单词 | ladder-like |
释义 | > as lemmasladder-like ladder-like adj. resembling a ladder, gradational; also adv. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [adjective] > resembling ladder laddery1852 ladder-like1859 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 21 A ladder-like flight of steps. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 303 Parallel bundles,..connected in a ladder-like manner by transverse branches. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 565 The great parallel terraces over which, ladderlike, the neighbouring Congo has cut its bed. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. x. 181 A gradual ladder-like rise [of temperature]. < as lemmas |
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