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steps

stɛps
WordNet
Flower dress, Daghestan or Shirwan. Midfield: gold ocher background with an infinite grid of brown-black stepped diagonals that form meshes in which sloping calyx flowers in blue, bleu, red, green and white. The grid nodes have hexagons in green, red, white and ocher. Edges: two-fold. The outer one is red with slanted S-sen in the mentioned colors. The inner seam is light blue with oblique S-stitches.
Flower dress, Daghestan or Shirwan. Midfield: gold ocher background with an infinite grid of brown-black stepped diagonals that form meshes in which sloping calyx flowers in blue, bleu, red, green and white. The grid nodes have hexagons in green, red, white and ocher. Edges: two-fold. The outer one is red with slanted S-sen in the mentioned colors. The inner seam is light blue with oblique S-stitches.
  1. (n) steps
    a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
  2. (n) steps
    the course along which a person has walked or is walking in "I followed in his steps","he retraced his steps","his steps turned toward home"
Illustrations
Prayer rug with top panel, MUDJUR. Midfield: cherry red mihrab with high gable with five-colored stepped gable lines. The spandrels are gray-green with two red oil cans. A narrow frieze shows a yellow "omega line" that divides the panel into blue and black battlements. Randn: multiple. The widest is yellow with recessed pure squares, filled with a star flower and separate diagonal leaves in many colors, finely divided kaleidoscopically. The inside seam in blue with diamonds is set in two equal speckled piping. The outer seam is black.
Prayer rug with top panel, MUDJUR. Midfield: cherry red mihrab with high gable with five-colored stepped gable lines. The spandrels are gray-green with two red oil cans. A narrow frieze shows a yellow "omega line" that divides the panel into blue and black battlements. Randn: multiple. The widest is yellow with recessed pure squares, filled with a star flower and separate diagonal leaves in many colors, finely divided kaleidoscopically. The inside seam in blue with diamonds is set in two equal speckled piping. The outer seam is black.
Oriental carpet, prayer rug, of knotted wool, decorated with a terra-red mihrab, with a high stepped gable. The top field is decorated with tulips. Around three edges, the middle one decorated with flowers.
Oriental carpet, prayer rug, of knotted wool, decorated with a terra-red mihrab, with a high stepped gable. The top field is decorated with tulips. Around three edges, the middle one decorated with flowers.
Prayer rug with upper transverse panel, LADIK. Midfield: Solid red mihrab with a raised step gable top in the center. Blue spandrels with multicolored star flowers and serrated lancet leaves on a supine S-rank. A crenellated edge is in pink with white "omega line", interlocking with a red top panel, on which are tall tulips, alternating in blue (3) and white (2). Edges: quadruple. The main border is soft yellow with diamond-shaped, pressed rosette flowers, alternating with angled, striped tulips. An inner seam is black with multicolored rosettes. The outer seam is also black, with carnations. A white frame runs around the niche and the spandrels; another frame wraps around the top panel on three sides. Beard: a solid red beard of 5 cm. wide is (still ddels) present at the top.
Prayer rug with upper transverse panel, LADIK. Midfield: Solid red mihrab with a raised step gable top in the center. Blue spandrels with multicolored star flowers and serrated lancet leaves on a supine S-rank. A crenellated edge is in pink with white "omega line", interlocking with a red top panel, on which are tall tulips, alternating in blue (3) and white (2). Edges: quadruple. The main border is soft yellow with diamond-shaped, pressed rosette flowers, alternating with angled, striped tulips. An inner seam is black with multicolored rosettes. The outer seam is also black, with carnations. A white frame runs around the niche and the spandrels; another frame wraps around the top panel on three sides. Beard: a solid red beard of 5 cm. wide is (still ddels) present at the top.
Moonstone and steps in front of King Mahasena's palace at Anuradhapura
Prayer rug, stepped mirab on red background, yellow and red edges.
Prayer rug, stepped mirab on red background, yellow and red edges.
A farmhouse with a stepped gable in a dune landscape. A man stands at the gate in front of the house, a shepherd in the foreground.
Farm house in a wooded dune landscape
Judith with Holofernes' head. Judith steps out of the tent opening with the sword in her right hand and the severed head in her left. On the right a shadow of the maidservant.
Judith with Holofernes' head. Judith steps out of the tent opening with the sword in her right hand and the severed head in her left. On the right a shadow of the maidservant.
Tile panel with the three graces: under a gate that is covered with a three-step motif we see on either side of the naked Truth with her classic hairdress and the sun of righteousness as a nimbus behind her head, the young woman Schoon with a flower crown on her head and the somewhat more mature woman Good with stalks of corn braided in her hair. While Waar puts her arm around Good, she becomes involved with Schoon through the banderole with the inscription IN ME IS ALL GRACE OF LIFE AND THE TRUTH. IN ME, ALL HOPE OF LIFE IS THE END OF Virtue. Signed: ro Rozenburg den Haag K (jrl. = 1893); lo Georg: Sturm inv: 1892 / D Harkink pinx. On the back of each tile in relief ROZENBURG / THE HAGUE. Painting under lead glaze in beige and brown.
Tile panel with the three graces: under a gate that is covered with a three-step motif we see on either side of the naked Truth with her classic hairdress and the sun of righteousness as a nimbus behind her head, the young woman Schoon with a flower crown on her head and the somewhat more mature woman Good with stalks of corn braided in her hair. While Waar puts her arm around Good, she becomes involved with Schoon through the banderole with the inscription IN ME IS ALL GRACE OF LIFE AND THE TRUTH. IN ME, ALL HOPE OF LIFE IS THE END OF Virtue. Signed: ro Rozenburg den Haag K (jrl. = 1893); lo Georg: Sturm inv: 1892 / D Harkink pinx. On the back of each tile in relief ROZENBURG / THE HAGUE. Painting under lead glaze in beige and brown.
Quotations
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissner
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
Sir Walter Scott
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott
Never step over one duty to perform another.
English Proverb
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Idioms

Step on it - This idiom is a way of telling someone to hurry up or to go faster.

Step on someone's toes - If you step on someone's toes, you upset them, especially if you do something that they should be in charge of.

Step up a gear - If you step up a gear, you perform noticeably better, especially in sport.

Step up to the plate - If someone steps up to the plate, they take on or accept a challenge or a responsibility.

Usage in the news

A step-by-step evaluation process, using key performance indicators, can help purchasing manage supplier relations and make better sourcing decisions. ism.ws

Watch this video to learn how to make it and see our step-by-step how-to. rachaelraymag.com

A step into the Buena Vista is a step back in time. sfweekly.com

Christine Lakin played Alicia 'Al' Lambert on the sitcom 'Step By Step. k96fm.com

Give credit to TechRadar for noticing this one: Microsoft apparently is taking a step - a tiny step - toward eliminating QuickTime on the Windows platform. pcmag.com

Step-by-Step: Growing Salad Greens . gardendesign.com

Step- By-Step faces wrongful death suit. timesleader.com

A Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing the Right Site. areadevelopment.com

Club President and friend Mike Tillman has stepped down after fifteen years of service, and none have stepped forward to replace him. kool1017.com

New Yorkers have become increasingly conscious of what steps they can take to help the environment — from using less water to buying local produce — but we've taken one big step simply by living here. amny.com

Blogs Surviving Step By Step Surviving Step by Step: Happy New Year. navarrepress.com

Check out this simple step-by-step video guide to baking gingerbread men (and women). 947wmas.com

FPGA programming step by step. eet.com

Blogs Surviving Step By Step Surviving Step by Step:Happy New Year . navarrepress.com

Each set includes everything you need for a glamorous night out, including a step-by-step application guide from celebrity makeup artist Sarah Lucero. fitnessmagazine.com

Usage in scientific papers

These vertices are removed from Γ in the execution of a Step 1 or Step 2 of 2greedy and they are internal vertices of paths of M at the start of Step 3.
An almost linear time algorithm for finding Hamilton cycles in sparse random graphs with minimum degree at least three

A θc = ˆA + ˆB and θ2 = 1 − θa − θb − θc and ∆ξ is the proportion of steps in [t, t + ρ] that are Step 1ξ or Step 2, if ξ = 2.
An almost linear time algorithm for finding Hamilton cycles in sparse random graphs with minimum degree at least three

We use the fact that almost all of the first n1−ε steps are Step 2 to see that the edges incident with u occuring in the first n1−ε /10 steps will indeed be selected before time n1−ε .
An almost linear time algorithm for finding Hamilton cycles in sparse random graphs with minimum degree at least three

This is now immediate from the Steps I and II since by the Step I each ui is a reduced word in the alphabet X and by the Step II any cancellation clearly begins at the interface of adjacent ui ’s and stops before reaching the basic symbols x ∈ X (use:S ∩ S −1 =
Excursions in Group Theory

With the exception of step 3 (where we search for the normal surface S ), every step of the algorithm runs in time polynomial in c; in contrast, step 3 runs in time O(3n × poly(n)), where n is the number of tetrahedra in the triangulation T .
A fast branching algorithm for unknot recognition with experimental polynomial-time behaviour

Usage in literature

I looked round, with a start, and flushed and faltered, receding a step from him. "Uncle Silas" by J. S. LeFanu

Orange did not take this extreme step without adequate cause. "History of Holland" by George Edmundson

The first step was up to his knees, and the second step was up to his waist. "Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)" by Various

As the afternoon was waning I retraced my steps and returned to the ranch. "The Rustlers of Pecos County" by Zane Grey

When I found that he dodged my steps, I spoke to him again, and threatened that I should acquaint Mr. Verner. "Verner's Pride" by Mrs. Henry Wood

A light step, almost unheard on the soft ground, approached, and the low bushes rustled as if against a silk garment. "The Northern Light" by E. Werner

Moored to the steps, several wherries were dancing in the rushing current, as if impatient of restraint. "Jack Sheppard" by William Harrison Ainsworth

Then he stepped softly to the bunk-room, took Sinker's hat and stepped back to the table. "Sundown Slim" by Henry Hubert Knibbs

He lighted the lantern and sat down on the steps waiting for the boy. "The Ridin' Kid from Powder River" by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Then her father hurried down the steps, and got into the doctor's buggy and drove away. "By the Light of the Soul" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Usage in poetry
The cold, far feet of the tides
That trod between us two,
Can never retrace their steps,
And fall where they used to do.
Another hand is beckoning us,
Another call is given;
And glows once more with Angel-steps
The path which reaches Heaven.
Then Mrs. Lily, the nuss,
Towards them steps with joy;
Says the brave old Duke, "Come tell to us,
Is it a gal or a boy?"
And, as I slowly walked, I felt
An unseen presence step with me,
That gave to field and woodland belt
A universal memory.
"Yet, fearing to approach too near,
I lingered far behind:
And, lest my step should reach her ear,
I shook at every wind.
When the chain shall at last be broken,
The window set wide;
And I step in the largeness and freedom
Of sunlight outside ;