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Definition of Ladder

Ladder 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. That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence. Related Definitions: And, Are, Ascent, By, Consisting, Cross, Descent, Eminence, Fastened, For, Form, Forming, Frame, Hence, In, Ladder, Metal, Of, One, Or, Portable, Rope, Side, That, To, Two, Use, Which, Wood

Ladder Quotations If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? Henry David Thoreau The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. George Eliot The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. Anthony Trollope I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. Ron White

Ladder Translations ladder in Danish is stige ladder in Dutch is ladder ladder in German is Leiter ladder in Norwegian is leider, stige ladder in Portuguese is escada ladder in Spanish is escala, escalera de mano ladder in Swedish is stege

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