step | Lernwerd

Forms

1.An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
2.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.
- Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
3.The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
4.The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.

1.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.
2.To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- Come one, come all. Step right up!
- Well.. It's hard to talk about in front of the children. Can we step outside?
- Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended.
3.To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
4.To dance.
- He stepped to the beat of one of their favorite songs.
- At arms length with left hands clasped they moved back where facing each other they stepped in time to their dance embrace.
- He put on a tame version of the 1960s song “The Letter,” wrapped his right arm around my waist, raised my right hand, draped it over his left, and we stepped, stepped, and back stepped to the beat.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *stapjaną

Proto-West Germanic *stappjan

Old English stæppan

Middle English steppen

English step