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step off

vb. To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.

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Step off

Step off may refer to:

  • Step-off, a parameter in estimating the severity of injury of the posterior cruciate ligament
  • Step Off (album)
  • Step Off, 1984 Melle Mel song

Usage examples of "step off".

We could step off the cars and walk over to the seashore as easily as a man steps out of his door and walks to a neighboring town, but why should we?

Do you have to step off the path to encounter the very best and worst of life?

But you vill get a mild shock 'or two vhen you try to step off der edge of der island.

So you had to step off the road and dodge around the houses, clambering over piles of rubble, and passing by broken drains and clogged sewers that nobody ever got around to fixing, and trying to avoid the children and chickens and mice that ran everywhere.

They did not even step off the great eight-pointed star of tiny, glowing seashells but merely willed the Gate to move them again, to Logres.

Go to the airport and spend the day shadowing the first passenger he saw step off a plane for the duration of the day.

Women are like streetcars, when you step off one, there's another one coming along directly.

He knew that the chute was safe, that, even if the power should fail, safety nets would snap across at each floor level - but he could not force himself to step off the edge.

Even in the depths of that despair, I did not step off the path of reason, did not turn to God for help or condemn God for torturing an innocent child.

A person who decided, when about to step off the brink of a cliff, that it was all a dream and didn't matter would be in trouble if wrong.

But if right, he could step off the cliff and force the dream to end.

The terminus Gate is smaller, but the area around it is safe so anyone can step off.

Three security officers in full environment kit and gleaming armored suits trotted out onto the ramp, careful not to step off into the shining goo.

He'd go floundering if he chanced to step off the solid base of the landing pad.

The day after a storm like that the air steamed, the land gurgled and dripped, and every step off bare rock was a boggy squish.