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Pronunciation


Etymology 1

steppan

Verb

{{en-verb|step|p|ing}}

  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; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
  3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
  4. : Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. - Thomson?
  5. To move mentally; to go in imagination.
  6. : They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. - w:Alexander Pope|Alexander Pope
  7. To set, as the foot.
  8. To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.


Derived terms
  • in step
  • out of step
  • step by step
  • 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
    • to walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in
    • : Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. - John 5:4
    • To enter for a short time;
    • : I just stepped into the house
    • To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly;
  • :: to step into an estate
  • step out
    • (military) 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 (military) (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
Translations

Etymology 2

Old English stepe

Noun

step (plural: steps)

  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.
  3. 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.
  4. : The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. - Sir H. Wotton
  5. 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.
  6. : 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
  7. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
  8. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  9. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
  10. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
  11. : The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world. - Alexander Pope
  12. : Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. - William Cowper
  13. : I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses. - G. W. Cable
  14. (plural): Walk; passage.
  15. : Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. - John Dryden
  16. (plural): A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position
  17. 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.
  18. (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
  19. (Machines): A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  20. The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
  21. : 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.
  22. (Kinematics): A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - W. K. Clifford


Derived terms
  • 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

Translations

See also


Category:1000 English basic words Category:Gaits

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /stɛp/


Etymology 1

Noun

  1. steppe


Declension

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Etymology 2

Noun

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  1. tap dance


Declension

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stepped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stepping.] [AS. staeppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.
stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe
a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.
? to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. Stamp, n.
& a.]
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.
[1913 Webster]

2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;
as, to step to one of the neighbors.
[1913 Webster]

3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
[1913 Webster]

Home the swain retreats,
His flock before him stepping to the fold.
--Thomson.
[1913 Webster]

4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
[1913 Webster]

They are stepping almost three thousand years back
into the remotest antiquity. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to
retire from company.

To step forth, to move or come forth.

To step in or To step into.
(a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to
advance suddenly in.
[1913 Webster]

Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the
water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever
disease he had. --John v. 4.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the
house.
(c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon
easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.

To step out.
(a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,
of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.
(b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.

To step short (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of
the step according to the established rules.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Step \Step\, v. t.
1. To set, as the foot.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
[1913 Webster]

To 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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Step \Step\, n. [AS. staepe. See Step, v. i.]
1. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a
pace.
[1913 Webster]

2. 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.
[1913 Webster]

The breadth of every single step or stair should be
never less than one foot. --Sir H.
Wotton.
[1913 Webster]

3. 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.
[1913 Webster]

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. --Sir I.
Newton.
[1913 Webster]

4. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
[1913 Webster]

5. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
[1913 Webster]

6. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is
often known by his step.
[1913 Webster]

7. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
[1913 Webster]

The reputation of a man depends on the first steps
he makes in the world. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
--Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old
gentleman's distresses. --G. W. Cable.
[1913 Webster]

8. pl. Walk; passage.
[1913 Webster]

Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

9. pl. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in
reaching to a high position.
[1913 Webster]

10. (Naut.) 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.
[1913 Webster]

11. (Mach.)
(a) 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.
(b) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle
or a vertical shaft revolves.
[1913 Webster]

12. (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the
csale.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

13. (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of
translation. --W. K. Clifford.
[1913 Webster]

14. (Fives) At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing
the court into an inner and an outer portion.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Step- \Step-\ [AS. ste['o]p-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D.
& G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj?p-, Sw. styf-, and to AS.
[=a]st[=e]pan, [=a]ste['o]pan, to deprive, bereave, as
children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet step
n 1: any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the
situation called for strong measures"; "the police took
steps to reduce crime" [syn: measure]
2: the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces
from the old tree and began to dig" [syn: footstep, pace,
stride]
3: the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting
it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"
4: support consisting of a place to rest the foot while
ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the
bottom step" [syn: stair]
5: relative position in a graded series; "always a step
behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with
the fashions" [syn: gradation]
6: a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore" [syn:
stone's throw]
7: the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps
on the porch" [syn: footfall, footstep]
8: a musical interval of two semitones [syn: tone, {whole
tone}, whole step]
9: a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made
casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the
window" [syn: footprint, footmark]
10: a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a
ship's mast or capstan is fixed
11: a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular
dance; "he taught them the waltz step" [syn: dance step]
v 1: shift or move by taking a step; "step back"
2: put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush
in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake" [syn:
tread]
3: cause (a computer) to execute a single command
4: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always
stepping on others to get ahead" [syn: mistreat, maltreat,
abuse, ill-use, ill-treat]
5: furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the
terrace"
6: move with one's feet in a specific manner; "step lively"
7: walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified
manner; "step over to the blackboard"
8: place (a ship's mast) in its step
9: measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards" [syn: pace]
10: move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation; "She
stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his
father's footsteps"
[also: stepping, stepped]
Moby Dictionary
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 ,
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