footings in English

noun

1

a secure grip with one's feet.

he suddenly lost his footing

synonyms: foothold, toehold, grip, purchase

2

the basis on which something is established or operates.

attempts to establish the store on a firm financial footing

synonyms: basis, base, foundation

3

the bottommost part of a foundation wall, with a course of concrete wider than the base of the wall.

But because they are some distance away from the older basement walls and footings , there was no shoring of existing foundation required during construction.

noun

foothold, toehold, grip, purchase
basis, base, foundation
standing, status, position, condition, arrangement, basis, relationship, terms
basis, ground
foothold
terms

Use "footings" in a sentence

1. It will take two weeks just to dig the footings.”

2. • Location and dimensions of existing bridge footings, piers and/or abutments.

3. After pouring the footings, trowel the top so it is smooth and level.

4. In fact, some of the footings had rested on soil, not bedrock.

5. Location and dimensions of existing bridge footings, piers and/or abutments.

6. A structure consists of footings, piers, piercaps, abutments, beams and a deck.

7. Synonyms for Bedrocks include bases, bottoms, foundations, substrata, underpinnings, beds, substructures, grounds, understructures and footings

8. As a young man I worked with a contractor building footings and foundations for new houses.

9. The Bleeders that you are talking about are installed by the masons that put in the footings

10. The BSN Chain Link Backstops are erected by installing supplied 2-3/8” pipe supports approximately every 10’ in concrete footings

11. Proper Concreting of reinforced concrete columns, pedestals and footings is needed to ensure desired strength and durability of these structural members

12. Geotechnics, laboratory and numerical assessment of bearing capacity of soils under curricular footings, enhancement of soil properties using man-made additives.

13. The concrete footings and foundations were then tied to the granite bedrock with rock anchors to resist even torrential wind and powerful groundwater.

14. SUBSTRUCTURE Abutments, piers and bents, including, but not limited to, the following: footings; piles; caps; rock filled cribs; bearing seats; wing walls; back walls; sheet piling; and granular fill.

15. The Ministry indicated that these clearances facilitate pier and abutment footing construction without the interruption of train traffic and minimize the impact of train surcharge loads on the footings.

16. Analytical expressions are derived allowing the bearing capacity of strip footings resting on a soil where the water table is at some depth below the footing base to be calculated.

17. The ground floor panels are supported by posts screwed into the ground or alternatively by screw jack members secured to footings and accessed for screwing adjustment through holes in the top of the panel.