| step | |
| 1. n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | |
| 2. n. 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. n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. | |
| He improved step by step, or by steps. | |
| The first step is to find a job. | |
| 4. n. 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. n. 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. n. A small space or distance. | |
| It is but a step. | |
| 7. n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. | |
| 8. n. A gait; manner of walking. | |
| The approach of a man is often known by his step. | |
| 9. n. Proceeding; measure; action; act. | |
| 10. n. (plural) A walk; passage. | |
| 11. n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. | |
| 12. n. (nautical) 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. | |
| 13. n. (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. n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. | |
| 15. n. (music) 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 | |
| 16. n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. | |
| 17. n. (programming) 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. n. (slang) A stepsibling. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) 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. v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. | |
| to step to one of the neighbors | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination. | |
| 23. v. To set, as the foot. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. | |
