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1.nounAn advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
2.nounA 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.nounA distinct part of a process; stage; phase."He improved step by step, or by steps."
4.nounA 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."
5.nounThe space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running."One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less."
6.nounA small space or distance."It is but a step."
7.nounA print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
8.nounA gait; manner of walking."The approach of a man is often known by his step."
9.nounProceeding; measure; action; act.
10.noun(plural) A walk; passage.
11.noun(plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
12.nounA 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.
13.noun(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.
14.noun(machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
15.nounThe interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
16.noun(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
17.nounA constant difference between consecutive values in a series."Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9."
18.nounA stepsibling.
19.verbTo 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.
20.verbTo walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance."to step to one of the neighbors"
21.verbTo walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
22.verbTo move mentally; to go in imagination.
23.verbTo set, as the foot.
24.verbTo fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.