Meanings (ES + gloss)
paso
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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 sho…
escalón • peldaño
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.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even…
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
paso
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
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 prin…
paso
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
paso
A gait; manner of walking.
The approach of a man is often known by his step.
Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
etapa • medida • paso • providencia
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Phrases
13th stepEureka stepIrish step dancingPenrose stepsPinoy stepT-stepTecumseh step testTennessee quick stepa journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepbaby stepbetween-stepbody stepcatch stepcoaster stepcorbie stepcorbie-stepcross-stepdance stepfalse stepfire stepfish stepsgoose stepgoose-stephalf-stephigh-stepin stepkick-stepmast stepmisstepnaughty stepoblique stepone small step for man, one giant leap for mankindone step aheadone step at a timeone-stepout of steppep in one's steprest stepretrace one's stepsroute step
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pisar
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.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alo…
Phrases
cross-stepgoose-stepmissteproll stepsmell what someone is stepping instep and repeatstep asidestep backstep betweenstep dancestep downstep forthstep forwardstep instep intostep into someone's shoesstep into the breachstep itstep livelystep offstep onstep on a duckstep on a frogstep on a rakestep on itstep on someone's linesstep on someone's toesstep on the gasstep on the laughsstep outstep out of linestep out on someonestep overstep shortstep tostep upstep up onstep up to the platestep-instep-off