Step vs. Stoop — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Step and Stoop
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Step
The single complete movement of raising one foot and putting it down in another spot, as in walking.
Stoop
To bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back
Had to stoop in order to fit into the cave.
Step
A manner of walking; a particular gait.
Stoop
To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
Step
A fixed rhythm or pace, as in marching
Keep step.
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Stoop
To lower or debase oneself
I wouldn't stoop to such behavior.
Step
The sound of a footstep.
Stoop
To descend from a superior social position; condescend
Would the prince stoop to have a meal with peasants?.
Step
A footprint
Steps in the mud.
Stoop
To swoop down, as a bird in pursuing its prey.
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Step
The distance traversed by moving one foot ahead of the other.
Stoop
To bend (oneself, the head, or the body) forward and down.
Step
A very short distance
Just a step away.
Stoop
To debase; humble
Stooped himself to such disgraceful acts.
Step
Steps Course; path
Turned her steps toward home.
Stoop
The act of stooping.
Step
One of a series of rhythmical, patterned movements of the feet used in a dance
Diagrammed the basic steps to the mambo.
Stoop
A forward bending of the head and upper back, especially when habitual
Walked with a stoop.
Step
A rest for the foot in ascending or descending.
Stoop
An act of self-abasement or condescension.
Step
Steps Stairs.
Stoop
A descent, as of a bird of prey.
Step
Something, such as a ledge or an offset, that resembles a step of a stairway.
Stoop
A small porch, platform, or staircase leading to the entrance of a house or building.
Step
A low platform used for exercise, as in step aerobics.
Stoop
Variant of stoup.
Step
One of a series of actions, processes, or measures taken to achieve a goal.
Stoop
A stooping, bent position of the body.
The old man walked with a stoop.
Step
A stage in a process
Followed every step in the instructions.
Stoop
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
Step
A degree in progress or a grade or rank in a scale
A step up in the corporate hierarchy.
Stoop
A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
Step
The interval that separates two successive tones of a scale, especially a major second, as between C and D in the scale of C major.
Stoop
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
Step
A degree of a scale.
Stoop
(US) The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
Step
(Nautical) The block in which the heel of a mast is fixed.
Stoop
(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Step
To put or press the foot
Step on the brake.
Stoop
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
Step
To shift or move slightly by taking a step or two
Step back.
Stoop
To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
Step
To walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified direction
Step over to the corner.
Stoop
(intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
Step
To move with the feet in a particular manner
Step lively.
Stoop
(transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
To stoop a cask of liquor
Step
To move into a new situation by or as if by taking a single step
Stepping into a life of ease.
Stoop
(transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Step
To treat someone with arrogant indifference
He is always stepping on other people.
Stoop
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Step
To put or set (the foot) down
Step foot on land.
Stoop
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Step
To measure by pacing
Step off ten yards.
Stoop
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Step
To furnish with steps; make steps in
Terraces that are stepped along the hillside.
Stoop
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
Step
(Computers) To cause (a computer) to execute a single instruction.
Stoop
A post fixed in the earth.
Step
(Nautical) To place (a mast) in its step.
Stoop
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Step
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
Stoop
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Can any loyal subject seeWith patience such a stoop from sovereignty?
Step
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.
Stoop
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Step
The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
Stoop
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Step
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
Stoop
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
These are arts, my prince,In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
Step
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
Stoop
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
Step
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.
Stoop
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour,Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
Step
A small space or distance.
It is but a step.
Stoop
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
And stoop with closing pinions from above.
Cowering lowWith blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
Step
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Stoop
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
Step
A gait; manner of walking.
The approach of a man is often known by his step.
Stoop
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
Step
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
Stoop
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Many of those whose states so tempt thine earsAre stooped by death; and many left alive.
Step
(in the plural) A walk; passage.
Stoop
To degrade.
Step
(in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Stoop
An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
Step
(nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
Stoop
Basin for holy water
Step
(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.
Stoop
Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
Step
(machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
Stoop
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
He crouched down
She bowed before the Queen
The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse
Step
(music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
Stoop
Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way;
I won't stoop to reading other people's mail
Step
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Stoop
Descend swiftly, as if on prey;
The eagle stooped on the mice in the field
Step
(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
Stoop
Sag, bend, bend over or down;
The rocks stooped down over the hiking path
Step
(colloquial) A stepchild.
Stoop
Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward;
The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane
Step
(slang) A stepsibling.
Step
(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.
Step
(intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
To step to one of the neighbors
Step
(intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Step
To dance.
Step
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
Step
(transitive) To set, as the foot.
Step
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Step
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.
Step
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
Step
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats,His flock before him stepping to the fold.
Step
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Step
To set, as the foot.
Step
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Step
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
Step
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
Step
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
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 principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
Step
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
Step
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Step
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
Step
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
Step
Walk; passage.
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
Step
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Step
In general, 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.
Step
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.
Step
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
Step
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Step
At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
Step
Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;
The situation called for strong measures
The police took steps to reduce crime
Step
The distance covered by a step;
He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig
Step
The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down;
He walked with unsteady steps
Step
Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway;
He paused on the bottom step
Step
Relative position in a graded series;
Always a step behind
Subtle gradations in color
Keep in step with the fashions
Step
A short distance;
It's only a step to the drugstore
Step
The sound of a step of someone walking;
He heard footsteps on the porch
Step
A musical interval of two semitones
Step
A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface;
The police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
Step
A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
Step
A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance;
He taught them the waltz step
Step
Shift or move by taking a step;
Step back
Step
Put down or press the foot, place the foot;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Step on the brake
Step
Cause (a computer) to execute a single command
Step
Treat badly;
This boss abuses his workers
She is always stepping on others to get ahead
Step
Furnish with steps;
The architect wants to step the terrace
Step
Move with one's feet in a specific manner;
Step lively
Step
Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner;
Step over to the blackboard
Step
Place (a ship's mast) in its step
Step
Measure (distances) by pacing;
Step off ten yards
Step
Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation;
She stepped into a life of luxury
He won't step into his father's footsteps
