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step (STEP) (noun)
1. Movement achieved by lifting one foot and replacing it slightly ahead of its original position and this is repeated with the other foot and done in a continuous process so the user can make progress: "During his rehabilitation session, he was able to move one step at a time across the room."
2. The height or elevation of one stair: "The first step on the staircase was wide but it was very shallow."
3. A short or abbreviated distance: "It is just a step or two from my house to the corner store."
4. A process that occurs as one of a series of actions: "We took the first step in planning our vacation by calling the travel agent to get things ready."
2. The height or elevation of one stair: "The first step on the staircase was wide but it was very shallow."
3. A short or abbreviated distance: "It is just a step or two from my house to the corner store."
4. A process that occurs as one of a series of actions: "We took the first step in planning our vacation by calling the travel agent to get things ready."
step (STEP) (verb)
To press down on something using one's foot: "When he approached the corner, the driver had to step on the brake to slow the bus down."
steppe (STEP) (noun)
A vast semiarid grass-covered plain, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America: "The buffalo graze on the steppe in Alberta, Canada, where they live on a protected reservation."
You have to watch your step when you walk across the steppe because you could step into a "cow pie" of cattle waste.
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(Latin: walk, step, take steps, move around; walking or stepping)
(Latin: step, stepping)
(Greek > Latin: stepping, to step, to go, to walk; a place where someone steps; a pedestal; a foot for stepping; foundation, ground, base)
(Greek: a step or degree; rank; by steps)
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step on it, step on it
step on it (STEP awn it) (verb)
To hurry up, or to go faster, in order to get something done quickly: "Come on, step on it so we can get this project finished tonight."
"Step on it or we are going to be late."
step on it (STEP awn it) (verb)
To put or to set the foot down on something: "A mother saw a big bug crawling on the floor and she told her son to step on it before it went under the sofa."
A man ordered a hamburger in the fast-food restaurant and told the waiter to please step on it!
A foreigner over hearing this wondered why the man would want to buy something to eat and tell someone to step on it.
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(the hundred-degree temperature interval gave us the name scale of centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step")
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goose step
An accentuated lift of the forelimbs.
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