STEP FORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does step forward mean? 

• STEP FORWARD (verb)
  The verb STEP FORWARD has 1 sense:

1. make oneself visible; take action

  Familiarity information: STEP FORWARD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEP FORWARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make oneself visible; take action

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come forward; come out; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up

Context example:

Young people should step to the fore and help their peers

Hypernyms (to "step forward" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Mr. Mason, have the goodness to step forward.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Could he expect that her friends would not step forward?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Graphene promises a significant step forward in performance for the key components of telecommunications and data communications.

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)

Dr. Armstrong took a quick step forward and wrung Holmes by the hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Day succeeded day, and my friend took no step forward.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we emerged from the sitting-room a woman, who had been waiting in the passage, took a step forward and laid her hand upon the Inspector’s sleeve.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The determination of the structure of this closed configuration of the HIV spike protein and the direct visualization of its fast openings represent a major step forward for drug and vaccine design.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

The investigators concluded that IV BCG conferred an unprecedented degree of protection in an animal model of severe TB and “represents a major step forward in the field of TB vaccine research.”

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

The method was undoubtedly a step forward, as it allowed for more cost-effective diagnosis.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)