Handing vs Footing - What's the difference?
handing | footing |
The act by which something is handed to somebody.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
* Holder
A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
* (1800-1859)
A relative condition; state.
* (1800-1859)
A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*, I.38:
stability or balance when standing on one's feet
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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 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.
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As verbs the difference between handing and footing
is that handing is while footing is .As nouns the difference between handing and footing
is that handing is the act by which something is handed to somebody while footing is a ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.handing
English
(wikipedia handing)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued
footing
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
- As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his mannermade him a favorite.
- Lived on a footing of equality with nobles.
- Hark, I hear the footing of a man.
- The Monster swift as word, that from her went, / Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace.
- A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene.
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 auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.
