noun
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- 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.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (plural) A walk; passage.
- (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (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.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- A stepsibling.
Synonyms: stride
verb
- 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; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To set, as the foot.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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