资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stepping}.] [AS. st[ae]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.
   stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe
   a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.
   ? to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. {Stamp}, n.
   & a.]
   1. 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.

   2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;
      as, to step to one of the neighbors.

   3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

            Home the swain retreats, His flock before him
            stepping to the fold.                 --Thomson.

   4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

            They are stepping almost three thousand years back
            into the remotest antiquity.          --Pope.

   {To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to
      retire from company.

   {To step forth}, to move or come forth.

   {To step} {in or into}.
      (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to
          advance suddenly in.

                Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the
                water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever
                disease he had.                   --John v. 4.
      (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the
          house.
      (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon
          easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.

   {To step out}.
      (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,
          of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.
      (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.

   {To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of
      the step according to the established rules.