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