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Step (noun)
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Step (noun)
A small space or distance.
“It is but a step.”
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Step (noun)
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
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Step (noun)
A gait; manner of walking.
“The approach of a man is often known by his step.”
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Step (noun)
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
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Step (noun)
A walk; passage.
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Step (noun)
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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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.
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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.
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Step (noun)
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
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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.”
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Step (noun)
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
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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.”
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Step (noun)
A stepsibling.
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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.
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Step (verb)
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
“to step to one of the neighbors”
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Step (verb)
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
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Step (verb)
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
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Step (verb)
To set, as the foot.
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Step (verb)
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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Stoop (noun)
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
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Stoop (noun)
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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Stoop (noun)
A stooping, bent position of the body
“The old man walked with a stoop.”
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Stoop (noun)
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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Stoop (noun)
A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
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Stoop (noun)
A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
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Stoop (verb)
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
“He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”
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Stoop (verb)
To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one’s status, standards, or morals.
“Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers’ car keys until they agreed to the purchase?”
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Stoop (verb)
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
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Stoop (verb)
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
“to stoop a cask of liquor”
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Stoop (verb)
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
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Stoop (verb)
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
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Stoop (verb)
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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Stoop (verb)
To degrade.