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Step

noun

1.

Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal. Synonym: measure. "The police took steps to reduce crime"

2.

The distance covered by a step. Synonyms: footstep, pace, stride.

3.

The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down.

4.

Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway. Synonym: stair.

5.

Relative position in a graded series. Synonym: gradation. "Subtle gradations in color" , "Keep in step with the fashions"

6.

A short distance. Synonym: stone's throw.

7.

The sound of a step of someone walking. Synonyms: footfall, footstep.

8.

A musical interval of two semitones. Synonyms: tone, whole step, whole tone.

9.

A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface. Synonyms: footmark, footprint.

10.

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

11.

A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance. Synonym: dance step.

verb

(past & past part. stepped; pres. part. stepping)

1.

Shift or move by taking a step.

2.

Put down or press the foot, place the foot. Synonym: tread. "Step on the brake"

3.

Cause (a computer) to execute a single command.

4.

Treat badly. Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat. "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

5.

Furnish with steps.

6.

Move with one's feet in a specific manner.

7.

Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner.

8.

Place (a ship's mast) in its step.

9.

Measure (distances) by pacing. Synonym: pace.

10.

Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation. "He won't step into his father's footsteps"

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"Step" Quotes from Famous Books

... more the sails would give a loud flap, and hang down without a particle of wind in them. At length, however, they once more bulged out. The yards were squared away. The captain walked the deck with a more elastic step than for the last week had been the case, and on the ship went hour after hour, the breeze rather increasing ...

— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... under a truck or into an empty doorway and sleep exactly as well? So long as they brought home a half dollar for each day, what mattered it when they brought it? But Jurgis declared that from this to ceasing to come at all would not be a very long step, and so it was decided that Vilimas and Nikalojus should return to school in the fall, and that instead Elzbieta should go out and get some work, her place at home being taken ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... the scanner screen on the control deck of the rocket cruiser Polaris, Captain Steve Strong replaced the microphone in its slot and watched a bulky figure in a space suit step out of the air lock and drift away from the side of the ship. Behind him, five boys, all dressed in the vivid blue uniforms of the Space Cadet Corps, strained forward to watch the lone figure adjust the nozzles of the jet unit on the back of ...

— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell

... little Sarah's sobs ceased speedily, for she, too, felt the folly of fruitless tears. Though she nursed in her breast the sense of injury, she would even resume her amicable romps with Isaac. But the moment the step of the avenger was heard on the stairs, little Sarah would betake herself to the corner and howl with the pain of Isaac's pummellings. She had a strong love of abstract justice and felt that if the wrongdoer were to go unpunished, there was no security ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... belfry—which fell in and destroyed the nave. What was the date?— 1412. And they both had been rebuilt together—on the call of Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter—in the August of that year. He read on, the familiar at each step opening new bypaths into the unguessed. But the delight of delights was to hug, while he read, his purpose to change all this story of ruin, to give it a new and happier chapter, to stand out eminent among the forgotten Vicars of Langona. ...

— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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