What's the difference between footing and total?

Footing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foot
  • (n.) Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
  • (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
  • (n.) Relative condition; state.
  • (n.) Tread; step; especially, measured tread.
  • (n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
  • (n.) The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
  • (n.) A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
  • (n.) The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
  • (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
  • (2) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
  • (3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (4) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (5) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (6) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (7) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
  • (8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
  • (9) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
  • (10) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
  • (11) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
  • (12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
  • (13) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
  • (14) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (15) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
  • (16) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (17) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
  • (18) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
  • (19) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
  • (20) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.

Total


Definition:

  • (a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.
  • (n.) The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
  • (2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (3) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (4) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (5) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (6) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (7) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
  • (8) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
  • (9) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
  • (10) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
  • (11) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (12) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (13) A total of five men appeared at a Moscow courtroom on Sunday.
  • (14) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (15) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
  • (16) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (17) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
  • (18) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (19) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (20) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.