step

Definitions

• An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• 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.
• A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• A small space or distance.
• A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• A gait; manner of walking.
• Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• (plural) A walk; passage.
• (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
• (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.
• (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• (slang) A stepsibling.