(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.
Tread
Definition:
(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
(v. t.) To step or walk on.
(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
(n.) Way; track; path.
(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
(2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
(3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
(9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
(10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
(11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
(13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
(14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
(15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
(17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
(18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
(19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.