If you take a step, you lift your foot and put it down in a different place, for example when you are walking.

If you step on something or step in a particular direction, you put your foot on the thing or move your foot in that direction.

Steps are a series of surfaces at increasing or decreasing heights, on which you put your feet in order to walk up or down to a different level.

A step is a raised flat surface in front of a door.

A step is one of a series of actions that you take in order to achieve something.

A step in a process is one of a series of stages.

The steps of a dance are the sequences of foot movements which make it up.

Someone's step is the way they walk.

Steps are the same as a stepladder .

If you stay one step ahead of someone or something, you manage to achieve more than they do or avoid competition or danger from them.

If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.

If people are in step with each other, their ideas or opinions are the same. If they are out of step with each other, their ideas or opinions are different.

If you tell someone to step on it, you are telling them to go faster or hurry up.

If you do something step by step, you do it by progressing gradually from one stage to the next.

If someone tells you to watch your step, they are warning you to be careful about how you behave or what you say so that you do not get into trouble.