Step

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance.
 * to step to one of the neighbors
 * 1)  To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
 * Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. - James Thomson
 * 1)  To move mentally; to go in imagination.
 * They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. - Alexander Pope
 * 1)  To set, as the foot.
 * 2)   To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: step (verb)


 * step aside (to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company)
 * step down
 * step forth (to move or come forth)
 * step forward
 * step in/step into
 * step-in


 * step out
 * To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches
 * To go out for a short distance or a short time
 * step short (to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules)
 * step off (to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers)
 * step up

Noun

 * 1) An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
 * 2) 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.
 * The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. - Sir Henry Wotton
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
 * One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
 * He improved step by step, or by steps.
 * To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy. - Isaac Newton
 * 1) A small space or distance.
 * It is but a step.
 * 1) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
 * 2) A gait; manner of walking.
 * The approach of a man is often known by his step.
 * 1) * 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
 * 1) Proceeding; measure; action; act.
 * The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world. - Alexander Pope
 * Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. - William Cowper
 * I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses. - G. W. Cable
 * 1) (NaN undefineds) A walk; passage.
 * Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. - John Dryden
 * 1) (plural): A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  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
 * 4)  A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
 * 5)  The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
 * Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
 * 1)  A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford

Derived terms

 * in step
 * out of step
 * step by step
 * stepwise
 * Back step, Half step, etc. See under back, half, etc.
 * Step grate: a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.
 * To take steps: to take action; to move in a matter.
 * one step at a time: slowly and cautiously

Synonyms

 * stride

Adjectives for Step
decisive; quickened; radical; important; imperious; weary; restless; tremulous; painful;pilgrim; homeless; elastic; impudent; lascivious; desperate; fainting; toiling; firm; unfaltering; cautious; single; false; dragging; light; fleet; ungainly; rugged; swinging; uncertain; innumerable; listless; fearless; certain; tottering; rapid; mincing; echoless; zigzag; winding; incomprehensible; successive; witching; assured; gradual; vast; desirable; inadvertent; laggard; graceful; stately; devious; backward; conquering; unpracticed; uneven; timid; reeling; feeble; dictating; trembling; buoyant; practicable; pregnant; irrevocable; gigantic; grassy; drastic; vacillating; sagging; suspended; joyful; dignified; requisite; sedative; long; slow; concluding; still; instinctive; honest; resounding; slackened; furtive; ponderous; social; doubtful; disordered; inevitable; slippery; military; languid; reluctant; ample; rustic; rude; parting; shuffled; hospitable; crunching; boundless; measurable; precautionary; gentle; weak; flagging; rosy; stone; jerky; comely; confident; hasty; gradual;  immense;  unhurrying; beehived; springy; homeward; irreverent; hushed; decorous; constructive; haughty; threatening; stealthy; undeviating; indispensable; silken; wandering; logical; subsequent; dainty; hazardous; momentous; bold; panting; finite; erratic; deft; noiseless; palsied; tottering; impious; soldierly; intermediate; martial; disspirited; stiff.

Verbs for Step
acclaim—; advance—; advocate—; applaud —; appraise—; approve—; ascend—; avert —; comprehend—; contrive—; defend—; design—; devise—; frame—; graduate—; lay out—; loll on—; lumber up—; map out —s; mount—; ooze down—s; plan—; recon¬sider—; regard—; regret—; retrace—s; rue —; scale—s; slant down—; slip down—s; steal down—s; survey—; systematize—; toil up—; trip down—; urge—; weigh—; — commences; —intrudes; —retreats; —s retrograde.

Adverbs for Step
iscreetly; mincingly; awkwardly; clumsily; boldly; gingerly; defiantly; noiselessly; deliberately; resolutely; reluctantly; majestically; fearlessly; shufflingly; stealthily.

Thesaurus
abdicate, accelerate, accomplished fact, accomplishment, according to, ace, achievement, act, acta, action, activity, ad hoc measure, adventure, amble, ambulate, amount, ankle, answer, appraise, appreciate, approach, appropriate to, arabesque, artifice, assay, assess, attempt, band, be alert, be careful, be cautious, bed, bedding, belt, bestride, bid, bit, blow, boost, boss, bound, bow out, bowshot, brief span, bump, bypass, calculate, caliber, calibrate, caliper, canter, career, chasse, check a parameter, circumambulate, clip, clop, close quarters, close range, colophon, compass, compute, concavity, consecutive intervals, consistent with, contrivance, conventional, convexity, couche, countermove, coup, coupe, course, course of action, crack, cross, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dealings, deck, decrease, deed, degree, demarche, dent, device, dial, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, diminish, dint, direction, divide, do something, dodge, doing, doings, doorstep, drag, droop, earreach, earshot, eccentric, effort, embossment, endeavor, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, enterprise, escalate, essay, estimate, evaluate, excrescence, exercise care, expedient, experiment, exploit, extent, fait accompli, fathom, feat, fifth, fingerprint, fling, floor, flounce, foot, foot it, footfall, footmark, footprint, footrest, footstep, ford, fossil footprint, fourth, fox-trot, gait, gallery, gallop, gambade, gambado, gambit, gauge, gest, get, get ahead of, gimmick, git, go, go across, go by, go out, gradation, grade, gradually, graduate, grapevine, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half step, halftone, hand, handiwork, hasten, height, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoof it, hoofbeat, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hurry up, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, improve, improvisation, in keeping with, in step with, inch, increase, indent, indentation, indention, initiative, intensify, intercede, interfere, interval, intervene, jaywalk, job, jog, jog on, journey, journeying, jump, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kinky, last expedient, last resort, last shift, layer, leap, leave, ledge, leg, leg it, less semitone, level, lick, limp, little, little ways, lock step, look, lope, lump, lurch, make haste, make tracks, makeshift, maneuver, mark, means, measure, measures, melodic interval, mensurate, mete, meter, mince, mincing steps, motion, move, movement, notch, note, nuance, octave, offbeat, offer, operation, overlayer, overstory, overstride, overt act, pace, pad, paddle, parallel octaves, pas, pass, pass by, pass over, passage, path, paw print, pawmark, pedestrianize, peg, perambulate, performance, period, peripateticate, piaffer, pimple, pis aller, pistol shot, pitch, plane, plateau, plumb, point, prance, print, prize, probe, procedure, proceed, proceeding, process, production, progress, progression, proportion, pug, pugmark, quantify, quantize, quickstep, quit, rack, raise, range, rate, ratio, reach, reduce, remove, res gestae, resign, resort, resource, rest, retire, riser, roll, round, route, routine, run, rundle, rung, saunter, scale, scope, scuttle, seal, seam, secede, second, semitone, seventh, shade, shadow, shake-up, shamble, shelf, shift, shoot ahead of, short distance, short piece, short way, shot, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, sigil, signet, single-foot, sixth, size, size up, skip, slink, slither, slouch, slowly, slowness, socialize, solution, sound, space, span, speed up, spitting distance, spoke, spoor, spring, sprint, stab, stage, stagger, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, stalk, stamp, standard, stave, steadily, step along, step by step, step down, step in, step lively, step on it, step out, step stool, step up, stepladder, stepping-stone, steps, stint, stoop, stopgap, story, straddle, stratagem, stratum, stride, string, stroke, stroke of policy, stroll, strolling gait, strong bid, strut, stud, stump it, stunt, substratum, superstratum, survey, swagger, swing, tactic, take a reading, take care, take heed, take steps, temporary expedient, tentative, thickness, thing, thing done, third, thumbmark, thumbprint, tier, toddle, tone, topsoil, totter, tour de force, trace, track, tract, traditional, traipse, transaction, travel, travels, tread, trial, trial and error, triangulate, trick, trip, troop, trot, trump, try, turn, unconventional, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertaking, unison interval, up, valuate, value, velocity, vestige, waddle, walk, way, weigh, whack, whole step, withdraw, work, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, zone

Etymology 1
steppan:

Etymology 2
stepe:

Verb

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 * Hungarian:, lépdel
 * Japanese: 踏む, 踏み出す, 踏み入れる
 * Polish: zrobić krok


 * Romanian: păşi
 * Russian: шагать, шагнуть; ступать , ступить
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 * Slovene: korakati
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 * : 走 (zǒu), 步行 (bùxíng)
 * : astuma
 * : treten, schreiten
 * : caminar
 * : adım atmak
 * : adım atmak

Noun

 * Arabic: خطوة
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 * Armenian:
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 * Armenian:
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 * Japanese: ひとまたぎ
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 * Arabic: خطوة
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 * Russian:
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 * Arabic: قيافة, مشية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 步態, 步态
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 * Japanese: 足並み, 歩き方,


 * Polish: chód,
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 * : adım
 * : korak
 * : stap
 * : pas
 * : βήμα (víma)
 * : צעד (tza'ad)
 * : skref
 * : pazo
 * : passo


 * : 단계 (dangye), 걸음 (georeum)
 * Kurmancî: gav, pêngav
 * Soranî:
 * : krok
 * : passo, etapa
 * : korak
 * : steg
 * : adım
 * : adım

Anagrams

 * pest
 * pets
 * sept, Sept.

Noun

 * 1) steppe

Noun
inanimate


 * 1) tap dance

Noun

 * 1) steppe