WordDictionary

Noun:

• A gait; manner of walking.
• An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• 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 running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• A small space or distance.
• kinematics A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford
• machines A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• 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
• music The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• 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.
• ''(plural):'' A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• (plural) A walk; passage.
• Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.

Verb:

• figuratively To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• 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 slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• intransitive To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance.
• transitive nautical To fix the foot of (a mast) in its '''step'''; to erect.
• transitive To set, as the foot.