English words for 'Up a ladder.'
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adv
verb
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- measure by or as if by a scale
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
noun
noun
- A rung of a ladder.
- one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
- One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
- (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
- A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
- support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
verb
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
noun
- ascent by or as if by a ladder
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The act of one who scales or climbs.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
verb
noun
adj
- (now rare outside dialects) Tall; big; stout.
- (now rare outside dialects, of cloth, land, etc.) Inflexible, stiff.
- (now rare outside dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
- (now rare outside dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
- (now rare outside dialects) Bold; audacious.
- (now rare outside dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
adv
verb
noun
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- (slang) The penis.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- The stem or main axis of a plant.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- A haughty style of walking.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- the act of following prey stealthily
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a stiff or threatening gait
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
verb
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
- walk stiffly
- go through (an area) in search of prey
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
noun
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
adj
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- A ladder leading to heaven.
- A ray of sunlight descending from between clouds.
- (figurative) A way to be worthy of heaven; virtue or virtuous living.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
- (figurative) A tall, craggy, cliff.
- (figurative) A chain of reasoning or actions that progresses to something sublime.
noun
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- (social media, Internet) A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
- A continuous series of like events.
- a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a distinctive characteristic
- an unbroken series of events
verb
- (intransitive) To run naked in public.
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- (transitive) To create streaks upon.
- (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
- (intransitive) To run quickly.
- mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- run naked in a public place
- move quickly in a straight line
noun
verb
- (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
- To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
- Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
- (UK, naval slang) To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
- (UK, law enforcement, of a police officer) To corruptly coerce a convicted offender to admit to 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.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
noun
- 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).
- (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
- (go) A sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
- (Australia, New Zealand, sports) A league table.
- (chiefly British) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
- (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
- steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
- ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
- a row of unravelled stitches
adv
adj
noun
noun
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
verb
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
noun
- (climbing) A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
- (construction) A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.
- (equestrianism) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
- (anatomy) A stapes.
- (by extension) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.
- (nautical) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go
- the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
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noun
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verb
noun
verb
noun
- (nautical) A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.
- (biblical) A ladder leading to heaven.
- (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps
- A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.
- (mathematics) A noncompact surface resembling a ladder made of handlebodies.
- (UK) A serving of short ribs.
- A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.
- A pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
- pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers
noun
- (carpentry) The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.
- (journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- (fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- (sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
- (birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- Someone who strings someone along.
- a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
- a member of a squad on a team
- brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
- a worker who strings
noun
- A ladder consisting of loops of nylon tape connected together which are used as footholds.
- (business) A group of dealers who buy and sell a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) among themselves in order to artificially increase its price before it is sold to a party outside the group.
- A garland to be worn on the head, made (usually as a pastime) by sewing or otherwise linking the stems of the flowers of daisies (Bellis perennis) into a ring.
- A large nylon loop sewn together at intervals along the midlength, used to decelerate a falling free climber.
- (also computing) A bus wiring scheme in which a series of devices are connected in sequence: A to B, B to C, C to D, etc.
- A series of complicated personal relationships in which, over time, people have had different partners who have themselves had other partners within the same group of people.
- (backpacking) A small strip of webbing with multiple loops, which allows a backpacker to secure several objects to the exterior of a backpack.
- (figurative) A sequence of events where each one leads to the next.
- (also electrical engineering) Several electrical or electronic devices linked in series by their data or power connections, or both.
- (slang) A group-sex formation involving multiple partners, with the participants lying in a circle, each one performing oral sex on another person.
- (music) A series of samplers, sequencers, synthesizers, or other MIDI devices used in electronic music connected to one another in a chain through MIDI cables.
- (by extension) A thing resembling a daisy chain (noun sense 1) in having several elements connected together, often in a circle.
- flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems; worn by students on class day at some schools
- (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences
verb
noun
- (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- (grammar) Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- (education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
- (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- (geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- (algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- (algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a measure for arcs and angles
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
- an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
noun
noun
- A rung of a ladder.
- one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
- One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
- (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
- A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
- support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
verb
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
noun
- ascent by or as if by a ladder
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The act of one who scales or climbs.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
verb
noun
adj
- (now rare outside dialects) Tall; big; stout.
- (now rare outside dialects, of cloth, land, etc.) Inflexible, stiff.
- (now rare outside dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
- (now rare outside dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
- (now rare outside dialects) Bold; audacious.
- (now rare outside dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
adv
verb
noun
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- (slang) The penis.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- The stem or main axis of a plant.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- A haughty style of walking.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- the act of following prey stealthily
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a stiff or threatening gait
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
verb
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
- walk stiffly
- go through (an area) in search of prey
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
noun
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
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- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- A ladder leading to heaven.
- A ray of sunlight descending from between clouds.
- (figurative) A way to be worthy of heaven; virtue or virtuous living.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
- (figurative) A tall, craggy, cliff.
- (figurative) A chain of reasoning or actions that progresses to something sublime.
noun
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- (social media, Internet) A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
- A continuous series of like events.
- a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a distinctive characteristic
- an unbroken series of events
verb
- (intransitive) To run naked in public.
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- (transitive) To create streaks upon.
- (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
- (intransitive) To run quickly.
- mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- run naked in a public place
- move quickly in a straight line
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- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
verb
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
noun
- (climbing) A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
- (construction) A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.
- (equestrianism) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
- (anatomy) A stapes.
- (by extension) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.
- (nautical) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go
- the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
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- (nautical) A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.
- (biblical) A ladder leading to heaven.
- (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps
- A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.
- (mathematics) A noncompact surface resembling a ladder made of handlebodies.
- (UK) A serving of short ribs.
- A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.
- A pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
- pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers
noun
- (carpentry) The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.
- (journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- (fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- (sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
- (birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- Someone who strings someone along.
- a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
- a member of a squad on a team
- brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
- a worker who strings
noun
- A ladder consisting of loops of nylon tape connected together which are used as footholds.
- (business) A group of dealers who buy and sell a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) among themselves in order to artificially increase its price before it is sold to a party outside the group.
- A garland to be worn on the head, made (usually as a pastime) by sewing or otherwise linking the stems of the flowers of daisies (Bellis perennis) into a ring.
- A large nylon loop sewn together at intervals along the midlength, used to decelerate a falling free climber.
- (also computing) A bus wiring scheme in which a series of devices are connected in sequence: A to B, B to C, C to D, etc.
- A series of complicated personal relationships in which, over time, people have had different partners who have themselves had other partners within the same group of people.
- (backpacking) A small strip of webbing with multiple loops, which allows a backpacker to secure several objects to the exterior of a backpack.
- (figurative) A sequence of events where each one leads to the next.
- (also electrical engineering) Several electrical or electronic devices linked in series by their data or power connections, or both.
- (slang) A group-sex formation involving multiple partners, with the participants lying in a circle, each one performing oral sex on another person.
- (music) A series of samplers, sequencers, synthesizers, or other MIDI devices used in electronic music connected to one another in a chain through MIDI cables.
- (by extension) A thing resembling a daisy chain (noun sense 1) in having several elements connected together, often in a circle.
- flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems; worn by students on class day at some schools
- (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences
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- (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- (grammar) Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- (education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
- (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- (geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- (algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- (algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a measure for arcs and angles
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
- an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
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- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- measure by or as if by a scale
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
verb
- (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
- To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
- Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
- (UK, naval slang) To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
- (UK, law enforcement, of a police officer) To corruptly coerce a convicted offender to admit to 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.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
noun
- 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).
- (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
- (go) A sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
- (Australia, New Zealand, sports) A league table.
- (chiefly British) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
- (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
- steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
- ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
- a row of unravelled stitches