Step Taken

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• a statute in draft before it becomes law

• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• express as a number or measure or quantity

• have certain dimensions

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• any distinct time period in a sequence of events

• (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary

• a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

• (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun)

• arrange in phases or stages

• adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition

• the sound of a step of someone walking

• the act of taking a step in walking

• the distance covered by a step