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▸ 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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