Footing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOOTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot
• dance
• pay (the bill) for something, typically when the amount is considered large or unreasonable.
NOUN:
• a foundation
• the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks.
• a corresponding part of the leg in vertebrate animals.
• a locomotory or adhesive organ of an invertebrate.
• the part of a sock, stocking, etc. that covers the foot.
• infantry; foot soldiers
• a projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.
• a device on a sewing machine for holding the material steady as it is sewn.
• the part by which a petal is attached.
• the lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom
• the end of a table that is furthest from where the host sits.
• the lower edge of a sail.
• a unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm)
• a unit used in describing a set of organ pipes according to its pitch, the designation being the length of one particular pipe
• a unit used in describing a set of harpsichord strings playing at the same pitch as a set of organ pipes of the same designation
• a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables.
• basis or foundation
• Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
• Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
• Relative condition; state.
• Tread; step; especially, measured tread.
• 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; as, the footing of a stocking.
• 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.
• status with respect to the relations between people or groups
• a relation that provides the foundation for something
• a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing
• a person's body below the torso, including the entire leg and the foot.
• a person's manner or speed of walking or running
• the end of a bed, couch, or grave where the occupant's feet normally rest.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to walk
• a foothold

Words related to FOOTING

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How to use FOOTING in a sentence

• When once they gain a footing, they generally appropriate the best part of the trade to themselves.
• We were sometimes among huge, angular boulders, and sometimes amid lighter shingle, which gave way at every step, thus forcing us to shift our footing incessantly.
• Once a firm footing is established, it is only a question of time when the spring will be filled to the brim with earth.
• Hence he did not see fit to put any person on an equal footing with himself.
• Fearing to lose her footing, in her frantic efforts to get free, Dorothy thought quickly.
• Prince, we must overlook your trifling disadvantage of caste and meet on a common footing.
• His relations with Parthia, he said, might perhaps be placed on a proper footing without a war, and he was quite willing to try negotiation.
• At length, finding it impossible to keep the men steady, I moved them up to the higher ground, where we could have met the natives upon a footing of equality.
• Then he felt around cautiously, being careful to take no more steps until he was sure of his footing.
• During that period the new religious doctrines had gained a firm footing in Germany.
• The snow, frozen and crisp, gave the dogs good footing.
• During several days and under conditions difficult to explain Germany had been preparing to change her army from a peace to a war footing.
• He was awed by the immensity of the chasm and talked continuously to his horse which shuffled along behind paying careful attention to the footing.
• The footing was uncertain, the snow deep, and the driving storm almost blinded him.
• He seems not deficient, as far as I can see, and the footing on which he comes, must furnish a presumption for what we do not see.
• All the commercial communications and relations between France and the Prussian states were re-established by this treaty on the same footing upon which they stood before the war.
• The self-oblivious elation with which the slim lass gave her eyes and mind to everything except her own footing caused him to keep his chief watch on her.
• But the need of gaining Paradise gave them a firm footing in the sky.
• Quoth he, my guards are weary grown With footing country dances, They never at St.
• The tale turns on the extraordinary extent to which concealed Judaism had gained footing at that period in Spain.
• Miss Deborah Kensington sat in an old-fashioned rocking-chair covered with a cheap print, industriously engaged in footing a stocking.
• Nothing remains to consummate the event but the passage of an act by Congress to admit the State of Texas into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States.
• Within two days we were, as Larry expressed it, on a war footing.
• What rendered this passage most difficult and dangerous, was the jungle which, while it caused you to stoop, at the same time concealed your footing.
• He puts them on a sound footing to begin with, and he leads them to understand that they must remain there.
• He thus stands on a footing of equality with his subordinates.

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