(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; specif., 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.
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
(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.
(intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
(transitive) To set, as the foot.
(transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
