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stepper(noun) A professional dancer. Synonyms: hooferUsage: My petite friend Anna has made a name for herself as a gifted stepper, proving that you need not be tall and long-limbed to succeed as a dancer.
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stepper
Definition: (noun) A professional dancer.
Synonyms: hoofer
Usage: My petite friend Anna has made a name for herself as a gifted stepper, proving that you need not be tall and long-limbed to succeed as a dancer.
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stepper
Definition: (noun) A professional dancer.
Synonyms: hoofer
Usage: My petite friend Anna has made a name for herself as a gifted stepper, proving that you need not be tall and long-limbed to succeed as a dancer.
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After about 40 seconds the stepper just gave way on me sending me straight to the floor. It was one of the four types of known pumps, namely, stepper motor.
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Stepper:
NOUN:
A person or animal that steps, esp a horse or a dancer
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
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Definition: (noun) A professional dancer.
Synonyms: hoofer
Usage: My petite friend Anna has made a name for herself as a gifted stepper, proving that you need not be tall and long-limbed to succeed as a dancer.
I've always understood this word to mean a professional dancer.
But when you look it up in TFD, you don't get that definition as anything but an afterthought. How does that work?
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TFD has thoroughly outdated definitions. It used to be a dancer or a horse. Nowadays it is a cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQITX5wH7NIActually it is a stepper motor like those used in a floppy drive to position the head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_diskQuote:A spindle motor in the drive rotates the magnetic medium at a certain speed, while a stepper motor-operated mechanism moves the magnetic read/write heads radially along the surface of the disk.
There is a yet different stepper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StepperIn this technological day and age nobody cares about dancers. -
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