| 单词 | footprint |
| 释义 | footprint (once / 1362 pages) n A footprint is the mark left by your feet on the ground or floor. If you dog runs away from you on the beach, you might find her by following her footprints in the sand. Your dad might scold you for tracking footprints across the clean kitchen floor — or you might hurry outside after a blizzard to be the first person in your neighborhood to make footprints in the fresh snow. A footprint is proof that you were there: similarly, a figurative kind of footprint is evidence of someone or something's presence or influence. For example, a company's "carbon footprint" is the amount of polluting greenhouse gas it emits. WORD FAMILYfootprint: footprints USAGE EXAMPLES“The information seems to be like a footprint that artists leave in their art,” Forsythe said. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) The deal expands AMC’s footprint at a relatively healthy time for the exhibition industry. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) Agriculture is also included in the sustainability plans of cities such as Seattle, Washington, to reduce its carbon footprint and green the infrastructure. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) 1n a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window Syn|Hypo|Hyper footmark, step footprint evidence evidence in the form of footprints mark, print a visible indication made on a surface 2n a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important the footprints of an earlier civilization Hyper shadow, tincture, trace, vestige an indication that something has been present 3n the area taken up by some object the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches Hyper area, expanse, surface area the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary |
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