different between bibliography vs footnote

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (bibliographía, “the act or habit of writing books”), from ???????????? (bibliográphos, “a writer of books”), from ??????? (biblíon, “small book”) + ????? (gráph?, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?bli????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

bibliography (plural bibliographies)

1. A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.
2. A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.
3. The study of the history of books in terms of their classification, printing and publication.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bibliology
• reference list

Translations

Further reading

• bibliography in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• bibliography in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• bibliography at OneLook Dictionary Search

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English

Alternative forms

• f.n. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From foot +? note.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?t?n??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?t?no?t/

Noun

footnote (plural footnotes)

1. A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.

   Coordinate terms: headnote, endnote, hatnote, marginal note

2. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
   • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:

     In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

3. A qualification to the import of something.

Translations

Verb

footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)

1. To add footnotes to a text.

   Synonym: annotate

See also

• marginalia
• reference mark

Further reading

• footnote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia