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Ladder

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Noun

1. ladder

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

2. ladder

ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress

Example Sentences:
'he climbed the career ladder'

3. ladder, ravel, run

a row of unravelled stitches

Example Sentences:
'she got a run in her stocking'

Verb

4. ladder, run

come unraveled or undone as if by snagging

Example Sentences:
'Her nylons were running'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Ladder

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noun
1. 
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
2. 
any hierarchy conceived of as having a series of ascending stages, levels, etc
the social ladder
3. 
a. 
anything resembling a ladder
b. 
(as modifier)
ladder stitch
4. Also called: run mainly British
a line of connected stitches that have come undone in knitted material, esp stockings
5.  ladder tournament
verb
6. mainly British
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

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Ladder

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noun
1. 
a. 
a framework consisting of two parallel sidepieces connected by a series of rungs or crosspieces on which a person steps in climbing up or down
b.  Nautical
any staircase or vertical set of steps
2. 
anything by means of which a person climbs or rises
3. 
a rising series of steps, stages, or levels
the ladder of success
4.  Chiefly British
a run as in a stocking
verb transitive, verb intransitive
5.  Chiefly British
to have or cause to have a ladder, or run

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Ladder

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n.
1.
a. An often portable structure consisting of two long sides crossed by parallel rungs, used to climb up and down.
b. Something that resembles this device, especially a run in a stocking.
2.
a. A means of moving higher or lower, as in a hierarchy: used his accomplishments as a ladder to success.
b. A series of ranked stages or levels: high on the executive ladder.
3. A fish ladder.
4. Sports
a. An athletic workout in which one does progressively longer intervals followed by progressively shorter intervals.
b. One of the intervals in such a workout.
intr.v. lad·dered, lad·der·ing, lad·ders
To run, as a stocking does.

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