step
What is the Definition of step?
Noun:
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- a short distance
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
Verb:
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer)
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast)
- measure (distances)
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
How can I use step in a sentence?
All the same, he would have gambled twelve Sorcerer's Stones that Snape had just left the room, and from what Harry had just heard, Snape would be walking with a new spring in his step — Quirrell seemed to have given in at last.
There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump.
Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all.
A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him.
B-b-but Severus, I — You do not want me as your enemy, Quirrell, said Snape, taking a step toward him.
Other meanings of step (synonyms, cognates).
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| stepladder |
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| stepmother |
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| steppe |
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| stepped |
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| stepper |
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| steppes |
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| stepping |
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| stepping register |
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| steppingstone |
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