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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

... melancholy, humming monotone pervaded the ravine, seeming to increase in remonstrance and warning the higher I ascended. Wylo had told of the noise like a steamer's whistle a long way off. His local knowledge was being authenticated at every step. Such a sound was almost uncouth in such a locality; and there, overhanging a jutting angle of red rock, was the predicted bush with keen prickles thickset on limber branches. Half amused, I climbed to the spot, and, clinging precariously to the principal ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... when the enveloping waters rose about him. He plunged. He staggered. . . . His senses after a few moments were bludgeoned into numbness by the roar of the sea; his body was sore from the impact of beating water and stinging gravel. He struggled on step by step, feeling his way along the shifting beach, until only the primal instinct of self-preservation was guiding him in the grim game with ...

— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby

... like Clodius's, so that he grew exceedingly angry, yet could not stir: thus nominally Milo was condemned, but in reality Pompey was convicted without even making a defence. For Clodius went one step farther and would not allow the lex curiata to be brought up for discussion; and until that was enacted no other serious business could be transacted in the commonwealth or any ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

... of the tower and from behind it came dozens of people, and down the long steps, alone, came Mr. Noah, moving with careful dignity and carrying his yellow mat neatly rolled under his arm. All the people clapped their hands, till Mr. Noah, standing on the third step, raised his ...

— The Magic City • Edith Nesbit

... all that, Rube," he said. "I've made many a false step, fallen into many a mistake I ought to have avoided. Only this morning, you know, I made the mistake of shoving Broken Feather into the lean-to without looking if there was a ...

— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

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