Footnote vs. Endnote — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Footnote and Endnote
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Footnote
A note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text.
Endnote
A note at the end of an article, chapter, or book that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text.
Footnote
Something related to but of lesser importance than a larger work or occurrence
A political scandal that was but a footnote to modern history.
Endnote
An annotation placed at the end of a document or chapter of a document.
Footnote
To furnish with or comment on in footnotes.
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Footnote
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.
Consult the footnotes for more details
Footnote
(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
A mere footnote in history
Footnote
A qualification to the import of something.
Footnote
To add footnotes to a text.
Footnote
A note of reference or comment at the foot{4} of a page.
Footnote
A printed note placed below the text on a printed page
Footnote
Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments;
The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel
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