Meaning of STEP in English

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.

Use in sentences of STEP

Meaning of STEP in English

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.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
To set, as the foot.
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
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.
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.
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
Walk; passage.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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.
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.
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.