Any note used to document borrowed ideas or to further explain a detail outside of the main text The term usually refers to notes at the bottom of a page but may also include endnotes, which are found at the end of the text, and parenthetical notes, which are found within parentheses in the middle of the text
{i} reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter; direction to a comment which appears in the continuation of a document
If you refer to what you are saying as a footnote, you mean that you are adding some information that is related to what has just been mentioned. As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified
► full citation included on the bottom of the same page as the cited material
A footnote is a note at the bottom of a page in a book which provides more detailed information about something that is mentioned on that page
An extra, subsidiary, item of information that is placed between the running text and the footer (if present) There is a marker placed in the text to reference the note There is usually a line, (called a fence), separating the footnote from the body text
Explanatory material, usually marked by a sequential number or letter, that appears at the bottom, or "foot," of a document; a footnote usually comments or expands upon the main text to which it refers (see Endnote)
A short explanation of something in the main text or a citation of the source of the information
A note of reference, explanation, or comment placed below the text on the printed page
Information pertaining to financial statements, and located just below them, that may contain important facts affecting the interpretation of the financial statements
Anything stated by eyewitnesses, usually appearing in the last paragraph of a long article, e g " Palestinians claim that the reservists were actually part of a death squad and claim that it would be impossible for a person to end up in the middle of Ramallah by accident since that would require crossing an Israeli checkpoint, a Palestinian checkpoint, and traversing about 20 cross streets "
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text
a short note at the bottom of a page which is used to cite a reference (that is, tell the reader where you got a certain quote or statistic) A number or symbol is placed after the quote / statistic in the essay, and the footnote begins with the same symbol or number
If you describe an event as a footnote, you mean that it is fairly unimportant although it will probably be remembered. I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history
Note citing a particular source or making a brief explanatory comment and placed at the bottom of a page rather than at the end of the paper
a software feature you use to add a note that identifies the source of information in a report