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Footing vs Fooling - What's the difference?

footing | fooling |

As nouns the difference between footing and fooling

is that footing is a ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on while fooling is the act of one who fools.

As verbs the difference between footing and fooling

is that footing is while fooling is .

footing

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
  • * Holder
    • In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
  • A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his mannermade him a favorite.
  • A relative condition; state.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Lived on a footing of equality with nobles.
  • A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • Hark, I hear the footing of a man.
  • A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • The Monster swift as word, that from her went, / Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace.
  • *, I.38:
    • A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene.
  • stability or balance when standing on one's feet
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=Terry lost his footing to allow Van Persie to race clear for Arsenal's fourth after 85 minutes before the Netherlands striker completed a second treble against Chelsea by hammering his third past Petr Cech deep into stoppage time.}}
  • The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
  • * Francis A. Corliss, Supreme Court, County of New York (p.111)
    • The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.
  • 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. Simmonds.
  • (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
  • (accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.

    • Derived terms

    * footing beam * footing course * pay one's footing

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    fooling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fools.
  • * Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality
    • I laugh at him and use every little Art in my power to make him view things in a more cheerful light, but he knows better than I do, and tho' his good nature and politeness make him appear to be diverted with my foolings , I am sensible they do not amuse his melancholy.