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How to pronounce step
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What does step mean?
nounAn 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 breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.”
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.
verbTo 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.
To don with a stepping action.
“He stepped into his pants.”
To walk; to go (on foot, especially) a little distance.
“to step to one of the neighbors”
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