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verb

Step v. i. (past & past part. stepped; pres. part. stepping)

1.

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.

2.

To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

3.

To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. "Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold."

4.

Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. "They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity."

To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company.

To step forth, to move or come forth.

To step in or To step into.

(a)

To walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in. "Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

(b)

To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the house.

(c)

To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.

To step out.

(a)

(Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.

(b)

To go out for a short distance or a short time.

To step short (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules.

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"Step out" Quotes from Famous Books

... We'll make a step out of this board. The stars are bright enough." Fitzgerald climbed out first, and then ...

— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath

... prison walls to visitors who are too weak to face a steep ascent on foot or even on donkey-back, for drives are out of the question except along one or two monotonous roads. But the country round Cannes is full of easy walks and drives, and it is as varied and beautiful as it is accessible. You step out of your hotel into the midst of wild scenery, rough hills of broken granite screened with firs, or paths winding through a wilderness of white heath. Everywhere in spring the ground is carpeted with a profusion of wild-flowers, cistus and ...

— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green

... his tender love. All this was accomplished with as little noise as possible, in order to prevent the mischance of awakening the marquis de l'Hopital, who was quietly asleep in an adjoining room. One clear moonlight night, at the very instant when M. de Cressy was about to step out of the window, in order to return to his own apartment, a terrible crash of broken glass was heard. The terrified chevalier sought the aid of his ladder, but it had disappeared. Not knowing what to do, the chevalier returned to madame ...

— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... de last year of de war, and Miss Margaret, dat was our Mistress, run de place wid overseers dat would thrash you for all sorts of things. If they ketch you leanin' on your hoe handle, they'd beat you; step out of your task a minute or speak to a girl, they'd beat you. Oh, it was hell when de overseers was around and de mistress nor none of de young marsters was dere to protect you. Us was fed good, but not clothed so good ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration

... knowed ye wasn't one as 'ud play us a dirty trick. Coom along, an' we'se have a drop all round, an' drink thy 'ealth an' th' bride's too. Ho! ho! ho! Aye, we'se wish thee an' thy missus good luck! Coom, we'se step out an' ...

— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

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