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Definition: Footer |
FooterNoun1. (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet; "he is a six-footer" or "the golfer sank a 40-footer" or "his yacht is a 60-footer". 2. A person who travels by foot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "footer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A heading set at the foot of a page. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A square-sawn piece of timber set under a pit-prop. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FooterSynonyms: pedestrian (n), walker (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's a twenty footer! (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Footer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Footer" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.15% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "footer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Footer | Last name | 170 | 47,411 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "footer": a six footer ♦ six footer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "footer": eight-footer, eighty-footer, five-footer, four-footer, left-footer, regular-footer, right-footer, seven-footer, side-footer, Single-footer, six-footer, thirty-five-footer, thirty-footer, three-footer, twelve-footer, two-footer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "footer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | futboll (football, soccer), kërcim (bounce, bouncing, bound, caper, dance, fly, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, spring, vault), këmbësor (foot passenger, foot slogger, footman, ganger, infantryman, pedestrian, unmounted, Walker), këmbësh, këmbë-. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | футбол (association football, football, soccer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 步行者 (Pedestrian, Walker). (various references) | |
Czech | cestující pìšky. (various references) | |
Danish | minetoemmer (crossbar, footlid, holing block, lagging, mine prop, mine timber, mining timber, pillar, pit prop, pit timber, post, prop, split, sprag, strut, stull, timber chock), bundtekst (footline). (various references) | |
Dutch | voetnoot (footnote), schaer (footlid). (various references) | |
Finnish | alatunniste (footline). (various references) | |
French | titre en bas de page (footline). (various references) | |
German | Fusszeile, fußzeile, Fußnote (footnote, gloss, note), Pfote (foot, leg, mitt, paw). (various references) | |
Greek | κρηπίς (footlid), υποσημείωση (annotation, footnote). (various references) | |
Hungarian | focizás. (various references) | |
Italian | zampa (foot, four-footed, leg, paw), titolo in fondo alla pagina (footline), soletta (insole). (various references) | |
Korean | 보행자 (Pedestrian, Walker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooterfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | futebol (football, soccer, soccer ball), tábua quadrada na base de um esteio de mina (footlid), rodapé (baseboard, foot, footnote, mop-board, skirting board). (various references) | |
Russian | нижний колонтитул (page footer). (various references) | |
Spanish | fútbol (association football, football, soccer), pie de página, nota de pie de página (footline). (various references) | |
Swedish | fotboll (football, pigskin, soccer). (various references) | |
Turkish | futbol (association football, football, soccer), uzunluğunda, boyunda. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пішохід (footpassenger, footslogger, ganger, pedestrian). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "footer": footers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "footer": pussyfooter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "footer": pussyfooters. (additional references) | |
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"Footer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fauter, fooder, foodery, fooker, fooler, fooster, foostier, foota, footar, foote, footee, footen, Footera, Footerb, footey, footier, footler, foptur, Forter, Fote, Fotev, Fother, Fouta, foutez, Foutou, futehr, futer, futrex, futter, mooter, ooter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: foetor. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fetor, forte, ofter. | |
-2 letters: foot, fore, fort, fret, froe, reft, roof, root, rote, roto, tore, toro, tref. | |
-3 letters: eft, fer, fet, foe, for, fro, oft, oot, ore, ort, ref, ret, roe, rot, toe, too, tor. | |
-4 letters: ef, er, et, oe, of, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: foetors, footers, footier, footler, foretop, poofter. | |
+2 letters: barefoot, footgear, footlers, footrace, footrest, footrope, footsore, footwear, forefoot, foremost, foretold, foretops, freeboot, oversoft, poofters, rooftree, wetproof. | |
+3 letters: afternoon, comforted, comforter, confiteor, flowerpot, footgears, footraces, footrests, footropes, forecourt, forefront, foretoken, forgotten, freeboots, heatproof, offertory, rooftrees, softcover, underfoot. | |
+4 letters: afternoons, barefooted, cofavorite, comforters, confiteors, confronted, confronter, defoliator, fatherhood, festoonery, floodwater, flowerpots, footballer, footbridge, footlocker, forecourts, forefronts, foremother, foretokens, foretopman, foretopmen, forlornest, fortepiano, foxtrotted, freebooted, freebooter, heretofore, housefront, oceanfront, outfrowned, outperform, perforator, pianoforte, postformed, shorefront, softcovers, storefront, surefooted, tenderfoot, thermoform, tomfoolery, toploftier, waterflood, waterproof. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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