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step
English
- 🔊 the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down“he walked with unsteady steps”
- 🔊 support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway“he paused on the bottom step”
- 🔊 a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- 🔊 a short distance“it's only a step to the drugstore”
- 🔊 any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal“the situation called for strong measures”
- 🔊 a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance“he taught them the waltz step”
- 🔊 relative position in a graded series“always a step behind”
- 🔊 a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface“the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window”
- 🔊 a musical interval of two semitones
- 🔊 the sound of a step of someone walking“he heard footsteps on the porch”
- 🔊 the distance covered by a step“he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig”
- 🔊 move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation“She stepped into a life of luxury”
- 🔊 place (a ship's mast) in its step
- 🔊 shift or move by taking a step“step back”
- 🔊 put down or press the foot, place the foot“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
- 🔊 walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner“step over to the blackboard”
- 🔊 move with one's feet in a specific manner“step lively”
- 🔊 furnish with steps“The architect wants to step the terrace”
- 🔊 cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- 🔊 measure (distances) by pacing“step off ten yards”
- 🔊 treat badly“This boss abuses his workers”
Spanish
- 🔊 grado step
- 🔊 escalón step, stage
- 🔊 peldaño step, stair (single step in a staircase)
- 🔊 peldaño step, rung (crosspiece forming a step of a ladder)