step

Signification (Anglais)

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. A walk; passage.
13. 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. (slang) Kick scooter.
21. Stepping (style of dance)

Verb

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

Concepts

pas

marche

étape

marcher

mesure

démarche

faire un pas

échelon

mesurer

etape

phase

degré

escalier

aller

seuil

faire les cent pas

disposition

faire

enjambée

gradin

déplacement

voyager

promener

intervalle musical

ton

compteur pour les pas

allure

traverser

un

beau-

podium

abus

abuser

accroître

maltraiter

multiplier

redoubler

tripoter

baïonnette

empreinte

avancée

progrès

à deux pas

action

danser

zoner

mouvement

foulée

voyage

voyageant

voyagent

voyageons

voyages

voyagez

itinéraire

trajectoire

aboutir

claquer

décéder

parcourir

partir

remuer

succomber

cheminer

faire un tour

avancer

continuer

dépasser

poursuivre

procéder

piétiner

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɛp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.