Definitions For Step

noun

• A flight of stairs or a flight of steps
• The course along which a person has walked or is walking in
• Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
• A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
• Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
• A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
• A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
• A musical interval of two semitones
• The sound of a step of someone walking
• The distance covered by a step
• A short distance
• Relative position in a graded series
• A movement made by lifting your foot and putting it down in a different place
• The sound of a foot making a step
• The distance covered in one step ; also : a short distance

verb

• Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
• Measure (distances) by pacing
• Place (a ship's mast) in its step
• Shift or move by taking a step
• Put down or press the foot, place the foot
• Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
• Move with one's feet in a specific manner
• Furnish with steps
• Treat badly
• Cause (a computer) to execute a single command
• To move in a specified direction by lifting your foot and putting it down in a different place : to move somewhere by walking
• To put your foot down