different between footer vs footnote

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?t?/
• Hyphenation: foot?er
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot +? -er.

Noun

footer (plural footers)

1. (archaic) A footgoer; pedestrian
2. (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare foot, 13).
3. (in combination) something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer.
4. (in combination) someone who has a preference for a certain foot - such as right-footer/left-footer

Antonyms

• (computing sense): header

Translations

Etymology 2

From football +? -er (“Oxford -er”)

Noun

footer (plural footers)

1. (chiefly Britain, slang) Football / soccer.

Etymology 3

18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere, present active infinitive of futu? (“I fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to hit”).

Verb

footer (third-person singular simple present footers, present participle footering, simple past and past participle footered)

2. (Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

   Synonyms: fidget, fuss, trifle; see also Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• footle

Translations

References

Anagrams

• foetor, fœtor, refoot, tofore

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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