walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
move with one's feet in a specific manner
put down or press the foot, place the foot
cause (a computer) to execute a single command
treat badly
furnish with steps
a short distance
the distance covered by a step
relative position in a graded series
measure (distances) by pacing
move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
a musical interval of two semitones
a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
the sound of a step of someone walking
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.
Satellite telecommunication experiment project
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.
