The Collaborative International Dictionary
Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stepped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stepping.] [AS. st[ae]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D. stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr. ? to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. Stamp, n. & a.]
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.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
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To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
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Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. --Pope. To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company. To step forth, to move or come forth. To step in or To step into.
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To walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in.
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
--John v. 4. To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the house.
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To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate. To step out.
(Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.
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To go out for a short distance or a short time.
To step short (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules.
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Usage examples of "to step out".
Any minute she expected one of the Couteaus or the other cuckoos to step out into the hall, gun in hand.
But he advised me that the only way to grow and succeed was to step out of my comfort zone.
He had only to step out of the shoes, to shed the socks with two backward kicks, and shuffle off the trousers from his lean hind-legs and belly.
I decided to step out of my limousine and just stand there in the middle of this chaos.
And until we gain the capacity to step out of our own autobiography—.
I expected don Juan to step out from behind the boulder right away and sit down again but he did not.
That one certainly needed no prodding to step out into the face of danger.
As Hunza started to step out of the room, he looked up at the screens, and there stood Byrne.
Against the Mizlaplanian shuttle, she was not really in Kalia's field of vision when the shooting started, and Kalia had to step out in order to cover the full corridor.