Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STEP

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Definitions of STEP

1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
2. 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.
3. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
4. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
5. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
6. A small space or distance.
7. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
8. A gait; manner of walking.
9. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
10. The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
11. To dance.
12. (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
13. (colloquial) A stepsibling.
14. (in the plural) A walk; passage.
15. (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
16. (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.
17. (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.
18. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
19. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
20. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
21. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
22. (intransitive) 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.
23. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
24. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
25. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
26. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
27. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
28. (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
29. (colloquial) A stepchild.
30. (US) Initialism of Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.
31. (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
32. Stepping (style of dance)
33. (intransitive, slang, AAVE) To depart.
34. (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.

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Examples of Using STEP in a Sentence

• Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.
• It emphasizes flowing movements rather than fixed stances; the ginga, a rocking step, is usually the focal point of the technique.
• While it did not find extensive use, it introduced many features that are used widely now, and is seen as a step in the development of object-oriented programming (OOP).
• It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany and was generally seen as the first step in the process of European integration following the end of the Second World War in Europe.
• He realized that the first step would have to be a clean formal language, and much of his subsequent work was directed toward that goal.
• Being passive, facilitated transport does not directly require chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis in the transport step itself; rather, molecules and ions move down their concentration gradient according to the principles of diffusion.
• The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter Formula One.
• The first step in character generation is to randomly determine via dice rolls the character's basic attributes of Ego, Strength, Dexterity and Vigor.
• In one measure, a galliard typically has five steps; in French such a basic step is called a cinq pas and in Italy, cinque passi.
• To construct a histogram, the first step is to "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values— divide the entire range of values into a series of intervals—and then count how many values fall into each interval.
• Unlike selection sort, heapsort does not waste time with a linear-time scan of the unsorted region; rather, heap sort maintains the unsorted region in a heap data structure to efficiently find the largest element in each step.
• They are an important procedural step in a trial by jury, and as such are a cornerstone of criminal process in many common law countries.
• The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta, a document considered an early step in the evolution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.
• The most basic eating rule in the Torah is that blood is not to be consumed; therefore, as a step to being kosher, mammals and birds must be slaughtered according to a process known as , in which a certified ritual slaughterer, called a shochet, severs the trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries, and jugular veins in a single, quick cut using an ultra-sharp instrument called a chalaf; doing so causes rapid and massive blood loss.
• Originally made of wood, bone, and stone (such as flint and obsidian), over the centuries, in step with improvements in both metallurgy and manufacturing, knife blades have been made from copper, bronze, iron, steel, ceramic, and titanium.
• Nightclub two step (NC2S, sometimes disco two step or California two step) is a partner dance initially developed by Buddy Schwimmer in the mid-1960s.
• The high viscosity inhibits diffusion of atoms through the lava, which inhibits the first step (nucleation) in the formation of mineral crystals.
• Radon will be present on Earth for several billion more years despite its short half-life, because it is constantly being produced as a step in the decay chains of U and Th, both of which are abundant radioactive nuclides with half-lives of at least several billion years.
• For elements with more than one significant digit, this bucketing process is repeated for each digit, while preserving the ordering of the prior step, until all digits have been considered.
• Then, based on the symbol and the machine's own present state, the machine writes a symbol into the same cell, and moves the head one step to the left or the right, or halts the computation.

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