footprint
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈfʊtˌprɪnt/
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- The detective carefully examined the footprint left in the sand to identify the suspect.
- leaving footprints
- footprints in the sand
- find footprints
I thought, watching her bare footprints in the new snow.
- I thought, watching her bare footprints in the new snow.
- Is this the the footprints in White Sands, New Mexico?
- And there's no footprints in the sand, or so it seems.
- I'm near a cave and there's just snow and I see bare footprints out front.
- I mean, there's custard cream crumbs on the floor, there's muddy footprints.
- You forgot that you had stepped in mud and that you stood in your own kitchen with muddy footprints.
- There was a trail of footprints from these tents that went down the snowy mountain to this little crops of trees.
- Obviously my only footprints would be that footprints, wouldn't it?
- There's so much to just a fingerprint or thumbprint or an ear print or footprint.
Examples
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I tried to make a plaster model from the footprints we found.
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I thought, watching her bare footprints in the new snow.
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I followed some weird footprints here.
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The footprints stop at the road.
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I'm going on back to check for footprints.
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All right, okay, we see some footprints, Abdul.
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We can't even find footprints leading up to the house.
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In the wet sand, we see footprints leading into the surrounding tall grass.
Fiction book (1992) -
So little happens on the Moon that the Apollo astronauts' footprints will last for millions of years.
Academic text (2003) -
There was a trail of footprints from these tents that went down the snowy mountain to this little crops of trees.
Synonyms
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2.0
A mark left on a surface by a hand, foot, or paw
100
1.0
The sound a foot or shoe makes on the ground
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4.1
A mark left on a surface when something presses into it
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4.2
A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it
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2.4
A mark left by a foot or shoe on a surface
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3.7
A mark a boot makes on a surface that often shows the sole pattern
A mark in the ground that shows someone was there
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Footprint comes from foot + print, where print means a 'mark', so it is the mark a foot or shoe leaves on the ground; this is the original, literal meaning used for marks in mud or snow.