Between-step
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Between-step is a noun meaning An intermediate or intermediary step, stage, process, or phase.
Meaning
An intermediate or intermediary step, stage, process, or phase.
More Meanings
- (attributive) Intermediate; intermediary; in-process; interim.
Example Sentences
Furthermore, in conjunction with various forms of pneumatic interlocking, the whole system fails safe, particularly in not holding a between-step condition.
If you find that your next situation on the stepladder is very frightening, then it is obviously too big a step and you should try to think of ways to make it a little easier, as a between step.
Clearly, the bottle-arms of this "Angel" represent, at one and the same time, the mother's breasts and the father's penis — though we should not forget the between-step of the concept of the mother's penis, [...]
I do not know, nor do I care to know, whether they are a sex by themselves, a justified, because helpless, play of Nature; or even a kind of logically essential link, a between-step, as you seem to have persuaded yourself.
Word Forms
- between-steps
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intermediary, interim, forestep, phase, waystage, gateway.
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