(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.
Madder
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The less than full-throated defence of the cabinet member follows similar comments by White House chief of staff Dennis McDonough on Sunday, who said the president was “madder than hell” about the scandal.
(2) Twenty compounds were isolated from the roots of Rubia tinctorum which are used as a commercial source of madder color.
(3) Tom Madders, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, said: "The Department for Work and Pensions is certainly guilty of helping to drive this media narrative around benefits, portraying those who receive benefits as workshy scroungers or abusing a system that's really easy to cheat."
(4) But you put them in a madness asylum they get madder and madder and completely lose their mind, whereas if you work with them, they get better."
(5) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
(6) This "scrounger rhetoric" was already having an impact on people's lives, Madders said, citing a woman who rang the charity to say a neighbour who formerly gave lifts to her autistic child had stopped doing so following press articles about disabled people receiving free cars under a government scheme .
(7) President Barack Obama is "madder than hell" about the scandal enveloping the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
(8) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
(9) This will have an impact on cancer detection, as well as causing problems for the management of patients who may have benign diseases, but whose symptoms are significantly impacting on their quality of life and employment.” Labour’s Justin Madders, a shadow health minister and Cheshire MP, said: These plans are a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS, that access to care should be available to everyone, and also that long waits shouldn’t happen.
(10) On quantitative analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography, the contents of ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside in commercial madder color were determined 0.07% and 0.04%, respectively.
(11) The president is madder than hell,” McDonough told CBS's Face the Nation.
(12) The Labour MP Justin Madders, chair of the APPG, said social mobility was “shamefully low” at the top of UK society.
(13) We also investigated lucidinethylether, which is formed from lucidin by extraction of madder roots with boiling ethanol.
(14) Labour MP Justin Madders, a shadow health minister, recently outlined his concern about the lack of public attention so far on “Jeremy Hunt’s opaque and secretive reorganisation of the NHS, which is being drawn up behind closed doors at this very moment through sustainability and transformation plans”.
(15) Why do some men – Andrew Neil joked about being "madder than a box of Nadine Dorrieses" – feel able to laugh at her in so unbridled a fashion?
(16) "I don't think they're any madder than Jeremy Paxman or John Humphrys!"
(17) Camp is made in a dune's hollow and we go even madder.
(18) The differential diagnosis of the condition is discussed: especially the hydrolethalus syndrome, and the Young and Madders' syndrome reported in 1987.
(19) Obama – whom a spokesman last week described as “madder than hell” about the VA scandal – was delivering his weekly address on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend.
(20) Two main coloring constituents in the commercial madder color were isolated and identified as ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside.