单词 | footnote |
释义 | footnoten. 1. A note, reference, or additional piece of information printed at the bottom of a page, used to explain or comment on something in the main body of the text on the same page. Cf. end-note n. at end n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > [noun] > piece of somewhatc1175 communication1481 informationa1527 intelligence1570 adviso1591 intelligencies1623 data1645 footnote1711 steer1899 mail1975 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note > footnote footnote1711 bottom note1725 sub-note1744 sub-reference1825 1711 in W. Drummond Wks. Introd. p. xxxiv As you may see in the Foot-Note (i). ?1780 J. M'Millan Let. to Committee Associate Synod 47 The footnote confirms what I have observed in the beginning of my letter. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 88 Bottom notes..are also termed Foot Notes. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxiv. 360 It will not suffice to refer in a foot-note to the passages..where these words occur. 1913 Texas State Jrnl. Med. 9 265/1 The usual footnotes refer the reader to the source of the abstracted articles. 1957 William & Mary Q. 14 451 The paginal reference notes at the end of the volume in some measure provide a substitute for formal footnotes. 1986 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 781/3 Schmidt-Häuer's sources have to be taken on trust. There is not a footnote or endnote in sight. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 13/1 The horrible system of references employed, namely deploying endnotes, not footnotes. 2. Something which is additional, subordinate, or less important. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of secondary importance handmaidena1425 handmaid1533 anise1741 first (second) chop1823 secondary1841 footnote1858 bush league1928 1858 Spectator 16 Jan. 65/2 Inquiry itself is impossible in a land where the journals..are only permitted to exist so long as they make their news mere foot-notes to the sermons of the priesthood. 1892 R. L. Stevenson (title) A footnote to history. Eight years of trouble in Samoa. 1942 Sphere 15 Aug. 220/2 A significant footnote to China's great struggle. 1965 Listener 3 June 834/1 Sir Colin Coote's breezy, affectionate life of his friend Walter Elliot provides a useful footnote. 2014 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. b2/2 Without serious reforms, Abenomics will be little more than..a brief footnote in Japan's long slide into fiscal oblivion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). footnotev. transitive. To add a footnote or footnotes to. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate > furnish with footnote footnote1864 1864 Reader 21 May 645 Added to the poem, we have about 210 pages of ‘appendix-notes’, themselves again giving rise to foot-notes—after which comes a supplemental little poem..extensively footnoted too. 1893 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 3 190 Junius foot-notes a passing attack on Chatham thus. 1957 ABA Jrnl. Nov. 1009/3 Because of space limitations, the next seven paragraphs have not been footnoted. 2012 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Feb. 15 I have edited and translated and footnoted—yes, above all, it seems, footnoted—a 500-page collection of his correspondence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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