What is another word for footplate?

Pronunciation: [fˈʊtple͡ɪt] (IPA)

Footplate is a commonly used term in the field of transportation and mechanical engineering. Also known as a footboard or a runner board, it is the platform or plate where a person can place their foot to operate or control a machine or vehicle. The word footplate can be replaced or described using synonyms such as the footing, the platform, the pedal, the step, and the board. Some industries may also use specific terms to refer to the footplate, for instance, the cab of a train or the cockpit of an aircraft. Regardless of the word used to describe it, the essential function of the footplate remains the same, and it provides stability and control to the operator.

What are the hypernyms for Footplate?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Footplate?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for footplate (as nouns)

What are the holonyms for Footplate?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Footplate

From time to time, Buck Bradley stopped his shoveling, and, holding by a hand-rail, leaned far out from the footplate, scanning the metals that stretched out in two parallel lines ahead.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
An acclimatised Britisher, he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as it were, through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever...
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Kent clambered to the footplate of the smart eight-wheeler.
"The Grafters"
Francis Lynde

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