"stepping back" meaning in English

See stepping back in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} stepping back (uncountable)
  1. (rail transport) a system to decrease turnaround time at terminal stations where a second driver enters the rear cab of an arriving train and departs driving the train from that end while the first driver is walking the length of the platform ready to take over the subsequent departure. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Rail transportation Related terms: double-end, double-ending
    Sense id: en-stepping_back-en-noun-8MxCXtEn Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} stepping back
  1. present participle and gerund of step back Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: step back
    Sense id: en-stepping_back-en-verb-EbO6LaRO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68

Download JSON data for stepping back meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "stepping back",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "step back"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of step back"
      ],
      "id": "en-stepping_back-en-verb-EbO6LaRO",
      "links": [
        [
          "step back",
          "step back#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stepping back"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "stepping back (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a system to decrease turnaround time at terminal stations where a second driver enters the rear cab of an arriving train and departs driving the train from that end while the first driver is walking the length of the platform ready to take over the subsequent departure."
      ],
      "id": "en-stepping_back-en-noun-8MxCXtEn",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) a system to decrease turnaround time at terminal stations where a second driver enters the rear cab of an arriving train and departs driving the train from that end while the first driver is walking the length of the platform ready to take over the subsequent departure."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "double-end"
        },
        {
          "word": "double-ending"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stepping back"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "stepping back",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "step back"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of step back"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "step back",
          "step back#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stepping back"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "stepping back (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "double-end"
    },
    {
      "word": "double-ending"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a system to decrease turnaround time at terminal stations where a second driver enters the rear cab of an arriving train and departs driving the train from that end while the first driver is walking the length of the platform ready to take over the subsequent departure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) a system to decrease turnaround time at terminal stations where a second driver enters the rear cab of an arriving train and departs driving the train from that end while the first driver is walking the length of the platform ready to take over the subsequent departure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stepping back"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.