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# step

«step» in Mova's school dictionary: **one movement of your foot when you walk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (step, steps, stepped, stepping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A step is one movement of your foot when you walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#m1)

2) Steps are the flat parts of stairs that you walk up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#m2)

3) A step is one part of a process: the first step of a recipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#m3)

4) To step is to move by lifting your foot and putting it down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#m4)

5) «Step by step» means slowly, one part after another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted (steps walked, steps on a staircase); «steps a day» is a rate; in problem solving «step» means one part of the working. Everyday: watch your step, step on it (hurry), a stepladder. Family: stepmother, stepfather, stepbrother (family by a new marriage).

### examples

- Mia walks 2000 steps a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x1)
- The tower has 120 steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x2)
- He climbed 15 steps and then 20 more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x3)
- Each step is 2 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x4)
- Solve the problem step by step. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x5)
- Watch your step, the floor is wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x6)
- The baby took her first steps today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x7)
- Step aside to let the people pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x8)
- He sat lifeless on the steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/#x9)

### note

Doubles the p: stepped, stepping. Steps are usually the thing counted; «steps a day» is a rate. In problem solving «step» can mean one part of the working, not a number. Trap: «step» (foot) is not «steep» (sloping sharply).

### In the corpora

- [Buying, selling or renting a home has many steps, and things can take months or fall through.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/1/)
- [Many children call a step-parent by their first name, and it is fine to ask what to call them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/12/)
- [The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/13/)
- [Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big steps much less scary later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/5/)
- [A woman who is never seen outside may use a wheelchair on a path with steps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «step» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/step/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.