How to pronounce“step”in English
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Definitions of “step”
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
“Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.”
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.
“The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.”
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 “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.”
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.
“He stepped into his pants.”
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