Interval vs. Step — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Interval and Step
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Interval
An intervening time
The day should be dry with sunny intervals
After his departure, there was an interval of many years without any meetings
Step
The single complete movement of raising one foot and putting it down in another spot, as in walking.
Interval
A pause or break in activity
An interval of mourning
Step
A manner of walking; a particular gait.
Interval
A space between two things; a gap.
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Step
A fixed rhythm or pace, as in marching
Keep step.
Interval
The difference in pitch between two sounds.
Step
The sound of a footstep.
Interval
A space between objects, points, or units, especially when making uniform amounts of separation
We set up hurdles at intervals of 15 yards around the track.
Step
A footprint
Steps in the mud.
Interval
An amount of time between events, especially of uniform duration separating events in a series
We ran laps at 30-second intervals.
Step
The distance traversed by moving one foot ahead of the other.
Interval
A segment of an athletic workout in which an athlete runs, swims, or does other exercise over a series of predetermined distances at regular time increments with intermittent rests.
Step
A very short distance
Just a step away.
Interval
A set of numbers consisting of all the numbers between a pair of given numbers along with either, both, or none of the endpoints.
Step
Steps Course; path
Turned her steps toward home.
Interval
A closed interval.
Step
One of a series of rhythmical, patterned movements of the feet used in a dance
Diagrammed the basic steps to the mambo.
Interval
An open interval.
Step
A rest for the foot in ascending or descending.
Interval
A half-open interval.
Step
Steps Stairs.
Interval
A line segment representing the set of numbers in an interval.
Step
Something, such as a ledge or an offset, that resembles a step of a stairway.
Interval
Chiefly British An intermission, as between acts of a play.
Step
A low platform used for exercise, as in step aerobics.
Interval
(Music) The difference, usually expressed in the number of steps, between two pitches.
Step
One of a series of actions, processes, or measures taken to achieve a goal.
Interval
A distance in space.
Step
A stage in a process
Followed every step in the instructions.
Interval
A period of time.
The interval between contractions during childbirth
Step
A degree in progress or a grade or rank in a scale
A step up in the corporate hierarchy.
Interval
(music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
Step
The interval that separates two successive tones of a scale, especially a major second, as between C and D in the scale of C major.
Interval
(mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
Step
A degree of a scale.
Interval
An intermission.
Step
(Nautical) The block in which the heel of a mast is fixed.
Interval
(sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
Step
To put or press the foot
Step on the brake.
Interval
(cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
Step
To shift or move slightly by taking a step or two
Step back.
Interval
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,A dreadful interval.
Step
To walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified direction
Step over to the corner.
Interval
Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.
Step
To move with the feet in a particular manner
Step lively.
Interval
A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
Step
To move into a new situation by or as if by taking a single step
Stepping into a life of ease.
Interval
Difference in pitch between any two tones.
Step
To treat someone with arrogant indifference
He is always stepping on other people.
Interval
A definite length of time marked off by two instants
Step
To put or set (the foot) down
Step foot on land.
Interval
A set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
Step
To measure by pacing
Step off ten yards.
Interval
The distance between things;
Fragile items require separation and cushioning
Step
To furnish with steps; make steps in
Terraces that are stepped along the hillside.
Interval
The difference in pitch between two notes
Step
(Computers) To cause (a computer) to execute a single instruction.
Step
(Nautical) To place (a mast) in its step.
Step
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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.
Step
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.
Step
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
Step
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
Step
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
Step
A small space or distance.
It is but a step.
Step
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Step
A gait; manner of walking.
The approach of a man is often known by his step.
Step
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
Step
(in the plural) A walk; passage.
Step
(in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Step
(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.
Step
(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.
Step
(machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
Step
(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.
Step
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Step
(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
Step
(colloquial) A stepchild.
Step
(slang) A stepsibling.
Step
(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.
Step
(intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
To step to one of the neighbors
Step
(intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Step
To dance.
Step
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
Step
(transitive) To set, as the foot.
Step
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Step
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.
Step
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
Step
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats,His flock before him stepping to the fold.
Step
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Step
To set, as the foot.
Step
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Step
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
Step
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
Step
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
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.
Step
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
Step
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Step
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
Step
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
Step
Walk; passage.
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
Step
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Step
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
Step
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.
Step
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
Step
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Step
At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
Step
Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;
The situation called for strong measures
The police took steps to reduce crime
Step
The distance covered by a step;
He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig
Step
The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down;
He walked with unsteady steps
Step
Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway;
He paused on the bottom step
Step
Relative position in a graded series;
Always a step behind
Subtle gradations in color
Keep in step with the fashions
Step
A short distance;
It's only a step to the drugstore
Step
The sound of a step of someone walking;
He heard footsteps on the porch
Step
A musical interval of two semitones
Step
A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface;
The police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
Step
A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
Step
A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance;
He taught them the waltz step
Step
Shift or move by taking a step;
Step back
Step
Put down or press the foot, place the foot;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Step on the brake
Step
Cause (a computer) to execute a single command
Step
Treat badly;
This boss abuses his workers
She is always stepping on others to get ahead
Step
Furnish with steps;
The architect wants to step the terrace
Step
Move with one's feet in a specific manner;
Step lively
Step
Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner;
Step over to the blackboard
Step
Place (a ship's mast) in its step
Step
Measure (distances) by pacing;
Step off ten yards
Step
Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation;
She stepped into a life of luxury
He won't step into his father's footsteps
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