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.
Stoop (noun)
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
Stoop (noun)
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
Stoop (noun)
A stooping, bent position of the body
“The old man walked with a stoop.”
Stoop (noun)
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
Stoop (noun)
A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Stoop (noun)
A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
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.”
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?”
Stoop (verb)
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
Stoop (verb)
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
“to stoop a cask of liquor”
Stoop (verb)
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoop (verb)
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoop (verb)
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoop (verb)
To degrade.