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FOOTPAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does footpad mean?
• FOOTPAD (noun)
The noun FOOTPAD has 1 sense:
1. a highwayman who robs on foot
Familiarity information: FOOTPAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A highwayman who robs on foot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
footpad; padder
Hypernyms ("footpad" is a kind of...):
highjacker; highwayman; hijacker; road agent (a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it)
Context examples
A laboratory specimen consisting of the foot and footpad.
(Foot/Footpad, NCI Thesaurus)
To better understand the mechanisms involved, the researchers analyzed levels of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), which has previously been linked to inflammatory bone disease, in the animals’ footpads.
(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)
It had five well-marked footpads, an indication of long nails, and the whole print might be nearly as large as a dessert-spoon.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
IL-1β protein concentrations were significantly increased in the footpads of regular-fed mutant mice, whereas levels in those fed a high-fat diet were comparable to healthy controls.
(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)
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