Step

verb

  1. 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.

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  2. To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.

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  3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

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  4. To move mentally; to go in imagination.

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  5. To set, as the foot.

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

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noun

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

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  2. 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.

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  3. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

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

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  5. A small space or distance.

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  6. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

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  7. A gait; manner of walking.

    walking

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  8. Proceeding; measure; action; act.

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  9. A walk; passage.

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  10. : A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

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  13. A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

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  14. The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

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  15. A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford.

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