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📖 Определения и значения для слова step

📒 one of a series of things that you do in order to achieve something

  • We are taking steps to prevent pollution.
  • It's a big step giving up your job and moving halfway across the world.
  • a necessary/an important/a positive step

📒 one of a series of things that somebody does or that happen, which forms part of a process

  • Having completed the first stage, you can move on to step 2.
  • If you follow all the steps, nothing will go wrong.
  • I'd like to take this idea a step further.

📒 the act of lifting your foot and putting it down in order to walk or move somewhere; the sound this makes

  • a baby’s first steps
  • He took a step towards the door.
  • We heard steps outside.

📒 the distance that you cover when you take a step

  • It's only a few steps further.
  • He turned around and retraced his steps (= went back the way he had come).
  • She moved a step closer to me.

📒 a surface that you put your foot on in order to walk to a higher or lower level, especially one of a series

  • She was sitting on the bottom step of the staircase.
  • We walked down some stone steps to the beach.
  • A short flight of steps led up to the door.

📒 a series of movements that you make with your feet and which form a dance

  • Do you know the steps of this dance?
  • He executed some dance steps for the judges.
  • He executed some jive steps on the pavement.

📒 the way that somebody walks

  • He walked with a quick light step.
  • There was a smile on her face and a spring in her step.
  • I had a spring in my step when I walked into that office for the last time.

📒 a type of exercise that you do by stepping on and off a raised piece of equipment

  • step aerobics
  • a step class

📒 a stepladder

  • a pair of steps
  • We need the steps to get into the attic.

📒 the interval between two notes that are next to each other in a scale

📒 to change the way you are walking so that you do not walk in the same rhythm as the people you are walking or marching with

  • The soldiers turned without once breaking step.

📒 to change the way you are walking so that you start walking in the same rhythm as the person you are walking with

  • He caught her up and fell into step beside her.

📒 putting your feet on the ground in the right/wrong way, according to the rhythm of the music or the people you are moving with

  • He was out of step with the music.
  • She had trouble keeping in step with the others.

📒 having ideas that are the same as or different from other people’s

  • She was out of step with her colleagues.

📒 to walk carefully

📒 to behave in a careful and sensible way

  • You’d better watch your step with him if you don’t want trouble.

📒 used to say that every time you make progress, something bad happens that means that the situation is worse than before

📒 when you are one step ahead of somebody/something, you manage to avoid them or to achieve something more quickly than they do

  • She's always one step ahead of the competition.

📒 when you do something one step at a time you do it slowly and gradually

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