step

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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.
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.
5. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
6. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
7. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
8. A small space or distance.
9. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
10. A gait; manner of walking.
11. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
12. (in-plural) A walk; passage.
13. (in-plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
14. A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
15. 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.
16. A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
17. The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
18. A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
19. A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
20. (Netherlands, slang) Kick scooter.
21. Stepping (style of dance)

Verb

1. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
3. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
4. To dance.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
6. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
7. (transitive) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
8. (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
9. (intransitive, slang) To depart.
10. (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.

Sinònims

pace

tread

stride

stair

walk

🚶

footstep

stage

measure

gait

move

rung

phase

take a step

action

go

level

footprint

👣

grade

gradation

order

step on

advance

footfall

degree

procedure

tread on

foot

🦶

stairs

stamp

walking

🚶

proceed

travel

sequence

rank

tone

steps

trample

act

footmark

deed

dance

💃

movement

stamp on

staple

take/make a step

enter

stile

alight

straddle

overstep

ill-treat

ill-use

pas

come

pedal

terrace

footboard

period

pitch

point

transfer

transgress

position

treadle

process

layer

deplane

remove

descend

route

run

whole tone

maltreat

sashay

march

dance step

make a step

break

detrain

stone’s throw

mistreat

whole step

short distance

abuse

span

distance

stand back

stepping

stepping-stone

stitches

stoop

storey

strategy

strut

surge

switch

take

tap

task

technique

tempo

thread

🧵

threshold

tier

tour

traffic

trajectory

tramp

transition

travels

tread down

treat

treatment

trekking

tribune

trip

velocity

vestige

voyage

voyages

voyagings

wade through

walkabout

walk through

wayfaring

work

zone

apostatise

foot-print

jump over

move on

put on top

side-step

sudden change

some years ago

communication

travelling

step over something

measure by footsteps

data track

tramp down

stair step

cut steps

flash-up

move a step

hand span

step flyer

pro jump

adjourn

ambulation

apostatize

board

cadence

carriage

cascade

change over

characteristic

class

clatter

course

cover

crawl

cut

dent

descended

drive

errand

exercise

expedient

exponent

fix

flight of stairs

footing

footpace

go away

grad

gradate

guide

guide book

heave

hide

hiking

immigrate

interval

journey

journeyings

jump

ladder

🪜

leap

ledge

legwork

line

make

make off

marching orders

meter

metre

move over

multiplicity

musical interval

notch

occupy

office

🏢

once

operation

overture

parade

pass

path

🛣️

pause

perambulation

peregrination

platform

progress

pursue

rate

representation

resort

ride

rostrum

rundle

sabbatical year

saunter

schedule

serve

service

shelf

sole

spacing

speed

staircase

stair-step

stairway

Traduccions

pas

Schritt

paso

Stufe

marche

étape

treten

escalón

schreiten

marcher

🚶

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stɛp/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: steppen

Heretat de anglès antic: steppan

Cognat amb frisó occidental: stappe

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: stape

Cognat amb neerlandès: stappen

Cognat amb való: steper

Cognat amb alemany: stapfen

Cognat amb polonès: stąpać

Cognat amb rus: ступать

Cognat amb polonès: stopień

Cognat amb rus: степень

In summary

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.