Usually means: Movement of foot for walking.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. step, step-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. step, step-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. step, step-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. step, step-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. step: Vocabulary.com
  6. Step, step, step-: Wordnik
  7. step, step-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. STEP, step, step-: Wiktionary
  9. step, step-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. step, step-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. step: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. STEP, step-: Dictionary.com
  13. step-, step (n.), step (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. step: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. STEP (satellite), STEP, Step (ClariS song), Step (Kara album), Step (Meg album), Step (Vampire Weekend song), Step (air base), Step (film), Step (footing), Step (software), Step (song), Step (unit), Step: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Step-, Step: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. step, step-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. step: Rhymezone
  19. Step-, step: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. step: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. step, step-: MyWord.info
  22. STEP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. step, step-: Free Dictionary
  24. step: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Step (-brother, etc.): The Word Detective
  26. step, step-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Step-: World Wide Words
  28. step: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Step: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. step: Legal dictionary
  2. step: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STEP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Step (foothold), step: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. step: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. step: Genealogy Glossary
  2. STEP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. step: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Step: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. STEP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. step, step, step: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. step: The Folk File
  3. S.T.E.P: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Step: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Step: Latitude Mexico
  5. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See steping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
noun:  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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
noun:  A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
noun:  A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
noun:  The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
noun:  A small space or distance.
noun:  A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
noun:  A gait; manner of walking.
noun:  Proceeding; measure; action; act.
noun:  (in the plural) A walk; passage.
noun:  (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
noun:  (nautical) 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.
noun:  (machines) 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.
noun:  (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
noun:  (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
noun:  (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
noun:  (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
noun:  (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
noun:  Stepping (style of dance)
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
verb:  To dance.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
verb:  (transitive) To set, as the foot.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
verb:  (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
noun:  (colloquial) A stepchild.
noun:  (colloquial) A stepsibling.
noun:  (US) Initialism of Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.

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