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the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch"

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"

a musical interval of two semitones

a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"

a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"

measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"

place (a ship's mast) in its step

shift or move by taking a step; "step back"

put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"

walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner; "step over to the blackboard"

move with one's feet in a specific manner; "step lively"

furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace"

treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

cause (a computer) to execute a single command

the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch"

a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; a clue that someone was present; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"

a musical interval of two semitones

a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"

take a step

At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.

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; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

To set, as the foot.

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

An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.

The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.

A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.

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

Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.

Proceeding; measure; action; an act.

Walk; passage.

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

In general, 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.

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 intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.

A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.

At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.

A movement made by the foot in walking, running, etc.; a pace; the distance passed over by a single movement of the foot in walking or running; footprint; manner of walking; gait; as, a steady step; a single tread in a flight of stairs; action; measure; as, the first step in an undertaking; grade; degree; as, to advance a step in a profession; an interval between two tones in a musical scale.

To move the foot backward or forward, etc., and put it down, as in walking, dancing, etc.; to walk a short distance; as, to step around the corner; to walk slowly or with dignity.

To set, as the foot; measure by steps; as, to step off the length of a room; fix the foot of in its frame, and so erect, as a mast.

Stepped.

Stepping.

A pace: the distance crossed by the foot in walking or running: a small space: degree: one remove in ascending or descending a stair: round of a ladder: footprint: manner of walking: proceeding: action:-pl. walk: a self-supporting ladder with flat steps..

To set, as a foot: to fix, as a mast:-pr.p. stepping; pa.t and pa.p. stepped.

A pace; small space or distance; degree; stair; footprint; proceeding.

To fix, as a mast.

To move by pacing; walk.

Step-daughter.

Step-daughter.

To place set, or move, as the foot.

To set (a mast) in a socket.

To take a step or steps; move the feet.

A motion by change of position of a foot.

The distance passed over by one movement of the foot.

That upon which the foot is placed in ascending or descending.

An advance or promotion.

Walk; gait.

A footprint.

An interval between tones.

A prefix denoting relationship through the marriage only of a parent, and not by blood.

Stepbrother.

Stepchild.

Stepfather.

Stepsister.

Stepson.

n. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot ; a pace ;-one remove in ascending or descending a stair ;-space passed by the foot in walking or running ;-a small space or distance ;-gradation ; degree ;-act of advancement ; progression ;-footprint ; track ; trace; vestige;-gait; manner of walking;-proceeding; measure; action ;­the round or rundle of a ladder;-one of the larger diatonic degrees or intervals of the scale;-pl. A portable framework of stairs;-a block of wood or a solid platform on the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast ;-a kind of bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.