Meaning

11 senses

  1. The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.

    Fußabdruck, Fußspur, Fußstapfen

    следsled, отпеча́токotpečátok

    слідslid, відби́токvidbýtok

  2. Space required by a piece of equipment.

    This computer has a smaller footprint.

    Fußabdruck

  3. The amount of hard drive space required for a program.

    Standfläche, Aufstandsfläche

  4. The audit trail left by a crashed program.

  5. A trace left behind that gives evidence of some action having occurred.

  6. (figuratively, in the plural)What a person has done before, as a profession or lifestyle, serving as a model for others.

    He is following in his father's footprints.

  7. The surface space occupied by a structure.

    the footprint of a building

    Gehäusegeometrie, Grundfläche, Stellfläche

  8. A company's geographic market presence.

    The store, which is slated to open next month, increases the company's footprint in the market to 14 locations.

  9. The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.

    My carbon footprint is very high.

  10. Availability of a satellite from the ground.

    Ausleuchtzone

    зо́на обслу́живанияzóna obslúživanija, зо́на покры́тияzóna pokrýtija

  11. A polygon representing the shape of an item.

    building footprint

More definitions
  • the area taken up by some object
  • a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
  • a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important

Examples

180 sentences

  1. We found the footprints in the sand.

    Ми знайшли сліди на піску. — deniko

    ruМы обнаружили следы на песке. — sharptoothed

    deWir haben die Fußspuren im Sand gefunden. — BraveSentry

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  2. Did you see any footprints?

    Ти бачив якісь сліди? — deniko

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  3. I don't see any footprints anywhere.

    ruЯ нигде не вижу никаких следов. — AntonKhorev

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  4. I wonder whose footprints these are.

    ruИнтересно, чьи это следы? — Wezel

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  5. Tom saw footprints in the mud.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the impression of the foot:
Русский
By meaning 2
the impression of the foot:
availability of a satellite from the ground:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
the impression of the foot:
(computing) amount of hard drive space required for a program.:
surface space occupied by a structure:
availability of a satellite from the ground:

Origin

From foot + print.

From foot + print.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: footprints
Singularfootprint
Pluralfootprints

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
footmarkichnogram
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words
Derivedcarbon footprintB2cyberfootprintdigital footprintecofootprintecological footprintfoodprintfootprintedfootprintingnoise footprintplastic footprintwater footprint

Collocations

8 patterns
  • footprints in the
  • muddy footprints on
  • footprints on the
  • muddy footprints
  • saw footprints in
  • footprints of an
  • there were footprints
  • saw footprints

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
footingfootnoteB2footpathfootsiefootstepfootstoolfootwear

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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