(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.
Zigzag
Definition:
(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
(n.) See Boyau.
(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
(2) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
(3) This Z-band is described as simple, since in longitudinal sections it has the appearance of a single zigzag pattern connecting the ends of actin filaments of opposite polarity from adjacent sarcomeres.
(4) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
(5) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(6) Polystyrene microspheres or India ink particles adsorbed to gliding cells were actively displaced in either direction, their movement tracing either a regular zigzag or helical path along the filament surface.
(7) The helices stack in columns, zigzag rather than linear, by means of direct NH...OC head to tail hydrogen bonds.
(8) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(9) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
(10) She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.
(11) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
(12) The detergent phase is organized thus in infinite zigzag chains parallel to the b axis of the P2(1)2(1)2(1) unit cell.
(13) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(14) EACH MUSCLE OF THE SYLLID (ANNELIDA: Polychaeta) proventriculus, the region of the gut posterior to the pharynx, contains a single zigzagging Z band, flanked on each side by a sequence of I-A-H-A-I bands defined by thick (60-90 nm) and thin (5 nm) filaments.
(15) We have developed a new surgical procedure which consists of a plantar zigzag incision, incision of the plantar aponeurosis, and microsurgical neurolysis of the interdigital nerve.
(16) The process of loss of resistance, similarly to that of its development, takes its course according to a zigzag curve, but in the opposite direction.
(17) These occurred before I began to use the zigzag incision which provides excellent exposure of the N.V. bundles ensuring their safety.
(18) Cars zigzag through dense traffic jams, cutting lanes, overtaking from the left or zipping past red lights.
(19) In 18 (82%) of 22 patients, arteriograms showed a hypovascular mass with fine wavy or zigzag (creeping-vine) neovascularity.
(20) The construction of the new type of grid is similar to a conventional one except that the lead strips are arranged in zigzag rather than linear pattern.