Definition of steps

"steps" in the noun sense

1. measure, step

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

"the situation called for strong measures"

"the police took steps to reduce crime"

2. footstep, pace, step, stride

the distance covered by a step

"I followed in his steps"

"he retraced his steps"

"his steps turned toward home"

"he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

3. step

the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down

"he walked with unsteady steps"

4. step, stair

support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway

"he paused on the bottom step"

5. gradation, step

relative position in a graded series

"always a step behind"

"subtle gradations in color"

"keep in step with the fashions"

6. step, stone's throw

a short distance

"it's only a step to the drugstore"

7. footfall, footstep, step

the sound of a step of someone walking

"he heard footsteps on the porch"

8. tone, whole tone, step, whole step

a musical interval of two semitones

9. footprint, footmark, step

a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

"the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"

10. step

a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

11. dance step, step

a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance

"he taught them the waltz step"

"steps" in the verb sense

1. step

shift or move by taking a step

"step back"

2. step, tread

put down or press the foot, place the foot

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

"step on the brake"

3. step

cause (a computer) to execute a single command

4. mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat

treat badly

"This boss abuses his workers"

"She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

5. step

furnish with steps

"The architect wants to step the terrace"

6. step

move with one's feet in a specific manner

"step lively"

7. step

walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner

"step over to the blackboard"

8. step

place (a ship's mast) in its step

9. pace, step

measure (distances) by pacing

"step off ten yards"

10. step

move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation

"She stepped into a life of luxury"

"he won't step into his father's footsteps"

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Quotations for steps

With unequal steps. [ Virgil ]

By steps we may ascend to God. [ Milton ]

By different steps but the same way.

The harebells nod as she passes by,
The violet lifts its tender eye.
The ferns bend her steps to greet.
And the mosses creep to her dancing feet; [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Over The Wall ]

Steps with a tender foot, light as on air.
The lovely, lordly creature floated on. [ Tennyson ]

Who track the steps of glory to the grave. [ Byron ]

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away. [ Cowper ]

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. [ Smollett ]

His steps are beauty, and His presence light. [ Montgomery ]

Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime,
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. [ Milton ]

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love. [ Milton ]

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. [ Macaulay ]

By a leap; by passing over the intermediate steps.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. [ Balzac ]

Blind fortune treads on the steps of inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. [ Stanislaus ]

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. [ Lowell ]

Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. [ Lilly ]

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of steps. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. [ Whittier ]

Diligence, frugality, and perseverance, are the leading steps to wealth. [ Downey ]

Actions, looks, words, steps from the alphabet by which you may spell characters. [ Lavater ]

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell Character. [ J. C. Lavater ]

Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection. [ Richter ]

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. [ Lavater ]

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. [ Pope ]

Reason is as it were a light to lighten our steps and guide us through the journey of life. [ Cicero ]

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. [ Colton ]

A halo of glory surrounds all true, pure mothers, showing their worthiness to sit upon the steps of the heavenly throne. [ Mrs. E. B. Duffey ]

In the destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven. [ Dickens ]

Out of a horrible depth the height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the birth (medium) of the higher natures. [ Tiedge ]

God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. [ Sydney Smith ]

When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]

Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]

Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

steps in Scrabble®

The word steps is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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steps in Words With Friends™

The word steps is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence steps

Words that start with steps (7 words)

Words with steps in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving steps

Shorter words in steps

step

Longer words containing steps

countersteps

crowsteps

doorsteps

footsteps

goosesteps

insteps

locksteps

missteps

multisteps

outsteps

oversteps

quicksteps

resteps

sidesteps

stairsteps

stepsister stepsisters

stepson stepsons

stepstool stepstools

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