step
- 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.
- Verb. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- Verb. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- Verb. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- Verb. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- Verb. (transitive) (nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its '''step'''; to erect.
- Noun. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- 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.
- Noun. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- Noun. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
- Noun. A small space or distance.
- Noun. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Noun. A gait; manner of walking.
- Noun. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- Noun. ((plural) ) A walk; passage.
- Noun. ''(plural):'' A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- 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.
- 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.
- Noun. (context, machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- Noun. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- Noun. (context, kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford .
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