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Cosa (chi) è step - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
STEP; Steps; StEP; Step (disambiguation); Step (album); Step (song)
step
¦ noun
1. an act or movement of putting one leg in front of the other in walking or running.
the distance covered by such a movement.
a short and easily walked distance.
2. one of the sequences of movement of the feet which make up a dance.
3. a flat surface, especially one in a series, on which to place one's foot when moving from one level to another.
a doorstep.
a rung of a ladder.
(steps or a pair of steps) Brit. a stepladder.
step aerobics.
Climbing a foothold cut in a slope of ice.
4. a measure or action, especially one of a series taken in order to deal with or achieve a particular thing.
5. a position or grade in a scale or hierarchy.
6. Music, N. Amer. an interval in a scale; a tone (whole step) or semitone (half step).
7. Physics an abrupt change in the value of a quantity, especially voltage.
8. a block fixed to a boat's keel in order to take the base of a mast or other fitting.
¦ verb (steps, stepping, stepped)
1. lift and set down one's foot or one foot after the other in order to walk somewhere or move to a new position.
2. Nautical set up (a mast) in its step.
Phrases
in (or out of) step
1. walking, marching, or dancing in the same (or a different) rhythm and pace as others.
2. conforming (or not conforming) to what others are doing or thinking.
3. Physics (of two or more oscillations or other cyclic phenomena) having (or not having) the same frequency and always in the same phase.
follow (or tread) in someone's steps do as someone else did, especially in making a journey or following a career.
mind (or watch) one's step walk or act carefully.
step into someone's shoes take control of a task or job from another person.
step on it informal go faster.
step out of line behave inappropriately or disobediently.
Phrasal verbs
step aside another way of saying step down.
step back mentally withdraw from a situation in order to consider it objectively.
step down withdraw or resign from a position or office.
step something down decrease voltage by using a transformer.
step forward offer one's help or services.
step in
1. become involved in a difficult situation, especially in order to help.
2. act as a substitute for someone.
step out
1. leave a room or building, typically for a short time.
2. N. Amer. informal have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone.
3. walk with long or vigorous steps.
step something up increase the amount, speed, or intensity of something.
?increase voltage using a transformer.
Derivatives
stepped adjective
stepwise adjective
Origin
OE st?pe, stepe (n.), st?ppan, steppan (v.), of Gmc origin.
Step
·vi Walk; passage.
II. Step ·vt To set, as the foot.
III. Step ·adj To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
IV. Step ·adj Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
V. Step ·vi A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
VI. Step ·vi A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
VII. Step ·vi The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
VIII. Step ·vi A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
IX. Step ·vi Proceeding; measure; action; an Act.
X. Step ·vi An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
XII. Step ·vi Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
XIII. Step ·vi A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
XIV. Step ·vi A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
XV. Step ·add. ·noun At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
XVI. Step ·vi 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.
XVII. Step ·adj To Walk; to go on foot; ·esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
XVIII. Step ·vi 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.
XIX. Step ·adj 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.
XX. Step ·vi 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.
XXI. Step ·vi 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.
step
I
n.
placing the foot
1) to make, take a step (to take a step backward)
2) to retrace one's steps
3) a giant (usu. fig.); mincing step
4) (usu. fig.) step by step
sequence of movements
(dancing)
5) to execute, perform a step
stride in marching
(mil.)
6) to keep in step
7) to change step
8) an even, steady step
9) half; route step
10) in step; out of step (also fig.: she was out of step with everyone else)
action
11) to take a step
12) a bold; careful, prudent; critical; dangerous; decisive; drastic; false; fatal; forward; giant; historic; positive; precautionary; preventive; rash, risky step (to take a giant step forward)
gait
13) a heavy step
distance
14) a step from (their place is just a few steps from the station)
II
v.
1) (d; intr.) to step between (the referee stepped between the two boxers)
2) (d; intr.) to step into (to step into a room)
3) (d; intr.) to step off (to step off a train)
4) (d; intr.) to step on (she stepped on my foot; to step on the brake)
5) (d; intr.) to step out of (to step out of the room)
6) (d; intr.) to step over (she stepped over the body)
Esempi dal corpus di testo per step
1. We have step by step raised our international prestige.
2. But each step forward is followed by a step back.
3. She stressed: "It is a potentially step–by–step process.
4. "Step over his mouth, step over it," another man says.
5. "An intelligent doctor would treat the disease step by step.