step on it
To drive fast; to step on the accelerator.
If I step on it, I can still arrive on time.
step
UK /stɛp/ US /stɛp/
noun 7verb 5name 2
Definitions
noun
1
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 short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
2
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.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
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 here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
3
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.
4
The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
5
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
verb
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.
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 alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
2
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
Come one, come all. Step right up!
to step to one of the neighbors
3
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
4
To dance.
At arms length with left hands clasped they moved back where facing each other they stepped in time to their dance embrace.
She clapped, but instead of walking her back to the table, Alex took her hand and pulled her gently towards him, slipping his arm around her waist again and stepping her off on the first beat of the next dance.
5
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
noun
1
A stepchild.
[Krazy Kat, after complimenting a woman on her nice polite little child:] Boy or girl? [Woman:] Step – but well brung up.
2
A stepsibling.
So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.
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