step
EN[stɛp] [-ɛp]US
Fétape WSTEP
- STEP est un sigle pouvant désigner :
- Step, activité de fitness
- le standard pour l'échange de données de produit (norme ISO 10303)
- Station de Transfert d'Énergie par Pompage. L'eau d'un barrage est utilisée (en période de forte consommation) puis stockée dans une retenue avale avant d'être remontée par pompage dans la première retenue en période creuse.
- STEP désigne un réseau et le label de commerce équitable qu'il attribue aux entreprises qui s'engagent à respecter certains critères de commercialisation de tapis.
- NomPLstepsPREstep-
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- He improved step by step, or by steps.
- The first step is to find a job.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
- A small space or distance.
- It is but a step.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- The approach of a man is often known by his step.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (plural) A walk; passage.
- (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- VerbeSGstepsPRsteppingPTsteppedPTsteptPTstopePPsteppedPPsteptPPstopen
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- A “moving platform” scheme [ …] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) 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.
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- I didn't think I'd be stepping on my sister's toes when I told my nephew to sit up straight at the dinner table.
- The first step in freezing out competitors is to create a superior product.
- Perhaps we should step back for a second and think about solving this problem a different way.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of step in English Dictionary
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- en stepmother
- en stepfather
Source: Wiktionnaire