Ladder

Definition: Ladder

Ladder

Noun

1. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down.

2. A row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking".

Verb

1. Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging, of stockings; "Her nylons were running".

Date "ladder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Ladder occurs only once, in the account of Jacob's vision (Gen. 28:12). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a ladder being raised for you to ascend to some height, your energetic and nervy qualifications will raise you into prominence in business affairs. To ascend a ladder, means prosperity and unstinted happiness. To fall from one, denotes despondency and unsuccessful transactions to the tradesman, and blasted crops to the farmer. To see a broken ladder, betokens failure in every instance. To descend a ladder, is disappointment in business, and unrequited desires. To escape from captivity, or confinement, by means of a ladder, you will be successful, though many perilous paths may intervene. To grow dizzy as you ascend a ladder, denotes that you will not wear new honors serenely. You are likely to become haughty and domineering in your newly acquired position. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Industry	The collapse of the loop formation in a wale or wales into straight lengths of yarn. Source: European Union. (references)
	Horizontal fine laps or ripples, usually on the walls of the container. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. The arm that carries the tumblers and bucket line of a dredge b. The continuous line of mud buckets, carried on an oblique endless chain, in a bucket ladder excavator or dredger c. The digging boom assembly in a hydraulic dredge or chain-and-bucketsditcher. (references)
Slang in 1811	LADDER. To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Ladder	English	Learning,Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorders Association	Education, Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ladder

Synonyms: ravel (n), run (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ascent	Noun: ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
Insulation, Fire extinction	Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.
Method	Steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron.
Repute	Greatness; Adjective: eminence; height; importance; preeminence, supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder, top of the tree.
Resolution	Devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm; (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer.
Term	Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The bloody glass came out, my bloody boot got stuck and I fell down the bloody ladder. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) No N as in nincompoop, numbskull, nitwit. And L as in ladder! (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) How, with the twenty-foot ladder I keep in my back pocket (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self) Well, I uh, had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder, and nothing bad's happened yet. (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger)
Lyrics	On the boss man's a' ladder (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton) You're just a step on the boss-man's ladder ("9 to 5"; performing artist: Dolly Parton)
Clever	Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets. (references; author: unknown) Some people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Basic Rescue No. 4: The Single Ladder (1954) Love on a Ladder (1934) Hook & Ladder Hokum (1933) Up the Ladder (1925) Hook and Ladder (1924)
Song Titles	Jacob's Ladder (performing artist: Huey Lewis & The News) Up the Ladder and to The Roof (performing artist: The Supremes)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Ladder of Years (reference) Planet Ladder (Volume 4) (reference) Schild's Ladder (reference) Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Jacob's Ladder (reference) Soul Survivors/Jacob's Ladder (reference) Your Career Ladder (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Ladder (reference) White Ladder [EXTRA TRACKS] [ENHANCED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Library Storage Ladder (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Polder 3-Step Featherweight Ladder with Rail (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Tide gauge at Cape Mordvinof 60 -foot ladder constructed from top down Ladder suspended by wires and stakes. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		A signal built in a tree Note ladder built up tree. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Children watching migrating salmon pass by at the Bonneville Dam Fish Ladder. Credit: Fisheries.		Workers fit the ladder into place and secure it into the notched dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Two workers guide the first section of the fish ladder into place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Roy's Dam is in Lagunitas Creek, CA and suffered from a non-functioning fish ladder. Fish were attracted to the current and did not attempt to get up the ladder. Thus, the ladder impaired their spawning migration. This image shows the dam and ladder before restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Stream with fish ladder and irrigation gate. Credit: Gary Wilson.		Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed are building in-stream irrigation water structures like this one that contains gates that automatically raise and lower depending on the depth of streamflow. The structure also contains a fish ladder to enable fish p. Credit: Joel McNee.
	Fish ladder and livestock exclusion are used to improve fish habitat in this stream. Credit: Gary Kramer.		Fish ladder at Lake Creek. Credit: D. Huntington.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Andrew Carnegie	You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
Author Unknown	Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.
St. Augustine	We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Each dray, or better, each ladder, was drawn by four horses tandem
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Each rung of this ladder is composed of two paired chemicals called bases. (references)
		A single abnormal gene, the basic biological unit of heredity, produces HD. Genes are composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a molecule shaped like a spiral ladder. (references)
Business		Despite the fact that Vietnam stands on the lower rungs of the development ladder, it has achieved a remarkably high literacy rate among its large and youthful population. (references)
Economic History	Honduras	Despite significant progress in training and installing more skillful advisers at the top of each party ladder, electoral politics in Honduras remain traditionalist and paternalistic. (references)
Women	Uzbekistan	After marriage many women or girls move into the husband's home, where they occupy the lowest rung on the family social ladder. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder. Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." Giacomo Smith
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ladder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.77% of the time. "Ladder" is used about 1,321 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.77%	1,318	6,022
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.15%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,321	N/A

Expressions using "ladder": Accommodation ladder ♦ aerial ladder ♦ aerial ladder truck ♦ bed ladder ♦ boarding ladder ♦ Chinese ladder brake fern ♦ Companion ladder ♦ escape ladder ♦ extension ladder ♦ fish ladder ♦ folding ladder ♦ Gangway ladder ♦ hook and ladder ♦ hook and ladder truck ♦ hook ladder ♦ jack ladder ♦ jacobs ladder ♦ jacob's ladder ♦ jumping ladder ♦ kick down the ladder ♦ ladder accommodation ♦ Ladder beetle ♦ ladder cage ♦ ladder chain ♦ ladder company ♦ ladder fuels ♦ Ladder handle ♦ ladder lode ♦ ladder of drops ♦ ladder of falls ♦ ladder road ♦ ladder scaffold ♦ Ladder shell ♦ ladder truck ♦ ladder vein ♦ ladder web ♦ monkey ladder ♦ northern Jacob's ladder ♦ parallax ladder ♦ peg ladder ♦ pilot ladder ♦ promotion ladder ♦ put a ladder ♦ rest a ladder against the wall ♦ rigging ladder ♦ rope ladder ♦ rung ladder ♦ salmon ladder ♦ scaling ladder ♦ sea ladder ♦ small ladder ♦ step ladder ♦ step up a ladder ♦ storm ladder ♦ the social ladder ♦ to ladder ♦ top of the ladder. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ladder": ladder-back, ladder-back chair, ladder-backed, ladder-bound, ladder-bridge, ladder-frame, ladder-like, ladder-proof, ladder-stile, ladder-vein, ladder-way.
	Ending with "ladder": step-ladder.
	Containing "ladder": hook-and-ladder company, hook-and-ladder truck.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ladder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		syth i liruar, shkallë shoqërore (group), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), rang (place, position, standing, state), i nxjerr gojët çorapeve, del fija. (various references)

Arabic		‏نسل في جورب, ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏عقدة خيط (stitch). (various references)

Bulgarian		стълба (stairs), бримка (mesh, stitch), подвижна стълба (step ladder). (various references)

Chinese		階梯 , 梯子 (ladder-back), 梯 . (various references)

Czech		žebřík (scaling ladder). (various references)

Danish		stige (gain). (various references)

Dutch		ladder (companion ladder, companionway, hay ladder). (various references)

Esperanto		eskalo, ŝtupetaro. (various references)

Farsi		نردبان ساختن , نردبان بکاربردن , نردبان (Stair, Stairwell). (various references)

Finnish		tikkaat (stepladder), tikapuut (stepladder), silmäpako, pesulauta-aallot (washboard). (various references)

French		échelle (companion ladder, hay ladder). (various references)

Frisian		ljedder. (various references)

German		Leiter (chief, conductor, director, guide, head, leader, manager, master, principal, scale, stepladder, steps, superintendent, superintendents, wall bars), laufmasche (run). (various references)

Greek		σκάλα (a flight of stairs, staircase, stairway). (various references)

Hebrew		אסכלה (gang way, grate, grid, gridiron, grill, roasting jack). (various references)

Hungarian		létra (scale, stair), kötélhágcsó (horse, jacob's ladder, pilot ladder, rope ladder, sea ladder). (various references)

Indonesian		tangga (stair). (various references)

Inuktitut		majuraut. (various references)

Italian		scala (graduation, run, Scala, scale, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, standard). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		階梯 (guide, step, stepping-stone), ラタン家具 (lacquer, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping), 梯子 (stairs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ラダー (rudder), かいてい (bottom of the ocean, court session, guide, reform, revision, step, stepping-stone, trial), はしご (stairs), ていし (abeyance, adherent, apprentice, ban, cessation, deadlock, disciple, exhibition, follower, interruption, low-interest funds, pupil, stairs, stalemate, standstill, stoppage, suspension, teacher's student-helper, young person). (various references)

Korean		사다리. (various references)

Malay		tangga. (various references)

Manx		roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, flying, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), aarey (kidney, reins, scale, shroud). (various references)

Mohawk		kanekòta. (various references)

Norwegian		stige (flow). (various references)

Papago		iskli. (various references)

Papiamen		trapi (staircase, stairs). (various references)

Pig Latin		adderlay.(various references)

Portuguese		escada (stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, stile). (various references)

Romanian		se deşira, scarã (a pair of stairs, escalator, flight, footboard, rank, riser, running board, scale, series, staircase, stairs, step, steps, stirrup), ochi deşiraţi, elindã, bridã (bridle). (various references)

Romany		stùlba. (various references)

Russian		стремянка (rung ladder, scaling ladder, stepladder), спустившаяся петля, спущенная петля на чулке, трап (gang-plank, ramp, trap), лестница;цепная схема, лестница (stair, staircase, stairs, stairway), приставная лестница. (various references)

Scottish		staidhre, fàradh (the shrouds of a ship). (various references)

Sepedi		manamelo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lestvice, merdevine. (various references)

Shona		danho. (various references)

Spanish		escala (scale, stop off, stopover), escalera de mano (stepladder), escalera (caracole, run, sequence, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, step, steps, tailboard). (various references)

Sranan		trapu (snare, staircase, stairs, trap). (various references)

Swedish		stege. (various references)

Thai		บันได, การไต่เต้า. (various references)

Turkish		portatif merdiven (extension ladder, folding ladder, stepladder, steps), merdiven (staircase, stairs, stairway, steps), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), eskitmek (fret, outwear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out), basamak (column, digit, echelon, footstep, grade, order, pitch, place, rung, scale, stair, step, tread, tread board), çorap kaçığı (run). (various references)

Turkmen		merdiwan (stairs, stairway). (various references)

Ukrainian		трап (drawbridge, stairs), обладнувати драбиною, драбина (stepladder). (various references)

Vietnamese		từ bỏ nghề nghiệp đã giúp mình có địa vị. (various references)

Welsh		ysgol (academy, school, schooling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	scalae, scalam, scalas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai enupniasqh kai idou klimax esthrigmenh en th gh hV h kefalh afikneito eiV ton ouranon kai oi aggeloi tou qeou anebainon kai katebainon ep' authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram et cacumen illius tangens caelum angelos quoque Dei ascendentes et descendentes per eam
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he sawy in his slepis a laddre stondynge vpon the erthe, and the heiyt of it towchynge heuene, and aungels forsothe of God steiynge vp and goynge down bi it,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he dreamed: and beholde there stode a ladder apon the erth and the topp of it reached vpp to heaue. And se the angells of God went vp and downe apon it
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12
Cebuano	Ug nagdamgo siya; ug ania karon, may usa ka hagdan nga nagatindog sa yuta, ug ang iyang tumoy miabut sa langit; ug ania karon, ang mga manolonda sa Dios, nga nagasaka ug nagakanaug niini.
Chinese	夢見一個梯子立在地上、梯子的頭頂著天、有　神的使者在梯子上、上去下來。
Croatian	I usne san: ljestve stoje na zemlji, a vrhom do neba dopiru, i anðeli Božji po njima se penju i silaze.
Danish	Da drømte han, og se, på Jorden stod en Stige, hvis Top nåede til Himmelen, og se, Guds Engle steg op og ned ad den;
Dutch	En hij droomde; en ziet, een ladder was gesteld op de aarde, welker opperste aan den hemel raakte; en ziet, de engelen Gods klommen daarbij op en neder.
Finnish	Niin hän näki unta, ja katso, maan päälle oli asetettu tikapuut, joiden pää ulottui taivaaseen, ja katso, Jumalan enkelit kulkivat niitä myöten ylös ja alas.
French	Il eut un songe. Et voici, une échelle était appuyée sur la terre, et son sommet touchait au ciel. Et voici, les anges de Dieu montaient et descendaient par cette échelle.
German	Und ihm träumte; und siehe, eine Leiter stand auf der Erde, die rührte mit der Spitze an den Himmel, und siehe, die Engel Gottes stiegen daran auf und nieder;
Haitian Creole	Li fè yon rèv. Li reve li wè yon nechèl ki te kanpe de pye l' atè ak tèt li pèdi nan syèl la. Zanj Bondye yo t'ap moute desann sou nechèl la.
Hungarian	És álmot láta: Ímé egy lajtorja vala a földön felállítva, melynek teteje az eget éri vala, és ímé az Istennek Angyalai fel- és alájárnak vala azon.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kemudian bermimpilah ia bahwa ia melihat sebuah tangga yang berdiri di bumi dan ujungnya mencapai langit dan malaikat-malaikat turun naik di tangga itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka bermimpilah ia, bahwa sesungguhnya adalah suatu tangga terdiri di atas bumi, dan kepala tangga itupun sampai ke langit; heran, maka beberapa malaekat Allah pun naik turun tangga itu.
Italian	Fece un sogno: una scala poggiava sulla terra, mentre la sua cima raggiungeva il cielo; ed ecco gli angeli di Dio salivano e scendevano su di essa.
Maori	Na moe iho ia, ko tetahi arawhata e tu ana i runga i te whenua, ko tona pito i tutuki ki te rangi: na, ko nga anahera a te Atua e piki ana, e heke ana i runga i taua mea.
Norwegian	Da drømte han og så en stige som var stilt op på jorden, og hvis topp nådde til himmelen, og se, Guds engler steg op og steg ned på den.
Portuguese	Então sonhou: estava posta sobre a terra uma escada, cujo topo chegava ao céu; e eis que os anjos de Deus subiam e desciam por ela;
Rumanian	Wi a visat o scarq rezematq de pqmknt, al cqrei vkrf ajungea pknq la cer. Kngerii lui Dumnezeu se suiau wi se pogorau pe scara aceea.
Swedish	Då hade han en dröm. Han såg en stege vara rest på jorden, och dess övre ände räckte upp till himmelen, och Guds änglar stego upp och ned på den.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ladder": laddered, laddering, ladderlike, ladders. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ladder": bladder, gallbladder, gladder, stepladder. (additional references)
	Words containing "ladder": bladderlike, bladdernut, bladdernuts, bladders, bladderwort, bladderworts, bladdery, gallbladders, stepladders. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ladder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cladder, fladder, jadder, ladar, laddel, laddery, laddre, ladeer, lader, lador, Laoder, leder, Lidden, lider, Lodder, Ludmer, nadder, padder, Pladda, Qaddur. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ladder" (pronounced la"der)
4	l a" d er	bladder.
3	-a" d er	adder, madder, sadder.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: larded, raddle.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-r"
	-1 letter: adder, addle, alder, dared, dedal, dread, laded, lader, readd.
	-2 letters: dale, dare, dead, deal, dear, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, rale, read, real, redd.
	-3 letters: add, ale, are, dad, dal, del, ear, eld, era, lad, lar, lea, led, rad, red.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, al, ar, de, ed, el, er, la, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-r"
	+1 letter: bladder, cradled, dandler, darkled, dartled, dawdler, drawled, gladder, ladders, paddler, raddled, raddles, saddler, waddler.
	+2 letters: bladders, bladdery, dandlers, dawdlers, deadlier, declared, derailed, dihedral, drabbled, draggled, dreadful, heralded, laddered, paddlers, redialed, reloaded, resaddle, saddlers, saddlery, spraddle, straddle, treadled, twaddler, waddlers.
	+3 letters: astraddle, daredevil, dihedrals, dreadfuls, dreadlock, dreamland, garlanded, glandered, guardedly, laddering, laundered, leotarded, overladed, placarded, pollarded, redialled, rehandled, repleaded, resaddled, resaddles, slandered, spraddled, spraddles, straddled, straddler, straddles, twaddlers, underlaid.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ladder	732	library ladder	49
ladder rack	478	swimming pool ladder	46
jacobs ladder	353	boat ladder	46
relay ladder logic	350	ladder bar	45
rope ladder	309	planet ladder	42
ladder logic	211	ladder jacks	41
49 ladder	158	jacobs ladder plant	38
case ladder	145	ladder shelf	37
safety ladder	114	3 ladder warcraft	36
pool ladder	112	folding ladder	36
truck ladder rack	104	agility ladder	35
werner ladder	98	dock ladder	35
extension ladder	98	ladder theory	35
step ladder	86	attic ladder	32
fire escape ladder	85	ship ladder	32
van ladder rack	75	gorilla ladder	31
ladder back chair	70	above ground pool ladder	31
telescoping ladder	53	aluminum ladder	30
louisville ladder	50	ladder accessory	30
little giant ladder	50	ladder stands	29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Fire Escape ladder" by Mari Stobie Commentary: "Fire escape behind an old bakery."	"Swing & Slide Ladder" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Swinging from another angle."
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Ladder

Definition: Ladder

Ladder

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Ladder

Specialty Definition: Ladder

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ladder

Ladder

Synonyms: Ladder

Synonyms within Context: Ladder

Ascent

Insulation, Fire extinction

Method

Repute

Resolution

Term

Crosswords: Ladder

Modern Usage: Ladder

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Ladder

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Ladder

Photos:Ladder

Illustrations:Ladder

Computer Images:Ladder

Photo Album: Ladder

Digital Photo Gallery: Ladder

Familiar Quotations: Ladder

Andrew Carnegie

Author Unknown

St. Augustine

Use in Literature: Ladder

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Non-Fiction Usage: Ladder

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Ladder

Expressions: Ladder

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ladder

Modern Translation: Ladder

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Inuktitut

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Malay

Manx

Mohawk

Norwegian

Papago

Papiamen

Photos:
Ladder

Illustrations:
Ladder

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Ladder