ladder

ladder englannista suomeksi

1. purkautua

2. tikapuut, tikkaat

3. repeämä

4. portaat

0. Substantiivi

1. tikapuut (monikko) , tikkaat (monikko)

2. silmäpako

2. Verbi

ladder englanniksi

1. 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 steps).

2. (quote-book)

3. (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.

4. A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.

5. (quote-web)

6. The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the ladder.

7. (senseid) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a (l).

8. (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.

9. In the game of (l), a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.

10. (quote-book) 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.

11. To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.

12. (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.

13. To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.

14. (quote-journal)

15. (quote-book) 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.

16. (senseid) Of a knitted garment: to develop a (l) as a result of a broken thread.

(ux)

17. 1993, (w), ''(novel)|Birdsong'', London: (publisher)|Hutchinson, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as ''Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War'', New York, N.Y.: (w), June 1997, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:

He slid his hand up her skirt and murmured in her ear. / "Robert, I've just got dressed. Stop it." (..) / He laddered her stocking and smudged her lipstick, but she had time to repair the damage before they went out.

18. (quote-book) "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.

19. To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.

20. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Peter Smith|title=Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945|page=134

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22. To corruptly coerce a convicted offender to admit to to be taken into consideration|offences to be taken into consideration which they do not actually believe they committed, as a way to artificially increase the rate of solved crimes.

23. A (l).

24. A ladder, a run (gloss).

25. (alt form)