Half-Step is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 391 anagrams from letters in half-step (-aefhlpst).
First recorded in 1900-05
Johnnie took a half-step forward, when Hull pressed him back.
The steel robot took a half-step toward him, and Burckhardt involuntarily checked his stride.
Melodies are often semi-sung chants, or rely heavily on repeated notes and small step and half-step intervals.
He makes a half-step towards the burly mass of flesh, still shaking with laughter.
He turned around with incredible speed and took a half-step in our direction.
To the ear of the author the pitch varies through an interval somewhat less than a half-step.
The interval between the two tones may therefore be either a half-step or a whole-step.
We have also just seen that in order to represent the trot the marcher at the back had to anticipate by a half-step.
It is necessary to adopt here another method of looking at it, and to regard the preceding as being but a half-step.
The half-step is usually defined as "the smallest usable interval between two tones."
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