(n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
(n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.06pm: In the Daily Politics debate, Davey followed in the footsteps of Clegg in trying to put distance between himself and the Conservatives and Labour – the "old parties", as Davey described him.
(2) Tellingly, though, the women's daughters have shown no interest in following in their footsteps.
(3) Goldsmith, following in the footsteps of his father , who started the rabid anti-EU referendum campaign, is for a hard Brexit, wrenching us away as brutally and damagingly as possible.
(4) About 30 people took three weeks to walk from South Tyneside to London in the footsteps of the Jarrow Crusade of 1936 which highlighted unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.
(5) Harold Tillman, owner of retailers Jaeger and Aquascutum (the name means "water shield") had ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Burberry, another classic but antiquated British label which had reinvented itself as a worldwide luxury brand.
(6) Will Spanish publishers follow in Germany’s footsteps and backtrack?
(7) It described the move by Robinson and Carroll as "a huge success for community relations in the United Kingdom" and urged others, both in the EDL and Islamist groups, to follow in the pair's footsteps and abandon extremist ideologies.
(8) He suggested that other European countries would follow in Britain’s footsteps and leave the EU.
(9) Perception of natural sounds of approaching and moving away footsteps was studied.
(10) With a computerized optical pedobarograph, three footsteps on each side were recorded under three conditions: 1) barefoot, 2) wearing the patients' own hosiery, and 3) wearing experimental patented padded hosiery.
(11) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
(12) He said they wanted to go to Malaysia to find jobs, following in the footsteps of others from his village.
(13) The frontier of space is just a follow-on – we're following on in the footsteps of those who preceded us, and hopefully we'll give those that follow-on in our footsteps the same opportunity that we had.
(14) I feel at home, everything feels at home, for my family too, they’re set up very well here.” The Nigeria international Moses followed closely in Song’s footsteps and will now spend a third year in succession away from Stamford Bridge on loan.
(15) Alex Salmond could not be trusted as he had this hidden agenda – Sturgeon follows in his footsteps.
(16) The idea that never having seen each other, Amanda would go into space, follow in her mother's footsteps... it was very moving to me."
(17) When asked if he wanted to follow in his predecessor Danny Cohen's footsteps and become BBC1 controller, Bennett responded: "No."
(18) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
(19) Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Schulberg began writing ironic short stories about Hollywood, and took part in the leftwing Western Writers' Congress in 1936.
(20) Get on with the program and follow our Venezuelan footsteps, because after all, we (almost) always win Miss Universe, thanks to the beauty standards established by our beloved Mr Sousa.
Step
Definition:
(a.) 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.
(a.) To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
(a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
(a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
(v. t.) To set, as the foot.
(v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
(v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
(v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
(v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
(v. i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
(v. i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
(v. i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
(v. i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
(v. i.) Walk; passage.
(v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(v. i.) In general, 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.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
(v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(2) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(3) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(4) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) To explore an early step, we synthesized 5 beta-cholest-7-ene-3 beta,6 alpha,14 alpha-triol in tritiated form.
(7) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(8) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(9) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(11) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
(12) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(13) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(14) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(15) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
(16) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(17) The second step occurs several hours later and consists of the transactivation of adenylate cyclase and pertussis toxin genes.
(18) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(19) The influence of exogenous mitogens (RFG, TGF beta 1 and insulin) and autocrine factor (at different step of purification) on the growth of Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) cells was estimated by both methods.
(20) An experience in working out and introduction of a system of failure-free performance work as one of the most important steps in creating a complex system for the production quality control at the Leningrad combine "Krasnogvardeets" is described.