step

Meaning of step

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.
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
A small space or distance.
It is but a step.
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
A gait; manner of walking.
The approach of a man is often known by his step.
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
(plural) A walk; passage.
(plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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.
The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
A stepsibling.

verb

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.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
to step to one of the neighbors
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
To set, as the foot.
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

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The plural form of step is: steps.
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