English Dictionary

stepper

名詞

口語 特に 複数形 イギリス英語 歴史的 廃用 俗語

A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high. / A dancer. / (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.

日本語の意味

足踏みする人や動物（特に活発に、または大きく足を踏み鳴らす場合） / ダンサー / ステップショーで踊るダンサー

The stepper at the front of the parade lifted his knees high and marched with a grin.

パレードの先頭にいた、膝を高く上げて行進する人は、にっこり笑いながら行進した。

意味（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.

意味（2）

A dancer.

Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."

意味（3）

(more specifically) 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.

意味（4）

A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.

意味（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).

意味（6）

A type of exercise machine.

I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead.

意味（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.

意味（8）

(colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.

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.

意味（9）

(UK, obsolete, slang, historical) A prison treadmill.

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, […]

steppers （ plural ）