two-step

two-step (plural two-steps)

1. (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)

2. (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.
3. (music) A piece of music for this dance.

• Aztec two-step
• Texas two-step
• 2-step garage

two-step (not comparable)

1. 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], →DOI:

     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.

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