different between stepper vs stepped

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?pt/

Verb

stepped

1. simple past tense and past participle of step

Adjective

stepped (not comparable)

1. Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.

   a stepped key

   a stepped gear