Step

Portuguese Meaning

English Meaning

1. The single complete movement of raising one foot and putting it down in another spot, as in walking.
2. A manner of walking; a particular gait.
3. A fixed rhythm or pace, as in marching: keep step.
4. The sound of a footstep.
5. A footprint: steps in the mud.
6. The distance traversed by moving one foot ahead of the other.
7. A very short distance: just a step away.
8. Course; path: turned her steps toward home.
9. One of a series of rhythmical, patterned movements of the feet used in a dance: diagrammed the basic steps to the mambo.
10. A rest for the foot in ascending or descending.
11. Stairs.
12. Something, such as a ledge or an offset, that resembles a step of a stairway.
13. One of a series of actions, processes, or measures taken to achieve a goal.
14. A stage in a process: followed every step in the instructions.
15. A degree in progress or a grade or rank in a scale: a step up in the corporate hierarchy.
16. Music The interval that separates two successive tones of a scale.
17. Music A degree of a scale.
18. Nautical The block in which the heel of a mast is fixed.
19. To put or press the foot: step on the brake.
20. To shift or move slightly by taking a step or two: step back.
21. To walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified direction: step over to the corner.
22. To move with the feet in a particular manner: step lively.
23. To move into a new situation by or as if by taking a single step: stepping into a life of ease.
24. To treat someone with arrogant indifference: He is always stepping on other people.
25. To put or set (the foot) down: step foot on land.
26. To measure by pacing: step off ten yards.
27. To furnish with steps; make steps in: terraces that are stepped along the hillside.
28. Computer Science To cause (a computer) to execute a single instruction.
29. Nautical To place (a mast) in its step.
30. step aside To resign from a post, especially when being replaced.
31. step down To resign from a high post.
32. step down To reduce, especially in stages: stepping down the electric power.
33. step in To enter into an activity or a situation.
34. step in To intervene.
35. step out To walk briskly.
36. step out To go outside for a short time.
37. step out Informal To go out for a special evening of entertainment.
38. step out To withdraw; quit.
39. step up To increase, especially in stages: step up production.
40. step up To come forward: step up and be counted.
41. step up To improve one's performance or take on more responsibility, especially at a crucial time.
42. in step Moving in rhythm.
43. in step In conformity with one's environment: in step with the times.
44. out of step Not moving in rhythm: recruits marching out of step.
45. out of step Not in conformity with one's environment: out of step with the times.
46. step by step By degrees.
47. step on it Informal To go faster; hurry.