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[ noun ] a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; a clue that someone was present
Examples "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)The hoofmarks of cattle and the prints of bare feet in the mud or in the dust were as numerous as the traces of shod horses . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
Examples "the footprints of an earlier civilization" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the area taken up by some object
Examples "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches" Related terms |
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