different between headers vs footer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?.d?s/, /?h?.d?s/
• enPR: h?d'?rs
• Hyphenation: head?ers
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)s

Noun

headers

1. plural of header

Anagrams

• Rasheed, adheres, hearsed, hederas, reheads, reshade, sheared

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