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Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

Example: It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.

Definition: Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

Example: 1865, The Act of Suicide as Distinct from the Crime of Self-Murder: A Sermon

Definition: For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.

Example: They're big as houses.

Definition: In the role of.

Example: He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.

Example: As you wish, my lord!

Definition: At the time that; during the time when:

Definition: Being that, considering that, because, since.

Example: As it’s too late, I quit.

Definition: Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if.

Definition: Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.)

Example: He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.

Definition: (possibly obsolete) Than.

Phonetic: "/æɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin script letter A/a.

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The person or thing in the first position.

Example: He was the first to complete the course.

Definition: The first gear of an engine.

Definition: Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

Example: This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.

Definition: First base

Example: There was a close play at first.

Definition: A first-class honours degree.

Definition: A first-edition copy of some publication.

Definition: A fraction of an integer ending in one.

Example: one forty-first of the estate

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

Example: I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.

Definition: Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

Example: Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Before anything else; firstly.

Example: Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.

Definition: For the first time;

Example: I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.

Phonetic: "/stɛp/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

Example: He improved step by step, or by steps.

Definition: A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

Example: The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.

Definition: The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

Example: One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.

Definition: A small space or distance.

Example: It is but a step.

Definition: A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

Definition: A gait; manner of walking.

Example: The approach of a man is often known by his step.

Definition: Proceeding; measure; action; act.

Definition: (plural) A walk; passage.

Definition: (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

Definition: 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.

Definition: (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.

Definition: (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

Definition: The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

Definition: (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

Definition: A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

Example: Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.

Definition: A stepsibling.

Phonetic: "/stɛp/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: 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.

Definition: To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.

Example: to step to one of the neighbors

Definition: To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

Definition: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

Definition: To set, as the foot.

Definition: To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.