Verb
Not to go as far as a boundary or limit.
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The Questers were many, and fortunately the Answerer did not too often overstep or understep the mark.
For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.
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They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.
Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time.
If you're working on a structured question check the number of marks allocated for each part of the question and divide up your words accordingly. Finally, don't understep the word limit.
To take a step that is not far enough forward.
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As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs.
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If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.
Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
To have a gait in which the hind foot touches the ground behind the point where the front foot touches the ground.
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As a general rule, a stag treads more cleanly than a hind, his stride is longer, the slot itself being rounder and less elongated ; while a hind or young stag understeps frequently, leaving in consequence a more or less double track.
Noun
A gait in which the hind feet touch the ground behind the point where the front feet touch the ground.
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The resulting trail is an understep walk—the hind tracks in each pair register behind the front tracks.
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A few animals, such as bison, commonly use an understep walk, while several species, including black bears, cougars and pronghorn regularly use an overstep walk.
Therefore, an understep (where the hind track lies behind the front track) is probably a slower gait than a direct-registering walk where the hind lies on top of the front, and both are probably slower than an overstep walk, where the hind track registers beyond the front track.
A step that acts as a base to hold something.
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Written in minuscule script and placed on the shaded understep at the feet of the Virgin, the pious dedication was appropriate for the subject and its intended location.
The underside of a step.
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In the back room and understeps, recessed lights are used.
He hit his head on an understep and slammed back down again, gasping with pain.
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Jay had discovered the understeps before they had even gotten to middle school.
A movement in which one understeps.
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Understeps were easy to detect, as the paw missed the rung entirely and the rat had to catch itself so it didn't stumble.
Adjective
Underneath a step.
Usage- not-comparable
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Escalator modernization including handrail speed monitors, Safe-T- Brakes, emergency stop relocation, understep lighting, reconditioning of steps and related improvements.