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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

footing

/foot-ing/US // ˈfʊt ɪŋ //UK // (ˈfʊtɪŋ) //

基脚,基底,基础,基基础

Related Words

foothold立足点,立脚点,立足之地seating座椅,座位,座套,座次infrastructure基础设施,基础设施建设,基础建设,架构installation安装,安装工作,安装方式,安装工程bottom底部,底层,底,底端groundwork基础工作,基层工作,工作基础,基础知识establishment建立,建立的,建立了,建立起来的substratum基层,基质,基底层,基层材料underpinning支撑,支撑物,支柱,基础bedrock基岩,基石,基岩的basement地下室,地窖,地库,基地foot脚,脚部,脚步,脚踏实地settlement解决问题,解决方法,解决,解决方式warrant权证,手令,担保书,授权书ground地面,地,场地,土地substructure下层结构,下层建筑,下部结构,下层架构understructure底层结构,底层建筑,底层架构,底部结构standing站立,站在,站立式,站立的capacity能力,容量,容积率,容貌terms条款,条件,术语,条款规定

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the basis or foundation on which anything is established.
    • : the act of one who moves on foot, as in walking or dancing.
    • : a secure and established position.
    • : a place or support for the feet; surface to stand on; foothold.
    • : a firm placing of the feet; stability: He regained his footing.
    • : Building Trades, Civil Engineering. the part of a foundation bearing directly upon the earth.
    • : position or status assigned to a person, group, etc., in estimation or treatment.
    • : mutual standing; reciprocal relation: to be on a friendly footing with someone.
    • : entrance into a new position or relationship: to gain a footing in society.
    • : a fee demanded from a person upon entrance into a trade, society, etc.
    • : the act of adding a foot to something, as to a stocking.
    • : that which is added as a foot.
    • : the act of adding up a column of figures.
    • : the total of such a column.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfoundation, basis
Synonyms
foothold立足点,立脚点,立足之地basement地下室,地窖,地库,基地bedrock基岩,基石,基岩的bottom底部,底层,底,底端establishment建立,建立的,建立了,建立起来的foot脚,脚部,脚步,脚踏实地ground地面,地,场地,土地groundwork基础工作,基层工作,工作基础,基础知识infrastructure基础设施,基础设施建设,基础建设,架构installation安装,安装工作,安装方式,安装工程seat座位,座椅,座,座位数seating座椅,座位,座套,座次settlement解决问题,解决方法,解决,解决方式substratum基层,基质,基底层,基层材料substructure下层结构,下层建筑,下部结构,下层架构underpinning支撑,支撑物,支柱,基础understructure底层结构,底层建筑,底层架构,底部结构warrant权证,手令,担保书,授权书resting place安息之所,安息之地,安息地,安息之处
nounsocial status
Synonyms
capacity能力,容量,容积率,容貌character特征condition条件,状况,情况,状态grade等级place地点,地方,地位,场所position位置,定位,职务,姿势rank级别,等级,排名,职级relations关系relationship关系,的关系,关联,关联性situation情况,状况,局势,局面standing站立,站在,站立式,站立的state国家,国家的,国家的情况station站,站台,站内,站长terms条款,条件,术语,条款规定

Examples

  • Eric Fisher had inside leverage Drove Harrison up the field and his lost his footing.

  • While Green acknowledges the extra gear he could stand to provide, head coach Steve Kerr believes the three-time champion is exactly where he needs to be as these new-look Warriors find their footing.

  • Mortgage rates were flat this week as the economic recovery struggles to gain solid footing.

  • Oil majors that were once the most powerful corporations in the world lost much of their footing in 2020, along with many billions of dollars.

  • These are heady figures for an industry that gained its footing only 20 years ago.

  • President Obama pledged an estimated $175 million and sent more than 4,000 troops to help the region regain its footing.

  • Before we get off the phone, Kent stumbles and stammers until finding her footing in a heartwarming anecdote.

  • “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” Erdogan said, according to the Associated Press.

  • Today was the only time all week that Xi shared a platform with another world leader in Beijing on an equal footing.

  • Girma realized that law was her best tool to get equal footing for herself and the wider population of impaired Americans.

  • He is a business man of great competence, and I think he ought to be able to do much to get things on to a ship-shape footing.

  • He was certain that Delhi would fall if once the British secured a footing inside the fortifications.

  • She never went there again; from the first she was acute enough to perceive that she could never get a footing in such society.

  • Margaret has been with you some time; has she not interfered, or tried to put things upon a right footing?

  • After all, it was not a social call, and if she did not dress it would put things on the right footing.

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