(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been manageable, even beneficial to the economy when people slowly climbed the property ladder.
(2) Western blots of both the native alpha antigen and the cloned gene product demonstrate a regularly laddered pattern of heterogeneous polypeptides.
(3) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(4) Methods employing electroosmotic flow in an untreated silica capillary were found to provide, at best, only partial resolution of the 23 fragments in a 1-kbp DNA ladder.
(5) Britons at the top of the social ladder are by far the most likely to have lied in order to get a job; 41% of social grade A have lied on a job application.
(6) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
(7) Around the same time Clinton also beefed up President Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act – forcing lenders to take a more sympathetic approach to poor borrowers trying to get on the housing ladder.
(8) When this sequence was used to probe Southern blots of EcoRI-digested genomic DNA, a ladder of bands with increments of about 170 bp was observed.
(9) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
(10) On SDS-PAGE analysis, HA showed a single band at 35 kDa under reduced conditions and numerous ladder bands between 35 kDa to more than 300 kDa under nonreduced conditions.
(11) Women, in particular, have difficulty in saving sufficiently for retirement as they often take time off work to raise a family, which can set them back on the career ladder and reduce the amount they can afford to put away for pensions.
(12) "We were extremely limited as we had such a small deposit, and knew the rate of interest we would pay back would reflect this, but considered this to be short term as we were getting on the ladder.
(13) Finally, by using whole cells, it was found that the lower-molecular-weight species of the ladder pattern selectively partitioned into the hydrophobic phase of a Triton X-114 phase partitioning system, and the higher-molecular-weight bands were found in the aqueous phase.
(14) LPS-stimulated murine macrophages indicate that the "ladder" complex reflects differential glycosylation of mature 17 kDa TNF.
(15) Our advice to parents is to take full advantage of the new rules to help secure their children a place on the property ladder,” he says.
(16) Emma Reynolds MP, Labour's shadow housing minister, said: "Any help for first-time buyers struggling to get on the property ladder is welcome.
(17) The pauses observed during translation generate subsets of smaller discrete peptides, visualized in the gels as ladders of variable relative intensities, appearing exclusively and concomitantly with the fibroin.
(18) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
(19) The staff at the Peacocks store in Pontypridd were attempting to be as cheerful as always, laughing and joking as they clambered up a ladder to tape a new sale sign ("biggest ever – 20-70% of everything") to the window.
(20) Meanwhile, millions of other people, unable to get a foot on the property ladder, also have little choice but to rent – sometimes into their 30s or even 40s.
Larder
Definition:
(n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another series on the Edwardian larder will examine products such as Marmite and Bird's custard powder, along with the social changes that created a need for them.
(2) British companies such as Laing O’Rourke, Balfour Beatty, and Cavendish Nuclear are in line for significant contracts, with G4S a bidder for security contracts and Somerset Larder for the catering.
(3) Invaders include spotted pigs and deer that trot through the thick rainforest, marooned on the island after being imported centuries ago as living larders.
(4) This change had previously been shown by Larder and Kemp (Science, 246:1155-1158, 1989) to correlate with partial AZT resistance of virus isolates.
(5) Now let me see," he said, opening the door of the larder, "We have eggs, salmon, sardines … " He snapped his fingers.
(6) The isolate obtained after 32 months of AZT-therapy in addition contained a third mutation at position 67 (Asp----Asn); in contrast to Larder's report, no mutation was found at position 219.
(7) Average price £5 The Edinburgh Larder The Edinburgh Larder Despite its situation just off the tourist-magnet Royal Mile, The Larder remains a peaceful hideaway, with six wooden tables and a few deli shelves full of locally sourced and organic produce.
(8) Because that's the only proper way to attack the global larder: with conviction.
(9) Less successfully was solved the placement of the kitchen, the dining-room and the larder on the upper deck, near the entrance to the engine-room, entailing thus the danger of steam penetration from the latter.
(10) Warnings of early Arctic snaps, backed by much local spotting of bumper berry crops on holly, yew and other "animal larder" trees, have failed to bear fruit as the Christmas season approaches.
(11) But there is an unpalatable truth to face for those of us with a bag of quinoa in the larder.
(12) Quinoa was, in marketing speak, the "miracle grain of the Andes", a healthy, right-on, ethical addition to the meat avoider's larder (no dead animals, just a crop that doesn't feel pain).
(13) But it's also supposedly a place where it's completely normal to keep cardamom, crystallised roses and harissa in your larder.
(14) A. Larder and S. D. Kemp, Science 246:1155-1158, 1989).
(15) Into our teeny house we welcomed four guests for between one- and three-month stays, and they had the run of it, complete with all my precious kitchenware, the larder of spices, the board games, the Sonos music system and the library of books that we couldn’t bring with us.
(16) My favourite: The Larder and The Delta from chef Stephen Jones, a sophisticated take on down-home southern cooking that can feature crispy brussels sprouts with fermented Fresno chilli vinaigrette or hauntingly fine fried chicken skin po’ boy with jalapeño apple slaw in a soft Hawaiian roll.
(17) "This demonstrates that people around the world are appreciating the high quality and delicious products that Scotland's larder has to offer.
(18) A change at residue 215 was found only for the two drug-resistant isolates, which correlated with the results obtained by Larder et al.
(19) Risk was elevated in subjects who, when children, had lived in houses without a larder built specifically for the storage of food.
(20) Only seven were found to maintain temperatures between 5 degrees C and 7 degrees C. Commercial larder type refrigerators are recommended for ward use.