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1. Meaning 1 · noun

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

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   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.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

   “He improved step by step, or by steps.”

4. Meaning 4 · noun

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

   “The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

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

   “One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.”

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   A small space or distance.

   “It is but a step.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

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

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   A gait; manner of walking.

   “The approach of a man is often known by his step.”

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   Proceeding; measure; action; act.

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    (plural) A walk; passage.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

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

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    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.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    (machines) 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.

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

16. Meaning 16 · noun

    (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

17. Meaning 17 · noun

    A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

    “Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.”

18. Meaning 18 · noun

    A stepsibling.

19. Meaning 19 · verb

    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.

20. Meaning 20 · verb

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

    “to step to one of the neighbors”

21. Meaning 21 · verb

    To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

22. Meaning 22 · verb

    To move mentally; to go in imagination.

23. Meaning 23 · verb

    To set, as the foot.

24. Meaning 24 · verb

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

How this word is used

• General “He improved step by step, or by steps.”
• General “The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.”
• General “One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.”
• General “It is but a step.”
• General “The approach of a man is often known by his step.”
• General “Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.”
• General “to step to one of the neighbors”

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