Lexic.us

Definition of Step

1. Noun. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal. "The police took steps to reduce crime"

2. Verb. Shift or move by taking a step. "Step back"

3. Verb. Put down or press the foot, place the foot. "Step on the brake"

4. Noun. The distance covered by a step. "He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

5. Verb. Cause (a computer) to execute a single command.

6. Noun. The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down. "He walked with unsteady steps"

7. Verb. Treat badly. "They want to step the prisoners "; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

8. Noun. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway. "He paused on the bottom step"

9. Verb. Furnish with steps. "The architect wants to step the terrace"

10. Noun. Relative position in a graded series. "Keep in step with the fashions"

11. Verb. Move with one's feet in a specific manner. "Step lively"

12. Noun. A short distance. "It's only a step to the drugstore"

13. Verb. Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner. "Step over to the blackboard"

14. Noun. The sound of a step of someone walking. "He heard footsteps on the porch"

15. Verb. Place (a ship's mast) in its step.

16. Noun. A musical interval of two semitones.

17. Verb. Measure (distances) by pacing. "Step off ten yards"

18. Noun. A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface. "The police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"

19. Noun. A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed.

20. Verb. Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation. "He won't step into his father's footsteps"

21. Noun. A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance. "He taught them the waltz step"

Definition of Step

1. v. i. 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.

2. v. t. To set, as the foot.

3. n. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

4. n. At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.

Definition of Step

1. 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. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To set, as the foot. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) (nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its '''step'''; to erect. ¹

7. Noun. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. ¹

8. Noun. 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. ¹

9. Noun. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus. ¹

10. Noun. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress. ¹

11. Noun. A small space or distance. ¹

12. Noun. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. ¹

13. Noun. A gait; manner of walking. ¹

14. Noun. Proceeding; measure; action; act. ¹

15. Noun. ((plural) ) A walk; passage. ¹

16. Noun. ''(plural):'' A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. ¹

17. Noun. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast. ¹

18. Noun. (context: 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 ¹

19. Noun. (context: machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. ¹

20. Noun. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale. ¹

21. Noun. (context: kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Step

1. to move by lifting the foot and setting it down in another place [v STEPPED, STEPPING, STEPS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Step

stens stent stented stenting stentor stentorian stentorin stentorins stentorious stentoriously

stentorophonic stentors stentour stentours stents step (current term) step- step-aunt step-aunts step-by-step

step-cousin step-cousins step-dance step-down step-down transformer step-father step-fathers step-in step-ins step-nephew

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