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In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him.

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Quick take

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of step gathered in one view.

noun

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

noun

the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

noun

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for step.

noun

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

noun

the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

noun

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"

noun

support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the bottom step"

noun

relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"

noun

a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"

noun

the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch"

noun

a musical interval of two semitones

noun

a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"

noun

a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

noun

a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; "he taught them the waltz step"

verb

shift or move by taking a step; "step back"

verb

put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"

verb

cause (a computer) to execute a single command

verb

treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

See also: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat

verb

furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace"

verb

move with one's feet in a specific manner; "step lively"

verb

walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner; "step over to the blackboard"

verb

place (a ship's mast) in its step

verb

measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"

verb

move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation; "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"

Example sentences

In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him.

A good first step would be to go after the psychopaths who run campaigns like these.

Someone with management skill should have step in and tell the founder "stop letting your wife to come in!

Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction.

If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection.

Releasing the specifications for Google Hangouts would be a good first step.

Programming is breaking a problem set down, thinking step by step through it, thinking of edge cases, and making it work.

He rarely is the first to step out, but is a lot better at capturing mood and opinion and then amplifying it.

Therefore the service should have to prove the results are accurate before advertising it as a first step in prevention.

"- "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

There are lots of problems, and if someone who really understood what large-program developers really care about were to step in and develop a new system on Linux, it could be really appealing.

And, if someone already has vast power over you, it is but a small step to extend that power in a technological age by using technology to spy upon, intimidate, and control people.

> and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be.\n> It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player.

It is easy to disparage the Encyclopedia Britannica from a modern perspective - out-of-step, overpriced, outmaneuvered by competitors - but there is a great sadness here at the demise of something that represented an effort by western scholars to "capture the world's knowledge.

Rather than just allow you to pass login tokens to Flexible Payments, however, they have decided to provide a completely incompatible API with a new set of endpoints, a completely incompatible accounting system, and even completely new terminology to describe the same set of steps.