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- English Word Step Definition To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
- English Word Step Definition To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- English Word Step Definition Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- English Word Step Definition To set, as the foot.
- English Word Step Definition To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- English Word Step Definition An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
- English Word Step Definition 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.
- English Word Step Definition 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.
- English Word Step Definition A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
- English Word Step Definition A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- English Word Step Definition Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
- English Word Step Definition Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
- English Word Step Definition Walk; passage.
- English Word Step Definition A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- English Word Step Definition 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.
- English Word Step Definition 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.
- English Word Step Definition A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- English Word Step Definition The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
- English Word Step Definition A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- English Word Step- Definition A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.
- English Word Stepbrother Definition A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.
- English Word Stepchild Definition A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
- English Word Stepchild Definition A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
- English Word Stepdame Definition A stepmother.
- English Word Stepdaughter Definition A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
- English Word Stepfather Definition The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
- English Word Stephanion Definition The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.
- English Word Stephanite Definition A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.
- English Word Stephanotis Definition A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.
- English Word Stephanotis Definition A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.