ladder
ladder
englanti(yksiköllinen) tikapuut, tikkaat
silmäpako
Synonyymisanakirja
ladder
niveltikkaat, konetikapuut, Jaakopin portaat, tikapuut, tikkaat, portaat.
Rimmaavat sanat
ladder rimmaa näiden kanssa:
cheerleader, outsider...
Englannin sanakirja
ladder (englanti > suomi)
ladder englanniksi
A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as stepNoun steps).
(quote-book)
(quote-book)|year=2014|isbn=978-0-7387-4077-5|passage=And why wouldn't I just turn around, not take a chance on the bad luck of walking under a ladder? Because, beyond it, there was Pluckie. My little dog was leashed to a bush, lunging and barking. If the leash came loose, her lunge could send her tumbling down the mountainside.
puhekieltä A series of stageNoun stages by which one progressVerb progresses to a better position.
(quote-web)|date=8 January 2011|passage=Newcastle had won both their previous fixtures in 2011 but were terribly disappointing at Broadhall Way against opponents 73 places below them in the footballing ladder.
puhekieltä The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
(senseid) puhekieltä A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a (l).
(quote-book) (..) Darning Stockings.—To show a hole darned, and a thin place "run" (or strengthened), and a ladder properly taken up in a coarse worsted stocking.
In the game of (l), a sequence of moveNoun moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
(quote-book)|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8048-3475-9|passage=The most dramatic introduction to the idea of how stones relate to each other over distance is how players react when a ladder (shicho, "she-ko"(si) in Japanese) (m) develops. (..) Ouch! This is finding out about the ladder, which is called that because of the steplike shape that the defending stones are forced into.
To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
(quote-book)/(w)|year=1984|isbn=978-0-670-69199-9|passage=And employing the innate gift for mimicry he'd always had – a gift which had made his father roar with laughter even when he was tired and feeling down – Jack 'did' Morgan Sloat. Age fell into his face as he laddered his brow the way Uncle Morgan's brow laddered into lines when he was pissed off about something.
(quote-book)|year=1999|page=15|isbn=978-0-674-09745-2|passage=By means of repeated bifurcations, w:Carl Linnaeus|Carl Linnaeus provided a five-tier botanic hierarchy. He laddered the plant kingdom downward from classes to orders, genera, species, and varieties.
puhekieltä To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
(quote-journal)
(quote-book)|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4000-6489-2|passage=He was barefoot, but he was wearing his climbing harness and was attached to Telperion with a rope. He unclipped the rope, detaching himself from the tree. He stepped out onto a branch and free-climbed up to Cordaro's hammock. (..) He laddered his way barefoot to the very top of Telperion. He didn't use a rope, and he felt that any hominid with any dexterity could have pulled off the climb.
(senseid) Of a knitted garment: to develop a (l) as a result of a broken thread.
(ux)
1993, (w), w:Birdsong (novel)|Birdsong, London: w:Hutchinson (publisher)|Hutchinson, w:International Standard Book Number|ISBN Special:BookSources/9780091773731 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: (w), June 1997, w:International Standard Book Number|ISBN Special:BookSources/9780679776819 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:
(quote-book)|year=1994|pages=35–36|isbn=978-0-7022-2699-1|passage="Oh, I see," murmured Maddie. She didn't see, though. Not really. Why cry over a ladder in your tights? (..) "They must have been defective," she said. / "No, they weren't! It's me who's defective! I'm too fat to wear Mediums any more. That's why they ladder. They ladder the moment I put them on, because my legs are too fat. Everything is too fat!" Joanna shot her mother a baleful glance that brimmed with threat.
(l)