Definition of step

• a. - 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.
• a. - To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
• a. - To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• a. - Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. t. - To set, as the foot.
• v. t. - To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
• v. i. - An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
• v. i. - A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
• v. i. - The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
• v. i. - A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
• v. i. - A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• v. i. - Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
• v. i. - Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
• v. i. - Walk; passage.
• v. i. - A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• v. i. - In general, 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.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. i. - A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• v. i. - The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
• v. i. - A change of position effected by a motion of translation.