stepper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
    — I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.
  2. A dancer.
    — Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."
  3. A dancer in a step show.
    — Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping.
  4. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
  5. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
  6. A type of exercise machine.
    — I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead.
  7. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
    — The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers.
  8. A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing. colloquial,especially,in-plural
    — "And I would dress smack daddy down." Tawanda throws her head back, laughing. "The other girls was all lacy-like, with high heels; I had steppers, low heels like men's spectator shoes, and pointy toes. I got the foot for it and I got the height; I would put on the suit, the pantsuit, go out there with my megaphone, and step—I would STEP!" She hops to her feet and does a step or two.
  9. A prison treadmill. UK,historical,obsolete,slang
    — 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, […]
  10. A foot. slang
  11. The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws. slang

词形变化

steppers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
13th stepper goose-stepper high-stepper light stepper microstepper stepper motor twelve-stepper

词源

From step + -er.
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