footing
/ˈfʊtɪŋ/ nom C1En français : appui, prise, position, état
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- A standing; position; established place; foothold.
- A relative condition; state.
- A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
- Stability or balance when standing on one's feet. · He lost his footing and fell down.· It was difficult to keep my footing on the ship during the storm.
- Mental stability or balance.
- The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot · the footing of a stocking
Pluriel footings
Dans la bibliothèque
Round the bright air with footing true,
Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister’s partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any woman’s heart.
You see on what a footing we are.
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