalized abbreviations, and words like Masoretic and Septuagintal.

I suppose it was an awkward but necessary stage in paleographic developmental, destined for an obscure footnote of history now that its questionable usefulness has ended.

He crossed the street to the candy store tucked in at 77 Water, red and yellow awning, a homey footnote to the mass of steel and anodized aluminum.

The fractured footnotes to Plato began to litter the landscape with their partialities and favored dualisms, and it is now, just now, only now, that we have begun to pick up the pieces.

We have only footnoted the text in some detail where he talks about people or events in his personal life or where there is a reference to some topic about which the reader could find nothing in any existing book of reference.

Note: Lengthy footnotes, or those consisting of more than one paragraph, have been numbered and relocated to the end of the chapter in which they occur.

Western philosophic tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

One is that, if Western civilization is a series of footnotes to Plato, the footnotes are fractured.

Heart, the unspoken One, that joins Ascent and Descent in the everlasting Circle of Redemption and Embrace, Freud simply remained as one of the many, and certainly one of the greatest, of the fractured footnotes to Plato.

Or, we might say, they are both half right and half wrongthe fractured footnotes to Plato.

I am suggesting that that is precisely what happened in the ensuing series of fractured footnotes to Plato that is called Western civilization.

As this is an Anglo-American edition, many of the footnotes have been provided for the benefit of American readers and contain information we know to be familiar to English readers.

The numbers in the cross-references in the footnotes refer to items, not pages.