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Step Definition

step

See also step-, and stęp

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English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjanan (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stÁb-, *stÁbʰ-, *stemb-, *stembʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”). Related to stamp, stomp.

Verb

step (third-person singular simple present steps, present participle stepping, simple past stepped, stept (dated), or stope (obsolete), past participle stepped, stept (dated), or stopen (obsolete))

  1. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
    to step to one of the neighbors
  3. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
    Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. - James Thomson
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
    They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. - Alexander Pope
  5. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
  6. (transitive) (nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Derived terms
terms derived from the verb step
  • step out
    • (military) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches
    • To go out for a short distance or a short time
  • step short (military) (to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules)
  • step off (to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers)
  • step up
Translations
intransitive: to move the foot in walking
  • Armenian: քայլել (hy) (k'aylel)
  • Czech: kráčet (cs)
  • Dutch: stappen (nl)
  • Finnish: astua (fi)
  • Hungarian: lép (hu), lépdel (hu)
  • Japanese: 踏む (ja) (ふむ, fumu), 踏み出す (ja) (ふみだす, fumi-dasu), 踏み入れる (ja) (ふみいれる, fumi-ireru)
  • Polish: zrobić krok (pl)
intransitive: to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance
intransitive: to walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely
intransitive, figuratively: to move mentally
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
  • Swahili: hatua (sw)
transitive: to set, as the foot
transitive, nautical: to erect
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Etymology 2

Old English stepe

Noun

step (plural steps)

  1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
  2. 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.
    The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. - Sir Henry Wotton
  3. A 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.
  4. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
    One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
    He improved step by step, or by steps.
    To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy. - Isaac Newton
  5. A small space or distance.
    It is but a step.
  6. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  7. A gait; manner of walking.
    The approach of a man is often known by his step.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
      Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
  8. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
    The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world. - Alexander Pope
    Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. - William Cowper
    I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses. - G. W. Cable
  9. (plural) A walk; passage.
    Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. - John Dryden
  10. (plural): A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
  11. (nautical) 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.
  12. (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
  13. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  14. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
    Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
  15. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun "step"
Synonyms
Translations
pace
one of a set of rests in a stair or ladder
running board
  • Danish: trinbræt (da) n.
  • Finnish: askelma (fi), astinlauta (fi)
  • Japanese: 段 (ja) (だん, dan)
  • Russian: подножка (ru) (podnóžka) f.
  • Swahili: hatua (sw)
space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running
  • Romanian: pas (ro) m., pași (ro) m. pl.
  • Russian: шаг (ru) (šag) m.
  • Slovene: korak (sl) m.
  • Swahili: hatua (sw)
  • Swedish: steg (sv) n.
  • Ukrainian: крок (uk) (krok) m.
small space or distance
  • Armenian: քայլ (hy) (k'ayl)
  • Finnish: askel (fi), kukonaskel (fi)
  • Japanese: ひとまたぎ (ja) (hito-magtagi)
  • Polish: krok (pl) m.
footstep
  • Russian: след (ru) (sl'ed) m.
  • Slovene: stopinja (sl) f., sled (sl) f.
  • Swahili: hatua (sw)
  • Swedish: fotspår (sv) n., fotsteg (sv) n.
manner of walking
  • Arabic: قيافة (ar) (qiyaafa) f., مشية (ar) (mishya) f.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 步態 (cmn), 步态 (cmn) (bùtài)
  • Danish: gang (da) c.
  • Finnish: askelet (fi)
  • German: Schritt (de) m.
  • Japanese: 足並み (ja) (あしなみ, ashi-nami), 歩き方 (ja) (あるきかた, aruki-kata), 足音 (ja) (あしおと, ashi-oto)
  • Polish: chód (pl) m., krok (pl) m.
  • Romanian: pas (ro)
  • Russian: походка (ru) (poxódka) f., поступь (ru) (póstup') f.
  • Slovene: hoja (sl) f.
  • Spanish: paso (es) m.
  • Swahili: hatua (sw)
  • Swedish: gång (sv) c., gångstil (sv) c.
  • Ukrainian: хода (uk) (xodá) f.
proceeding; measure; action; act
plural: walk; passage
plural: portable framework of stairs
  • Finnish: tikkaat (fi) pl.
  • Japanese: 踏み台 (ja) (ふみだい, fumidai)
nautical: framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft
  • Finnish: jalusta (fi)
  • Japanese: 檣座 (ja) (しょうざ, shōza)
machinery: one of a series of offsets, resembling the steps of stairs
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
machinery: bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves
  • Finnish: kannatinlaakeri (fi)
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
music: interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale
kinematics: change of position effected by a motion of translation
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

step f.

  1. steppe
Declension
declension of step
singular plural
nominative step stepi
genitive stepi stepí
dative stepi stepem
accusative step stepi
vocative stepi stepi
locative stepi stepech
instrumental stepí stepmi

Etymology 2

Noun

step m. inanimate

  1. tap dance
Declension
declension of step
singular plural
nominative step stepy
genitive stepu stepů
dative stepu stepům
accusative step stepy
vocative stepe stepy
locative stepu stepech
instrumental stepem stepy

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on: Step

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Pronunciation

Noun

step m.

  1. steppe

Declension

declension of step
singular plural
nominative step stepy
genitive stepu stepów
dative stepowi stepom
accusative step stepy
instrumental stepem stepami
locative stepie stepach
vocative stepie stepy

 

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up step, step-, or steps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Step or Steps may refer to:
  • Walk
  • Dance step, the building block of many dances
  • Military step, a regular, ordered and synchronized walking of military formations
    • Marching, refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops
  • Edward Step (1855–1931), author of books on various aspects of nature
  • Step (air base), a Soviet/Russian military facility in Chita Oblast
  • Step (footing), a horizontal platform of a stairway
  • Steps (group), a British pop group (from 1997)
  • Step (Kara album), a 2011 album by South Korean girl group Kara
  • Step (Meg album), a 2007 album by Japanese technopop singer-lyricist MEG
  • "Step" (song), a song by Korean pop girl group Kara. It is the group's title track from their third full-length album Step and was released to online music sites on September, 6 2011
  • Step (music), an interval between two consecutive scale degrees
  • Step (software), the physics simulator included in KDE
  • Steps (TVB), a Hong Kong television series
  • Steps, a National Book Award winning novel by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Step aerobics, aerobic exercise which uses an elevated platform
  • Step dance, a dance style where the footwork is the most important part of the dance
  • Step function, in mathematics
  • Stepfamily, reconstituted family, is a family in which one or both members of the couple have children from a previous relationship
  • A "step", moving from line to line in a mathematical proof using rules of logical inference
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