Noun

(en noun)

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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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)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

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#A distinct element.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

# A factor.

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

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#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

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*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.