What's the difference between rung and step?

Rung


Definition:

  • () of Ring
  • (p. p.) of Ring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
  • (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
  • (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
  • (2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
  • (3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
  • (4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
  • (5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
  • (6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
  • (7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
  • (8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
  • (9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
  • (10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
  • (11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
  • (12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
  • (13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
  • (15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
  • (16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
  • (17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
  • (18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
  • (19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
  • (20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.

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.