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Meaning Of Step
a.
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.
a.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as,
to step to one of the neighbors.
a.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
a.
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
v. t.
To set, as the foot.
v. t.
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
v. i.
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a
pace.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
v. i.
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
v. i.
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is
often known by his step.
v. i.
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
v. i.
Walk; passage.
v. i.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in
reaching to a high position.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a
vertical shaft revolves.
v. i.
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
v. i.
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.