steps
/stɛps/ · noun
Meaning
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- 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.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- 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; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To set, as the foot.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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