different between stepper vs steppe

English

Etymology

step +? -er

Noun

stepper (plural steppers)

1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
2. A dancer. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly

     You remind me of my stepper, 'cause I know you gon' slide

3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
5. A type of exercise machine.
6. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
   • 2013, Matthew David, HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications (page 58)

     The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers.

7. (Britain, obsolete, slang, historical) A prison treadmill.
   • 1883, George Atkins Brine, The King of the Beggars (page 164)

     On the treadmill we were shut up in little boxes, almost pitch dark, and the handrail to catch hold of when treading the mill was so high […] I refused point blank, one morning, to go on the stepper on plea of illness, […]

Anagrams

• Teppers

Danish

Noun

stepper c

1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stepper m

1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stepper f

1. indefinite plural of steppe

English

Etymology

From German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian ????? (step?, “flat grassy plain”) or Ukrainian ???? (step). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *?????? (s?tep?, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to ????? (topot), ??????? (toptat?).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /st?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: step

Noun

steppe (countable and uncountable, plural steppes)

1. The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savanna. [from 1671]
2. A vast cold, dry grass-plain.

Usage notes

Although it may be the steppe biome, one would not normally speak of the steppes of Canada, whereas one would speak of the steppes of Asia or the steppes of Russia.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• US prairie
• savanna
• plain
• (South African) veld

References

• Mel?ny?uk O. S., editor (1982–2012) , “????”, in Etymolohi?nyj slovnyk ukrajins?koji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyjiv: Naukova Dumka

Further reading

• steppe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Estepp

Danish

Noun

steppe c (definite singular steppen, indefinite plural stepper, definite plural stepperne)

1. steppe (large treeless grass plain)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Steppe or French steppe, from Russian ????? (step?, “flat grassy plain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?p?/
• Hyphenation: step?pe
• Rhymes: -?p?

Noun

steppe f (plural steppes, diminutive steppetje n)

1. steppe

Derived terms

• steppenroller

French

Etymology

From Russian ????? (step?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Noun

steppe f (plural steppes)

1. steppe

Derived terms

• aigle des steppes

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?p?/

Verb

steppe

1. inflection of steppen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Noun

steppe f

1. plural of steppa

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stepe, stape, steape, stap, step, steepe

Etymology

From Old English stæpe, stepe, from Proto-Germanic *stapiz, *stap?. The (historical) geminate is influence from steppen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?p(?)/, /?st??p(?)/, /?stap(?)/, /?sta?p(?)/

Noun

steppe (plural steppes or stepen)

1. A step, pace (movement of the foot)
2. A step or stair; an individual landing of a set of stairs.
3. An imprint or sign of something; that which something leaves as evidence:
   1. The imprint left by a step; a footprint or track.
   2. The imprint left by a thing, person or phenomenon (extant or former)
   3. (figuratively) The remains left by an injury or disease.
4. The bottom region of the foot; the sole.
5. A phase, step or tier as part of a scale or process.
6. (figuratively) A move, action or direction (towards an objective).
7. (rare) The length covered by a step (as a unit of length, ~2.5 feet)
8. (rare) The ground; a foothold or stepping-place.
9. (rare) A group or a thing that is part of it.

Descendants

• English: step
• Scots: step, stap, stop

References

• “step, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-1.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

steppe m (definite singular steppen, indefinite plural stepper, definite plural steppene)

1. steppe (large treeless grass plain)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

steppe f (definite singular steppa, indefinite plural stepper, definite plural steppene)

1. steppe (large treeless grass plain)