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Footing vs Hooting - What's the difference?

footing | hooting |

As nouns the difference between footing and hooting

is that footing is a ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

As verbs the difference between footing and hooting

is that footing is while hooting 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)
    • ----

    hooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Washington Irving, title=Bracebridge Hall, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification. }}