FOOTING

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Traducere în limba română

footing s.

1. v. foothold (1);

to lose one’s footing a-şi pierde echilibrul, a aluneca, a cădea;

to gain / to get a firm footing a pune bine piciorul.

2. (constr.) fundaţie, bază, soclu; talpă.

3. (fig.) situaţie solidă / stabilă / fermă.

4. (fig.) poziţie, situaţie; raport;

to be on an equal footing with a fi pe picior de egalitate cu;

on a friendly footing în raporturi de prietenie;

on a war footing pe picior de război.

5. socoteală, total (al unei coloane de cifre).

6. încăputare (a unui ciorap);

(fam.) to pay (for) one’s footing a-şi plăti taxa de intrare (într-o organizaţie, societate etc.) sub forma unui dar;

giddy footing pământ care se cutremură; podea care se clatină;

slippery footing pământ alunecos.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

No dog could make him lose his footing.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unreserve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recollection.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Upon the fact that Sophy and I had been engaged for a long period, and that Sophy, with the permission of her parents, was more than content to take me—in short, said Traddles, with his old frank smile, on our present Britannia-metal footing.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is true, that while I worked, she would idle; and I thought to myself, If you and I were destined to live always together, cousin, we would commence matters on a different footing.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Happening, however, as I stopped to listen, to put my foot in a hole where the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn had left a plank deficient, I fell down with some noise, and when I recovered my footing all was silent.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The footing looked good.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The clergyman looked up at the speaker and stood mute; the clerk did the same; Mr. Rochester moved slightly, as if an earthquake had rolled under his feet: taking a firmer footing, and not turning his head or eyes, he said, Proceed.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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