step

name

1. Initialism of Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.
2. Acronym of Sixth Term Examination Paper.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of stepchild and stepsibling.

1. A stepchild.

   “[Krazy Kat, after complimenting a woman on her nice polite little child:] Boy or girl? [Woman:] Step – but well brung up.”

2. A stepsibling.

   “So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.”

verb

Etymology: 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.

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.

   “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.

   “Come one, come all. Step right up!”

   “to step to one of the neighbors”

3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

   “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.”

   “She clapped, but instead of walking her back to the table, Alex took her hand and pulled her gently towards him, slipping his arm around her waist again and stepping her off on the first beat of the next dance.”

5. To move mentally; to go in imagination.

   “They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.”

6. To set, as the foot.

   “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.

   “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.
9. To depart.

   “You best step, cuz things are about to jump off.”

10. To be confrontational.

    “You tryna be steppin right now? You better bring it if so.”