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)

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}

The degree of importance given to something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.

* M'Culloch

An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .

* Dryden

His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

(music) The relative duration of a musical note.

(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.

* Joe Hing Lowe

I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.

Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.

Precise meaning; import.

the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument

(Mitford)

(obsolete) Esteem; regard.

(Dryden)

* Bishop Burnet

My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew

(Spenser)