v (intransitive) 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.
v (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
v (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
v (intransitive|figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
v (transitive) To set, as the foot.
v (transitive)(nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its 'step'; to erect.
n An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
n 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.
n A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
n The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
n (plural): A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
n (nautical) 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.
n (context|machines) 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
n (context|machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
n (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.