The area designated for pedestrian crossing on a street is known as a zebra crossing or pedestrian path.
From the Latin passus , step is a term with multiple meanings. The concept can refer to the movement of the feet when walking: “When I wanted to take a step to the side, I tripped and hit my face on the flower pot,” “Please take a step forward so I can sweep this area.”
Other similar meanings of the notion refer to the distance traveled when walking , the followed movement that allows an animated being to advance and the mode or manner of walking : “Juan bought a bar that is located steps from the train station ” , “Upon hearing the footsteps, the man went out to the door and met the thief,” “The Federal Police prevented the passage of the protesters who intended to protest in front of the Ministry of the Interior.”
Steps when walking
The sound of footsteps when walking is a figure that is often used in horror stories, since it can generate anxiety in those who hear them if they do not know where they come from, especially if the scene is dark or apparently deserted. The possibilities are many, since footsteps produce different noises and sounds depending on the characteristics of the floor: generally, thriller movies resort to wooden houses with floors in poor condition, since they creak when someone walks on them. .
On the other hand, the steps not only provide information on the type of surface on which they occur, but also on the mood, age, body weight, species, among other properties of the subject. Slow and elongated steps can denote tiredness or old age; others, disparate and very fast, can be produced by a child or a young animal.
The movement performed in a dance is called a step.
Stages of a process
The successive advances in a process can be known as steps: “The first step is to qualify for the World Cup: then we will have time to analyze how far we can go” , “I don't know in which step I went wrong, but the recipe went wrong” , “Nail “The screws are the last step before having the finished piece of furniture.”
Organizing a process into steps has several benefits. First of all, it allows you to repeat it successfully as many times as you want, obtaining the same result each time. On the other hand, it also offers the possibility of teaching it to other people, so that they can reproduce it for themselves; This has been key to education and the transmission of knowledge among human beings since time immemorial.
By communicating an idea structured in steps, it is easier to explain and learn it, since this opens the doors to a fractional exposition of the process: by knowing all the steps, the person who assumes the role of teacher can decide to teach the content in several sessions , so that the student has more time to assimilate each part.
But this type of content organization is not only beneficial for dissemination, it also allows errors to be detected more easily: if a process does not yield the expected results, it is advisable to repeat it slowly to find the step that causes the error , and so on. be able to correct it in isolation.
From our birth, we learn to reproduce a large number of processes, although we are generally not aware of the steps that make them up; This explains certain vices in our posture, in our way of walking and speaking, for example, which can be corrected through re-education that shows us the independent parts of said actions.
Step as place and movement
Paso is also the place where you go from one part to another : “If you want to cross to Santa Isabel, I recommend using the Paso del Cobre, since the road is in better conditions,” “The border crossing was closed by the strong storms” , “The government announced the reopening of the railway crossing” .
The movements that are made in the dances , finally, are called steps: “My son learned the step from Michael Jackson,” “The girl surprised the jury with her risky steps.”