Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A portable ladder with a hinged supporting frame and usually topped with a small platform.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ladder having flat steps, or treads, in place of rungs, and usually provided with an adjustable supporting frame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A portable set of steps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
step ladder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a folding portable ladder hinged at the top
- noun a folding portable ladder hinged at the top
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Examples
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It sits in wait at the top of a steel barrel sometimes as long as a stepladder is high.
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It sits in wait at the top of a steel barrel sometimes as long as a stepladder is high.
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Page 78: "step-ladder" changed to "stepladder" to conform to rest of text. (like a stepladder)
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Ted stands on the furniture and Dad's spattered stepladder, carefully taping the paint-stiffened paper around three walls and close up under the high ceiling.
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He follows me into Matthew's bedroom with the stepladder under his arm.
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Comedian/actor Zach Galifianakis walks onto the set of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" covered with lipstick kisses and declares that he "ran into Snorkie backstage" and "she had a stepladder and kissed me everywhere."
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My mother got off the stepladder, stood back, and admired them.
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It was not the way Krzyzewski wanted Monday night's 61-59 over Butler remembered, he said as he stood on the floor of Indianapolis 'Lucas Oil Stadium while, one by one, his players climbed a stepladder to snip a precious strand or two of net.
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So I put out a stepladder in my (very clean) parking space, and damn the communitarians.
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Yes, the espionage element has been ponderous and often laughable Freddie's wrestling match with the MI6 man reminded me of Mr Bean struggling with a stepladder, I found it hard to care about Suez, and on BBC wages it was never going to look like Mad Men.
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