ladder

[Lad·der]

If your ball lands on the roof, grab a ladder and climb up and get it. A ladder has steps you use to reach up high. If you climb the corporate ladder, you’re moving up in the business world.

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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

Noun
steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down

Noun
a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"

Noun
ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress; "he climbed the career ladder"

Verb
come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running"

v. i.
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

v. i.
That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

Ladder

Lad"der , n. [OE. laddre, AS. hlder, hldder; akin to OFries. hladder, OHG.leitara, G. leiter, and from the root of E. lean, v. (). See Lean, v. i., and cf. Climax.] 1. A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire.

2. That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder.

Fish ladder. See under Fish. -- Ladder beetle (Zo'94l.), an American leaf beetle (Chrysomela scalaris). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. -- Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing. -- Ladder shell (Zo'94l.), a spiral marine shell of the genus Scalaria. See Scalaria.

A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

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Usage Examples

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.