step

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɛp/    美 /stɛp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
    — Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  2. A stepchild. colloquial
    — [Krazy Kat, after complimenting a woman on her nice polite little child:] Boy or girl? [Woman:] Step – but well brung up.
  3. 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 breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
  4. A stepsibling. colloquial
    — So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.
  5. 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.
  6. The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
  7. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
    — He improved step by step, or by steps.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. A small space or distance.
    — It is but a step.
  11. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  12. A gait; manner of walking.
    — The approach of a man is often known by his step.
  13. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
    — The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
  14. A walk; passage. in-plural
    — Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
  15. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. in-plural
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  19. 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.
  20. A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
    — A change of position effected by a motion of translation will be called a step.
  21. A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
    — Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
  22. Kick scooter. Netherlands,slang
  23. Stepping (style of dance)
动词 v.
  1. 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
    — 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.
  2. To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. intransitive
    — Come one, come all. Step right up!
  3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. intransitive
    — Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
  4. To dance.
    — At arms length with left hands clasped they moved back where facing each other they stepped in time to their dance embrace.
  5. To move mentally; to go in imagination. figuratively,intransitive
    — They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
  6. To set, as the foot. transitive
    — One of the women, Elsie, stepped her foot inside to help the woman.
  7. To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. transitive
    — We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.
  8. To advance a process gradually, one step at a time. transitive
  9. To depart. intransitive,slang
    — You best step, cuz things are about to jump off.
  10. To be confrontational. intransitive,slang
    — You tryna be steppin right now? You better bring it if so.

词形变化

steps plural steps present,singular,third-person stepping participle,present stepped participle,past stepped past stept dated,participle,past stept dated,past stope obsolete,participle,past stope obsolete,past steps plural

词汇关系

下位词
back step half step etc. see under back half cyclic step
衍生词
13th step a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step baby step between-step body step bootstep catch step catstep clownstep coaster step corbie-step corbie step counterstep crowstep dance step doorstep eigenstep Eureka step false step fire step fish steps forestep goose step half-step hardstep high-step hoofstep instep in step interstep Irish step dancing kick-step lockstep macrostep mast step metastep microstep midstep multistep naughty step oblique step one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind one-step one step ahead one step at a time out of step pawstep Penrose steps pep in one's step Pinoy step rest step retrace one's steps route step single-step smoothstep spring in one's step stair-step stairstep step aerobics stepback step by step step-by-step stepchair step change step chart step climb step-climb stepdancer step deal step flashing step foot Stepford step-free step function step grate step ladder steplength stepless steplike steply step machine stepmeal step motor steppage stepper step pyramid stepquote step rocket step show stepside stepsize stepstone stepstool step stool step street step time step up one's game stepway stepwell stepwise stepwork substep superstep take a step back take steps Tecumseh step test Tennessee quick step the first step is always the hardest three-step snake timestep time step tread in someone's steps T-step twelve-step program two-step two steps ahead umbrella step watch one's step waterstep whole step with extra steps backstep cross-step downstep Eurostep goose-step misstep quickstep sidestep understep upstep bestep outstep overstep restep roll step smell what someone is stepping in step and repeat step aside step back step between step dance step down step forth step forward step in step-in step in it step into step into someone's shoes step into the breach step it step lively step-off step off step on step on a duck step on a frog step on a rake step on it step on someone's lines step on someone's toes step on the gas step on the laughs step out step out of line step out on someone stepover step over steppable stepping feet illusion stepping stone step short step-through step-thru step to step up step up on step up to the plate unstep you can't step in the same river twice
相关词
step-

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *stapjaną
Proto-West Germanic *stappjan
Old English stæppan
Middle English steppen
English step
From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.
词源 2
Clipping of stepchild and stepsibling.
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