Word Meaning

step definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for step

- A pace
- Action taken to bring pets back
- Chickens have escaped – Stephens has rung
- Converse (with)
- Dance move
- Dance; level
- Degree of progress
- Go down
- In March, you might be out of it
- March, goose ...
- notable event for baby
- Pace
- Part of a process
- Phase
- Rung to ask what to keep when marching
- Single pace
- Stride
- to pace
- Tread (on ladder)
- Walk off set quietly