FOOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footer mean? 

• FOOTER (noun)
  The noun FOOTER has 3 senses:

1. (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet

2. a person who travels by foot

3. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

  Familiarity information: FOOTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

his yacht is a 60-footer

Hypernyms ("footer" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who travels by foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

footer; pedestrian; walker

Hypernyms ("footer" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "footer"):

shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)

wayfarer (a pedestrian who walks from place to place)

waddler (someone who walks with a waddling gait)

plodder; slogger; trudger (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)

swaggerer (someone who walks in an arrogant manner)

stumbler; tripper (a walker or runner who trips and almost falls)

strider (a person who walks rapidly with long steps)

stamper; stomper; tramper; trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

stalker (someone who walks with long stiff strides)

reeler; staggerer; totterer (someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall)

hiker; tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

ambler; saunterer; stroller (someone who walks at a leisurely pace)

rambler (a person who takes long walks in the country)

peripatetic (a person who walks from place to place)

passer; passer-by; passerby (a person who passes by casually or by chance)

nondriver (a person who is not a driver)

marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)

jaywalker (a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally)

hobbler; limper (someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait)

Derivation:

foot (walk)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A printed note placed below the text on a printed page

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

footer; footnote

Hypernyms ("footer" is a kind of...):

annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

 Context examples 

The shark, a sixteen-footer, was hoisted up against the main-rigging.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A file format consisting of a 10-byte header containing a magic number, a version number, and a timestamp, a Deflate-compressed body, and an 8-byte footer containing a checksum and the length of the original uncompressed data.

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