Estate vs Step - What's the difference?
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:when I came to man's estate
*(Bible), (w) xii. 16
*:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate .
(label) Status, rank.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
(label) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
(label) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
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*:And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world
*(Bible), (w) vi. 21
*:Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
*(w) (1775-1864)
*:She's a duchess, a great estate .
(label) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights ((Estates of the realm)).
*1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
*:I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.
*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p.202:
*:The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.
(label) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
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The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
(label) A housing estate.
(label) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoeverconcerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
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.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
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, title= To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
* Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. —
(figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
* They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. — (Alexander Pope)
To set, as the foot.
(nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step ; to erect.
* 1898 , (Joseph Conrad),
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
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The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
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*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
A small space or distance.
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A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
A gait; manner of walking.
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*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
*:Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step .
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:Beware of desperate steps . The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
*(George Washington Cable) (1844-1925)
*:I have lately taken steps to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
(lb) A walk; passage.
*(John Dryden)
*:Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
(lb) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(lb) 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.
(lb) 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.
(lb) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(lb) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
:Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala , a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
(lb) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
:(William Kingdon Clifford)
Estate is a related term of step.
As nouns the difference between estate and step
is that estate is while step is stitch.estate
English
(wikipedia estate)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagonDerived terms
* concurrent estate * council estate * estate agent * estate for life * estate in land * estate sale * estate tax * fourth estate * housing estate * industrial estate * leasehold estate * life estate * overspill estate * real estate * residuary estate * sink estate * third estate * trading estateSee also
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Verb
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.