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.

The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.

A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

A small space or distance.

A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

A gait; manner of walking.

Proceeding; measure; action; act.

(in the plural) A walk; passage.

(in the 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; specifically, 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.

(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

(colloquial) A stepchild.

(slang) A stepsibling.

(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.

(intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

To dance.

(intransitive, figurative) 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.

(transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.