| • | 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. |
| • | To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors. |
| • | To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. |
| • | Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. |
| • | To set, as the foot. |
| • | To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. |
| • | An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A small space or distance; as, it is but a step. |
| • | A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. |
| • | Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step. |
| • | Proceeding; measure; action; an act. |
| • | Walk; passage. |
| • | A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. |
| • | The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale. |
| • | A change of position effected by a motion of translation. |
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