Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SIDESTEP

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Definitions of SIDESTEP

1. A step to the side.
2. A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.
3. (intransitive) To step to the side.
4. (transitive, figurative) To avoid or dodge.

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Examples of Using SIDESTEP in a Sentence

• It held argument that one could contemplate the past impartially and sidestep pitfalls through rigour.
• The characters can sidestep to either side by double-tapping down to move to the foreground or tapping down then up to the background.
• In order to sidestep the vexing problem of distinguishing dialect from language, some linguists have been using the term communalect – defined as "a neutral term for any speech tradition tied to a specific community".
• Generally speaking, presidents, congresses and courts have historically tended to sidestep open confrontations through compromise and mutual deference because of previous practice and precedents regarding the exercise of executive privilege.
• Released on 3 September 2007, Beyond the Neighbourhood was a self-produced collection of low-key songs, viewed as a disappointment by some, and an interesting sidestep by others.
• Distinct additions included attack reversals for some characters, back throws, chain-throws and a sidestep unique to two characters, Kazuya Mishima and Heihachi Mishima.
• Three-dimensional movement is insignificant in previous Tekken games (aside from some characters having unique sidesteps and dodging maneuvers), but Tekken 3 adds emphasis on the third axis by allowing characters to sidestep in or out of the background.
• In 2000, the Talking Battle Commander mold was repainted (sans talking backpack) in an even darker blue, with silver highlights, with a new character "Chameleon" (a Baroness doppelganger created to sidestep copyright problems).
• Thus, they manage to sidestep the ghettoes of prog for something altogether catchier and more satisfying but never let matters become precious or cute.
• Most of the material was written in Madrid, where Dan Bejar went to sidestep a tour with The New Pornographers, following the critical success of that supergroups's first album.
• In ultimogeniture elder siblings, especially the first born of the relevant gender, are heavily incentivized and more empowered to sidestep the tradition, especially if primogeniture inheritance is a culturally familiar concept.
• Because Monge had refused a smaller contract offer from the Phillies when he was a free agent before the season, Marvin Miller of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) criticized the trade as an example of collusive efforts between baseball owners to sidestep the rules surrounding free agency.
• The BAS article backhandedly compliments NWSS on its inclusion of features such as "elaborate diagrams for building shelter; testing for radiation with homemade meters; providing for ventilation; filtration of water and sanitation," but goes on to say that the basic flaw with NWSS and the other books reviewed is that they deal only with short-term survival, and sidestep putting heavy thought into the long-term ramifications of nuclear conflict for the continued survival of both their assiduous readers and the balance of the human race.
• Above all, the various character clashes in the film (Perry-Connor, Connor-Schluetter, Schluetter-Neuchl) are quietly, credibly and observantly built up to sidestep their melodramatic possibilities, with excellent performances all round.
• The book's presentation is idiosyncratic, as it is both unabashedly a tie-in edition, yet seems to cautiously sidestep labeling itself an adaptation of the script per se (though within Shulman's sensitively internalized retelling, it is quite faithful to the film's dialogue and structure).
• The preconstructed theme decks are: "Life Drain" (White/Black), "Sidestep" (Blue/Red), "Death March" (Black/Green), "Battle Blitz" (Red/White), and "Superabundance" (Green/Blue).
• How, then, is a clinician to decide whom to offer this treatment? Examples of common approaches that guide triage include "saving the most lives", calling for care to be provided to "the sickest first" or alternatively a "first come, first served" approach may attempt to sidestep the difficult decision of triage.
• This enables users to sidestep spectral pollution (spurious modes), verify Koopman mode decompositions and learned dictionaries, and compute continuous spectra.
• He can shift like a flash either way, sidestep onrushing tacklers with the best and uses the straight arm with telling effect.
• " Dele Fadele from NME came to the conclusion that the song is "a good thing, a way to sidestep reality and just luxuriate in sound.

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