two-step
English
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Noun
[edit]- (dance) A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.
- 1977, Jeff Lynne (lyrics and music), “Turn to Stone”, performed by Electric Light Orchestra:
- The dancing shadows on the wall / (The two-step in the hall)
- (dance) A dance move consisting of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot.
- (music) A piece of music for this dance.
Derived terms
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dance move
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Adjective
[edit]two-step (not comparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, step.
- 2000, A. Hanjalic, G.C. Langelaar, P.M.B. van Roosmalen, Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval, →ISBN, page 14:
- Films corrupted by blotches are often restored in a two-step approach.
- 2014, Pethuru Raj, Ganesh Chandra Deka, editors, Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics, IGI Global, page 105:
- The data lake, in turn, supports a two-step process to analyze the data.
- 2015 September 15, “Pitavastatin Reduces Inflammation in Atherosclerotic Plaques in Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mice with Late Stage Renal Disease”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- A two-step procedure was performed to induce chronic renal disease (CRD): left heminephrectomy at 20 weeks of age followed by right total nephrectomy 1 week later.
Verb
[edit]two-step (third-person singular simple present two-steps, present participle two-stepping, simple past and past participle two-stepped)
- (intransitive) To dance the two-step.
- (figurative) To move around as if dancing a two-step.
- 2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographic[2]
- Pacing off on average 25 kilometers a day, month after month, we two-stepped around roaring superhighways, under bullet-train bridges, through megacities of 22 million that took a week to traverse, as well as past dams, mines, airports, and industrial parks—a buzzing tableau you’d expect from China’s reputation as the “factory of the world.”
- 2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographic[2]