step
IPA: stˈɛp
noun
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- (US) Initialism of Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.
verb
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To dance.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
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Examples of "step" in Sentences
- Jenny has tipping steps.
- He stepped on the threshold.
- The steps are the same for the lady.
- Heresy stepped in to widen the breach.
- It is the second step of a convergent approach.
- Is there anybody to review it to retrace the steps
- Describe the steps in the synthesis of a polypeptide.
- It is impermissible for anyone to step outside of that.
- I was very impressed with your \ "step by step\" approach.
- _Following meant keeping in step with God, never missing step_.
- Chloride from the electrolysis step is used for the chlorination step.
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- Now we can see doe eyed Alice step through the looking glass and onto the stage with a pretty pirouette.
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- Alice knew his step, she knew _his horse's step_ too well; she had raised herself up and stretched out both arms towards him before he entered.
- Alice knew his step, she knew _his horse's step_ too well; she had raised herself up, and stretched out both arms towards him before he entered.
- In Europe, generations and centuries prepared the way for this novelty; medieval philosophy and theocratic organization had been transformed step by step .
- "And then her voice began _to drop down_, as it were, _from step to step_, -- and _the steps seemed cold and damp, as it went down them lingeringly_: -- 'or for trial, -- disappointment, -- whatever comes!'
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