different between footing vs mooting

English

Etymology

From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Noun

footing (countable and uncountable, plural footings)

1. A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.

2. A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
3. A relative condition; state.
4. A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
   • c. 1596-1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

     Hark, I hear the footing of a man.

5. (rare) 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 […].
6. stability or balance when standing on one's feet

7. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
   • 1866, 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.

8. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot

   the footing of a stocking

9. A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
10. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
11. (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
12. (accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.

Derived terms

• footing beam
• footing course
• pay one's footing

Translations

References

Verb

footing

1. present participle of foot

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ti?/

Noun

footing m (uncountable)

1. (France) Exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise)
   • 2014, Erin McCahan, Cool, Sweet, Hot, Love, Nathan (publ.), page 8.

Synonyms

• jogging

Further reading

• “footing” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From French footing, Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +? -ing.

Noun

footing m (uncountable)

1. jogging (as a form of exercise), running

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +? -ing.

Noun

footing m (invariable)

1. jogging
   • 2006, Vittorino Andreoli, Alfabeto delle relazioni, BUR Saggi.

Spanish

Etymology

From French footing, and this pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?futin/, [?fu.t??n]

Noun

footing m (uncountable)

1. jogging (as a form of exercise), running
   • 2014, Alex de Deus Monteiro, El hijo de un Dios Mayor, Bubok Publishing, ?ISBN, page 24.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English m?tung, equivalent to moot +? -ing.

Noun

mooting (plural mootings)

1. The activity of taking part in a moot court.
   • 1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803

     In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.

Etymology 2

From moot +? -ing.

Verb

mooting

1. present participle of moot

Anagrams

• tooming