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What is "step-by-step"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
step-by-step
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
step-by-step guide
▪ Follow our step-by-step guide.
step-by-step instructions (=giving details of each thing you should do in order)
▪ This book gives step-by-step instructions for making curtains.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
▪ They have realised the effectiveness of the step-by-step approach, the moderate image and the long-term plan.
▪ The step-by-step approach was adopted and the high degree of success achieved can be largely attributed to this strategy.
▪ In Britain there is a preference for a tactical step-by-step approach against a background of traditional consensus.
guide
▪ Mike Palmer gives you a step-by-step guide to making a fast start in 1991.
▪ Just follow our simple step-by-step guide now and unleash the stellar power of your mobile phone.
▪ Routines detailed in this step-by-step guide can be used with Windows 3.0 or 3.1.
instruction
▪ You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions.
▪ There are step-by-step instructions and warnings about what not to do.
▪ The second assumption is that females require step-by-step instruction and continuing education in the arts and crafts of femininity.
▪ With simple-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, Delia holds your hand through every stage of the ordeal.
▪ This handy book has step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here, we show step-by-step how you could fit the new Leisure sink.
▪ Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
▪ Mike Palmer gives you a step-by-step guide to making a fast start in 1991.
▪ Pupils need clear step-by-step explanations in order to avoid confusion.
▪ The step-by-step approach was adopted and the high degree of success achieved can be largely attributed to this strategy.
▪ You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions.
Wiktionary
step-by-step

a. In detail, describing each step precisely and in order.

WordNet
step-by-step

adj. one thing at a time [syn: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, stepwise]

Usage examples of "step-by-step".

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE THROUGH YOUR HIDDEN FILES This next section is for those of you who are more interested in learning the ins and outs of your computer.

The wire ambush had been a resounding success, but they'd been able to watch how the Maggots, dipping their long feelers to the broken ground, had been able to track them, step-by-step.

Center had filled his mind's eye with images of what the trebuchet could accomplish, and precise step-by-step instructions in making it.

Sara taught him the business step-by-step, from pick-ups and deliveries to actual sales.

This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take.

It would be a step-by-step operation, the elements of our synthetic language defining themselves as they were transmitted and, we trust, deciphered.