step

1. step (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.

Example: 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. step (noun) — sense 2

Definition: 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.

Example: The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.

3. step (noun) — sense 3

Definition: 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.

4. step (verb) — sense 4

Definition: 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.

Example: 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.

5. step (verb) — sense 5

Definition: 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.: To don with a stepping action.

Example: He stepped into his pants.

6. step (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To walk; to go (on foot, especially) a little distance.

Example: Come one, come all. Step right up!