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stepping stone

alt. 1 A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek. 2 (context idiomatic English) Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else. n. 1 A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek. 2 (context idiomatic English) Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else.

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stepping stone
  1. n. a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing

  2. any means of advancement; "the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches"

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Stepping stone

Stepping stones are stones placed in a river to allow pedestrians to cross. Stepping stone or stepping stones may also refer to:

Stepping Stone (album)

Stepping Stone is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Lari White. Released on July 28, 1998 as her first album for Lyric Street Records after leaving RCA Nashville. The album's title track was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in mid-1998; "Take Me" and "John Wayne Walking Away" were also released as singles.

The track "Only God Could Stop Me Loving You" was originally recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus on his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland. Canadian country music band Emerson Drive would later record the song for their 2002 debut album Emerson Drive and release it as a single. "You Can't Go Home Again (Flies on the Butter)" was later recorded as "Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)" by Wynonna and Naomi Judd on Wynonna's 2003 album What the World Needs Now Is Love, from which it was released as a single.

Stepping Stone (Jimi Hendrix song)

"Stepping Stone" is a song by Hendrix Band of Gypsys, which was originally released as a single in the United States backed with "Izabella" on April 8, 1970 – the last single released by Hendrix before his death. A second version is featured on his 1972 third posthumous studio album War Heroes. Written and produced by Hendrix, the song was recorded early in 1970 with the short-lived Band of Gypsys lineup of Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles.

Stepping Stone (Duffy song)

"Stepping Stone" is the fourth single by Welsh singer Duffy from her debut studio album, Rockferry. The single was officially released as both a digital download and CD single on 1 September 2008 in the United Kingdom. Although it followed the massive success of previous singles " Mercy" and " Warwick Avenue", it did not perform well in worldwide music charts. However, the single received widespread acclaim.

Stepping Stone (Lari White song)

"Stepping Stone" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Lari White. It was released in May 1998 as the first single and title track from the album Stepping Stone. The song reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was written by White, David Kent and Craig Wiseman.

Usage examples of "stepping stone".

The sudden shift caught her off guard, almost tumbling her off her safe perch on a broad stepping stone.

The young woman crossed the stream, hopping from stepping stone to stepping stone with perfect balance, and came grinning toward me up the grassy knoll.

Techniques that specialized in using a person's life force as a stepping stone to recovery.

Snow had fallen from the sides of their mountain and compacted to slippery ice under their feet Michael was very tired and glad to see the stepping stone.

He picked up his pace, barely feeling the pressure of his soles on the boards, the sense growing in him that however real this scene felt it was another of his mind's inventions, shaped from fragments of memory to ease him through what would otherwise have driven him mad: a stepping stone between the dreaming wakefulness of the life he'd left and whatever paradox lay ahead.