different between ploy vs step
ploy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plic?re.
Noun
ploy (countable and uncountable, plural ploys)
- A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
- (obsolete) Employment.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably abbreviated from deploy.
Verb
ploy (third-person singular simple present ploys, present participle ploying, simple past and past participle ployed)
- (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
- Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
Antonyms
- deploy
References
ploy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- -poly, poly, poly-
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Verb
ploy
- To flex.
- To curve.
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step
English
Etymology
From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish st?pa? (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ??????? (stupat?) and Polish stopie? (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian ??????? (stepen?). Related to stamp, stomp.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /st?p/
- Hyphenation: step
- Rhymes: -?p
- Homophone: steppe
Noun
step (plural steps)
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations: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.
- 1624, Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements Of Architecture
- The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
- 1624, Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements Of Architecture
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- 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.
- A small space or distance.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Preface to his collection of poems
- The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
- c. 1792, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
- Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
- 1879, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days
- I have lately taken steps […] to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Moon has also requested that government officials take additional steps to help fight pollution, his spokesman said.
- Moon has also requested that government officials take additional steps to help fight pollution, his spokesman said.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Preface to his collection of poems
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- (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.
- (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.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- (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.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of William Kingdon Clifford to this entry?)
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (slang) A stepsibling.
Synonyms
- stride
Hyponyms
- back step, half step, etc. see under back, half, etc.
- cyclic step
Derived terms
- cross-step (a step in which one foot is crossed over another; the action of taking such a step or steps)
- step-by-step
- step-free
- stepmeal
- stepwise
Related terms
Translations
Verb
step (third-person singular simple present steps, present participle stepping, simple past stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stope, past participle stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stopen)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- 2010, Charles E. Miller, Winds of Mercy: 40 Short Stories (page 219)
- One of the women, Elsie, stepped her foot inside to help the woman.
- 2010, Charles E. Miller, Winds of Mercy: 40 Short Stories (page 219)
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth
- We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.
- 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- step-
Further reading
- step in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- step at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, spet
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
Etymology 1
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Noun
step f
- steppe
Declension
Etymology 2
From English step
Noun
step m inanimate
- tap dance
Declension
Further reading
- step in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- step in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English step (“footrest on a bicycle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
- Hyphenation: step
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
step f (plural steps, diminutive stepje n)
- kick scooter
- Synonyms: autoped, trottinette
- (dated) A mounting bracket on a bicycle.
Derived terms
- steppen
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s(?)t?p/
- Hyphenation: stèp
Etymology 1
From English step, from Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Noun
stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)
- step; pace, gait.
Etymology 2
From Dutch stuip (“convulsion”), from Middle Dutch st?pe, stupen, stuypen (“convulsion”, literally “to duck, to bend down”), from Old English stupian (“to stoop, bend over”) (compare to English stoop (“to bend”)), from Old Norse stúpa, from Proto-Germanic *st?p?n?, *st?pijan? (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”).
Noun
stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)
- (colloquial, medicine) convulsion.
- Synonym: setip
- Synonyms: sawan, kejang
Further reading
- “step” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Noun
step
- Alternative form of steppe
Polish
Etymology
From Ukrainian ???? (step).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
Noun
step m inan
- (often in the plural) steppe
Declension
Further reading
- step in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- step in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
From English step.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?step/, [?st?ep]
- IPA(key): /es?tep/, [es?t?ep]
Noun
step m (uncountable)
- step training
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