step.
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
Meaning & usage
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.
The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
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.
A walk; passage.
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.
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.
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
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.
Kick scooter.
Stepping (style of dance)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.
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 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 don with a stepping action.
He stepped into his pants.
To walk; to go (on foot, especially) a little distance.
Come one, come all. Step right up!
The convention roared as the president stepped to the podium.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
To dance.
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
To set, as the foot.
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
To depart.
You best step, cuz things are about to jump off.
To be confrontational.
You tryna be steppin right now? You better bring it if so.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.
A stepchild.
A stepsibling.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English stepchildclip. Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Germanic *steupa- Proto-West Germanic *steupa- Old English stēop- Middle English step- English step- English sibling English stepsiblingclip. English step Clipping of stepchild and stepsibling.
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