Stairs
A stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs, or simply stairs is a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. Stairs may be straight, round, or may consist of two or more straight pieces connected at angles.
Special types of stairs include escalators and ladders. Some alternatives to stairs are elevators (lifts in British English), stairlifts and inclined moving walkways as well as stationary inclined sidewalks (pavements in British English).
Step (noun)
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
Step (noun)
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.
Step (noun)
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
“He improved step by step, or by steps.”
“The first step is to find a job.”
Step (noun)
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.”
Step (noun)
The 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.”
Step (noun)
A small space or distance.
“It is but a step.”
Step (noun)
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Step (noun)
A gait; manner of walking.
“The approach of a man is often known by his step.”
Step (noun)
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
Step (noun)
A walk; passage.
Step (noun)
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Step (noun)
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.
Step (noun)
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.
Step (noun)
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
Step (noun)
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.”
Step (noun)
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Step (noun)
A 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.”
Step (noun)
A stepsibling.
Step (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.
Step (verb)
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
“to step to one of the neighbors”
Step (verb)
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Step (verb)
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
Step (verb)
To set, as the foot.
Step (verb)
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Stairs (noun)
plural of stair
Stairs (noun)
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.