step

step definitions

• To dance. 

• To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. 

• To move mentally; to go in imagination. 

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

• 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 fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. 

• To set, as the foot. 

• The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. 

• The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale. 

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

• 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. 

• 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 print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. 

• Proceeding; measure; action; act. 

• 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 small space or distance. 

• 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. 

• A gait; manner of walking. 

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

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

• A change of position effected by a motion of translation. 

• A walk; passage. 

• A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. 

• A stepchild. 

• A stepsibling. 

• A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.