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Definition of Step
| v. i. | 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. | Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. | | v. t. | 1. | To set, as the foot. | | 2. | (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. | | n. | 1. | An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace. | | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | A small space or distance; as, it is but a step. | | 5. | A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. | | 6. | Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step. | | 7. | Proceeding; measure; action; an act. | | 8. | Walk; passage. | | 9. | A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. | | 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. | | 11. | (Mach.) 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. | | 12. | (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale. | | 13. | (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. | | 14. | (Fives) At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion. |
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