Footstep

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A step with the foot.
  • noun. The sound of a foot stepping.
  • noun. The distance covered by a step.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A step on which to go up or down.
  • idiom. (follow in (someone's) footsteps) To carry on the behavior, work, or tradition of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A tread of the foot; a footfall; a stepping: as, I hear his footstep on the stair.
  • noun. The mark or impression of a foot; a footprint; a track.
  • noun. Hence plural The steps taken or methods pursued in any series of actions; a course of proceedings or measures, or the track or path marked out by such a course: as, the conqueror's footsteps were everywhere marked by blood; to follow the footsteps or in the footsteps of one's predecessor.
  • noun. An evidence or token of anything done; a manifest mark or indication.
  • noun. In mech.: The pillow in which the foot of an upright or vertical shaft works.
  • noun. An inclined plane under a hand printing-press.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark.
  • noun. An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The mark or impression left by a foot; a track.
  • noun. By extension, the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken.
  • noun. The sound made by walking, running etc.
  • noun. A step, as in a stair.
  • noun. The distance between one foot and the next when walking; a pace.
  • noun. The act of taking a step.
  • noun. An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the distance covered by a step
  • noun. the act of taking a step in walking
  • noun. the sound of a step of someone walking
  • Word Usage
    "He notes that, ‘A series of footsteps, for instance, can form a single experienced event, despite the fact that each footstep is a separate sound.’"
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