The difference between Football and Footer
When used as nouns, football means a sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team, whereas footer means a footgoer.
Footer is also verb with the meaning: to meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
check bellow for the other definitions of Football and Footer
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Football as a noun (general):
A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
Examples:
"Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football."
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Football as a noun (UK, uncountable):
Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Examples:
"Each team scored three goals when they played football."
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Football as a noun (US, uncountable):
American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Examples:
"Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football."
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Football as a noun (Canada, uncountable):
Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Examples:
"They played football in the snow."
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Football as a noun (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable):
Australian rules football.
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Football as a noun (Ireland, uncountable):
Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
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Football as a noun (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable):
rugby league.
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Football as a noun (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand):
rugby union.
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Football as a noun (countable):
The ball used in any game called "football".
Examples:
"The player kicked the football."
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Football as a noun (uncountable):
Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
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Football as a noun (figuratively, countable):
An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
Examples:
"That budget item became a political football."
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Football as a noun (slang, US, countable):
The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
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Footer as a noun (archaic):
A footgoer; pedestrian
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Footer as a noun (computing):
A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare foot, 12).
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Footer as a noun (in combination):
something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer.
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Footer as a noun (in combination):
someone who has a preference for a certain foot - such as right-footer/left-footer
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Footer as a noun (chiefly, British, slang):
Football / soccer.
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Footer as a verb (Ireland, &, Scotland, slang):
To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
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