step
Signification (English)
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- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- 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 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.
- The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- A walk; passage.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- 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.
- 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.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (slang) Kick scooter.
- Stepping (style of dance)
Concepts
faire un pas
etape
intervalle musical
compteur pour les pas
partir
Synonyms
take a step
tread on
stamp on
take/make a step
make a step
stone’s throw
short distance
tread down
foot-print
jump over
put on top
side-step
sudden change
some years ago
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
flight of stairs
rundle
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/stɛp/
Étymologie (English)
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.
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