What's the difference between footmark and footprint?

Footmark


Definition:

  • (n.) A footprint; a track or vestige.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the novel, Dr Watson talks of “a spectral hound which leaves material footmarks”, and Holmes suspects that Stapleton used phosphorous to give the hound its eerie glow.
  • (2) Only Swann kept him in any sort of order as he spun into the bowlers' footmarks outside the left-hander's off stump and found some turn.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The spectral hound left material footmarks according to Dr Watson In the pretty village of Ipplepen, Alex shows us Park Hill House, Robinson’s former home, and the much smaller 2 Wesley Terrace, home of Henry Baskerville, who was Conan Doyle’s chauffeur during his visits.
  • (4) My favourite Degas's of the dance are those paintings he made in these rehearsal rooms, with their high windows overlooking courtyards and distant views of the city, the pools of light and footmarks tracked over the sweeping, squeaking downbeat floors, the long, grubby walls with their patches of spalled plaster.

Footprint


Definition:

  • (n.) The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) DMS and DNase I footprint competition studies demonstrated that the entire footprint can be accounted for by interactions with two previously identified transcription factors.
  • (2) The holoenzyme gave a footprint covering the same region.
  • (3) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
  • (4) At high protein concentrations, three footprints fuse to a 106-bp protected region, suggesting that this segment specifically binds several proteins of lower affinity or abundance.
  • (5) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (6) Footprinting of unidirectional deletion mutants that had lost activity indicated that this binding was not sufficient to confer enhancement.
  • (7) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
  • (8) Tomorrow, I'm going to get on a plane and go to another city and admittedly my carbon footprint is massive.
  • (9) We show by electrophoresis mobility shift and by DNAase I footprinting assays that the alpha 1 product of the yeast alpha mating-type locus binds to homologous sequences within the control regions of the three known alpha-specific genes.
  • (10) Direct chemical 'footprinting' shows that translocation of transfer RNA occurs in two discrete steps.
  • (11) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
  • (12) On the contrary, at 37 degrees C only the promoter complex footprint was visible.
  • (13) This factor protects a 17 bp (-50 to -66) region in a DNAase I footprinting assay.
  • (14) Footprinting experiments show that GT-1 from both light-grown and dark-adapted plants binds to the same sequences in vitro.
  • (15) Other joint venture deals, designed to give the Pinewood name a global footprint, have also created Pinewood Toronto Studios and Pinewood Malaysia Iskandar Studios, with the latter due to open in 2013.
  • (16) By the combined use of DNase I footprinting, electrophoretic mobility-shift assay, and methylation interference analysis, we have identified a series of sequence-specific protein-DNA interactions in the 5' flanking region of the rat osteocalcin gene.
  • (17) However, in cell lines in which the gene was either silent or truncated the footprints were no longer visible.
  • (18) Similar to its human counterpart, yeast TFIID also exhibited specific binding to the adenovirus type 2 major late promoter TATA element, as shown by both DNase I footprinting and gel mobility shift assays.
  • (19) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (20) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.

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