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ladder
[ lad-er ]
noun
- a structure of wood, metal, or rope, commonly consisting of two sidepieces between which a series of bars or rungs are set at suitable distances, forming a means of climbing up or down.
- something resembling this.
- a means of rising, as to eminence:
the ladder of success.
- a graded series of stages or levels in status; a hierarchical order of position or rank:
high on the political ladder.
- Nautical. companionway ( def 1 ).
- Chiefly British. a run in a stocking.
verb (used with object)
- to climb or mount by means of a ladder:
to ladder a wall.
- to furnish with a ladder:
to ladder a water tower.
- Chiefly British. to cause a run in (a stocking).
verb (used without object)
- Chiefly British. to get a run, as in a stocking.
- to gain in popularity or importance:
He laddered to the top of his profession.
ladder
/ 藞濒忙诲蓹 /
noun
- a portable framework of wood, metal, rope, etc, in the form of two long parallel members connected by several parallel rungs or steps fixed to them at right angles, for climbing up or down
- any hierarchy conceived of as having a series of ascending stages, levels, etc
the social ladder
- anything resembling a ladder
- ( as modifier )
ladder stitch
- Also calledrun a line of connected stitches that have come undone in knitted material, esp stockings
verb
- to cause a line of interconnected stitches in (stockings, etc) to undo, as by snagging, or (of a stocking) to come undone in this way
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 濒补诲路诲别谤路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
- 濒补诲路诲别谤路濒颈办别 濒补诲路诲别谤路测 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of ladder1
Idioms and Phrases
see bottom of the ladder .Example Sentences
Hydraulic ladders were used by firefighters to rescue those stranded on the ledges, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
Guthrie 鈥渁lways stood up for the poor, the downtrodden, for those on the lowest rungs of the ladder. He expressed it on his guitar, which said 鈥楾his machine kills fascists.鈥欌
Medics from the nearby surgery ran to Harry's aid, firefighters used a ladder as a makeshift stretcher to take him to a nearby shop from where the Great North Air Ambulance took him to hospital.
Video footage, seen by BBC News NI, appears to show four men with a ladder erecting flags in the area.
Johnson said the job changes were necessary to climb the ladder in the real estate industry.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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