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