2syllables
footing
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Definitions offooting
1verb
- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To pay (a bill).
- To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- To walk.
- To tread.
Example: "to foot the green"
- To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
Example: "to foot (or foot up) an account"
1noun
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
- A relative condition; state.
- A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
- 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.
- The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- Double checking the numbers vertically.
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