ladder

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from , from.

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Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) 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).
 * 2)  A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
 * 3)  The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
 * 4)   A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a.
 * 5) In the game of, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
 * 1)  The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
 * 2)   A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a.
 * 3) In the game of, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
 * 1)   A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a.
 * 2) In the game of, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
 * 1) In the game of, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
 * 1) In the game of, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.

Usage notes
For stockings touted as resistant to ladders (unraveling), the phrase “ladder resist” is used in the UK. The American equivalent is “run resistant”.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: амардуан
 * Adyghe: дэкӏояпӏэ, лъэой
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: سلوم
 * Aragonese: escalera
 * Armenian:, , փիլաքյան
 * Aromanian: scarã
 * Assamese: জখলা
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܡܲܠܬܵܐ
 * Asturian: escalera
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: баҫҡыс
 * Basque: eskailera
 * Belarusian: ле́свіца, драбі́ны
 * Bengali:
 * Bislama: lada
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Burushaski: ćhiṣ
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: лами
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏠ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 梯
 * Dungan: тиҗя
 * Eastern Min: 樓梯, 梯
 * Gan: 樓梯
 * Hakka: 梯
 * Hokkien:, 梯
 * Jin: 梯子, 樓梯
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Northern Min: 樓階
 * Wu: 胡梯
 * Xiang: 梯子
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: eskalo, ŝtupetaro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stigi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: scjale, sčhale
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κλῖμαξ
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: hagudan
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Leeter
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: лоами
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: andha
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: басқыш, баспалдақ, саты, тепкішек
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 사닥다리
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەیژە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: scāla
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kopėčios
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Luhya: ingasi
 * Lushootseed: səxʷʔigʷəɬ
 * Luxembourgish: Leeder
 * Macedonian: скала
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: sellum
 * Mansaka: agdan
 * Maori: arawhata
 * Mazanderani: سردی, کاتی
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: haazʼéí
 * North Frisian: lääder
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, leider
 * Nynorsk: stige, leider
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: akwaandawaagan
 * Ottoman Turkish: نردبان
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Pijin: lada
 * Plautdietsch: Lada
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਪੌੜੀ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: stgala, scala, stgeala
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: ledder
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ле̏стве, ље̏стве, ле̏ствица, ље̏ствица
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Silesian: drabina
 * Slovak: rebrík
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠌꠃꠇꠣꠝ
 * Tagalog: akyatan,
 * Tajik: нардабон, нардбон, зинапоя
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: į̂ęthuną
 * Tausug: hagdan
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྐས་འཛེག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: merdiwan
 * Ukrainian: драби́на, стрем'я́нка
 * Urdu: سِیڑْھی
 * Uyghur: شوتا
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: heɣezan
 * White Hmong: ntaiv
 * Yámana:
 * Yiddish: לייטער
 * Yup'ik:
 * Zazaki: merwan
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu: isenyukelo


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan: escalafó
 * Dutch:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ле̏ствица, ље̏ствица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: rebríček, hierarchia
 * Spanish: escalafón


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dismaŝigo
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: pobjegla očica, pobegla očica
 * Slovak: očko
 * Spanish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Dutch:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * 1) To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
 * 2)  To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
 * 3)  Of a knitted garment: to develop a  as a result of a broken thread.
 * 4) * 1993,, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1 ; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: , June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9 , page 254:
 * He slid his hand up her skirt and murmured in her ear. / "Robert, I've just got dressed. Stop it." / He laddered her stocking and smudged her lipstick, but she had time to repair the damage before they went out.
 * 1)  To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  Of a knitted garment: to develop a  as a result of a broken thread.
 * 2) * 1993,, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1 ; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: , June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9 , page 254:
 * He slid his hand up her skirt and murmured in her ear. / "Robert, I've just got dressed. Stop it." / He laddered her stocking and smudged her lipstick, but she had time to repair the damage before they went out.
 * 1)  To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Etymology
From, from , , , , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A.
 * 2)  A ladder, a run length of unravelled fabric.