A Quick and Simple Dictionary

footing

1. Noun.  A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
2. Noun.  A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
3. Noun.  A relative condition; state.
4. Noun.  A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
5. Noun.  (context, now) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
6. Noun.  stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
7. Noun.  The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
8. Noun.  The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
9. Noun.  A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
10. Noun.  The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.
11. Noun.  (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
12. Noun.  (accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.