Footfall vs Walking - What's the difference?
footfall | walking |
(countable) The sound made by a footstep.
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* 1916 , , "The Hungry Stones," in The Hungry Stones And Other Stories ,
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(chiefly, British, uncountable) Foot (pedestrian) traffic.
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Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
Characterized by or suitable for walking.
As nouns the difference between footfall and walking
is that footfall is (countable) the sound made by a footstep while walking is .As a verb walking is
.As an adjective walking is
as a human; living.footfall
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Alternative forms
* foot-fallNoun
(en noun)- . . . like hedgehogs which
- Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
- Their pricks at my footfall .
- I heard many footfalls , as if a large number of persons were rushing down the steps.
- This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall , haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune.
Bargains galore in battle of the high street," The Scotsman , 9 Dec. (retrieved 11 Dec. 2008),
- With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers.
walking
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.
Rob Dorit
These 'Bots Are Made for Walking, passage=Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.}}
Adjective
(-)- Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
- Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
- a walking tour
- good walking shoes