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ladder

['lædə] брит. / амер.

сущ.
1. 1. лестница (приставная, верёвочная)
  2. мор. трап
2. лестница (иерархическая); шкала
3. спустившаяся петля (на чулке)
гл.
1. влезать, взбираться по лестнице
2. спускаться (о петле на чулке)

Physics (En-Ru)

ladder

лестница

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The loft was right under the roof and was reached by a long, very steep and narrow wooden ladder.
Подыматься приходилось чуть не под крышу по деревянной, длинной, очень узенькой и ужасно крутой лестнице.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The possessedДостоевский, Фёдор / Бесы
Бесы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1989
The possessed
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Davie winced as he made it down the last few rungs, then leaned weakly against the ladder for support once he reached the bottom. He turned slowly to the Gaffer.
Сделав еще несколько шагов, Дэйви снова прислонился к стене и медленно повернулся к старику
De Lint, Charles / The Little CountryДе Линт, Чарльз / Маленькая страна
Маленькая страна
Де Линт, Чарльз
The Little Country
De Lint, Charles
© 1991 by Charles de Lint

She climbed him like a ladder, ducking into the shaft and pulling up her feet to kick in with her crampons.
Дженни вскарабкалась по нему, как по лестнице, и нырнула в узкое отверстие.
Rollins, James / Ice HuntРоллинс, Джеймс / Айсберг
Айсберг
Роллинс, Джеймс
© 2003 by Jim Czajkowski
© В. Шуверов, перевод, 2009
© ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", издание на русском языке, 2009
Ice Hunt
Rollins, James
© 2003 by Jim Czajkowski

Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked slender it proved strong enough to bear many men.
С дерева опустили веревочную лестницу. Сделанная из очень тонкого шпагата, она, как вскоре убедились Хранители, была вместе с тем необычайно прочной.
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel / The Fellowship of the RingТолкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл / Братство Кольца
Братство Кольца
Толкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл
© Издательство "Радуга", 1988
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
© 1954, 1965, 1966 by J.R.R. Tolkien
© renewed 1982 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H.R. Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien
© renewed 1993, 1994 by Christopher R.Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien
© 2003 J. R. R. Tolkien

Someone would surely have called the fire and rescue squads, but he wasn’t going to wait around for a ladder.
Кто-нибудь наверняка вызовет пожарных и спасателей, но Коттон не собирался дожидаться, когда к окну подадут лестницу.
Berry, Steve / The Alexandria LinkБерри, Стив / Александрийское звено
Александрийское звено
Берри, Стив
© 2007 by Steve Berry
© А. Новиков, перевод с английского, 2009
© ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", издание на русском языке, 2009
The Alexandria Link
Berry, Steve
© 2007 by Steve Berry

Yet I wish it had been off another kind of ladder.
Но я хотел бы, чтобы он соскользнул с лестницы, предназначенной для другой цели.
Haggard, Henry Rider / The Lady of BlossholmeХаггард, Генри Райдер / Хозяйка Блосхолма
Хозяйка Блосхолма
Хаггард, Генри Райдер
© Издательство "Детгиз", 1959
The Lady of Blossholme
Haggard, Henry Rider
© BiblioBazaar, LLC

At this point the alert reader can without the author's help add that the thieves were on the upper level inside the hold and closer to the ship's ladder—in other words, to light and air.
Усвойчивый читатель теперь уже и без автора может добавить: при этом блатные занимают верхний ярус и ближе к проему - к воздуху, к свету.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr / The Gulag ArchipelagoСолженицын, Александр / Архипелаг Гулаг
Архипелаг Гулаг
Солженицын, Александр
© Русский Общественный Фонд Александра Солженицына, 2009
The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
© 1973 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
© 1973, 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
© 1985 by The Russian Social Fund

Madame Virginsky was a midwife by profession—and by that very fact was on the lowest rung of the social ladder, lower even than the priest's wife in spite of her husband's rank as an officer.
Сама же m-me Виргинская, занимавшаяся повивальною профессией, уже тем одним стояла ниже всех на общественной лестнице; даже ниже попадьи, несмотря на офицерский чин мужа.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The possessedДостоевский, Фёдор / Бесы
Бесы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1989
The possessed
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I wish you health and promotions up the career ladder."
Желаю вам здоровья и продвижения по карьерной лестнице.
© 2010 Weatherford International Ltd
http://www.weatherford.ru/ 12/13/2011

You're hiring on behalf of the whole corporate ladder above you.
Вы нанимаете от имени и по поручению целой корпоративной лестницы.
DeMarco, Tom,Lister, Timothy / Peopleware. Productive Projects and TeamsДемарко, Том,Листер, Тимоти / Человеческий фактор: успешные проекты и команды
Человеческий фактор: успешные проекты и команды
Демарко, Том,Листер, Тимоти
© Издательство Символ-Плюс, 2005
Peopleware. Productive Projects and Teams
DeMarco, Tom,Lister, Timothy
© 1999, 1987 by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister.

It was a rolled-up ladder of silk rope, very fine but quite strong.
Это была свернутая лестница из шелкового шнура, очень тонкого, но достаточно прочного.
Christie, Agatha / Murder on the LinksКристи, Агата / Убийство на поле для гольфа
Убийство на поле для гольфа
Кристи, Агата
© Издательство "Физкультура и спорт", 1982
Murder on the Links
Christie, Agatha
© 1923 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
© renewed 1950 by Agatha Christie Mallowan

Waits pushed the detective off the edge and Olivas came crashing down the ladder onto Bosch.
Уэйтс спихнул детектива с лестницы, и Оливас с грохотом рухнул вниз, прямо на Босха.
Connelly, Michael / Echo ParkКоннелли, Майкл / Эхо-парк
Эхо-парк
Коннелли, Майкл
© Hieronymus, Inc., 2006
© Перевод Н.А. Кудашевой, 2008
© ООО Издательство "АСТ МОСКВА", 2009
Echo Park
Connelly, Michael
© 2006 by Hieronymus, Inc.

The hooded head of a cloaked figure emerged at the top of the ladder.
Но вот в люке появилась голова в капюшоне.
Feather, Jane / VelvetФэйзер, Джейн / Бархат
Бархат
Фэйзер, Джейн
Velvet
Feather, Jane
© 1994 by Jane Feather

The ladder came through almost as soon as the circle of roofing hit the floor.
Почти мгновенно появилась веревочная лестница.
Clarke, Arthur Charles / A Fall of MoondustКларк, Артур Чарльз / Лунная пыль
Лунная пыль
Кларк, Артур Чарльз
A Fall of Moondust
Clarke, Arthur Charles

I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
Я стал на колени, и они приставили к моему туловищу лестницу; по этой лестнице один из них взобрался до моей шеи и опустил отвес от воротника до полу, что и составило длину моего кафтана; рукава и талию я смерил сам.
Swift, Jonathan / Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the worldСвифт, Джонатан / Путешествия Гулливера
Путешествия Гулливера
Свифт, Джонатан
© Издательство "Правда", 1987
Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world
Swift, Jonathan

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'lædəNounлестницаExamples

accommodation ladder — приставная лестница
to lean a ladder (against a wall) — приставлять лестницу (к стене)
to put up a ladder — ставить, приставлять лестницу
to steady a ladder — устанавливать лестницу
to climb / go up / mount a ladder — взбираться, всходить, подниматься по лестнице
to come down / descend a ladder — спускаться по лестнице

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1.
ladder - лестница; трап; стремянка; приставная лестница; спустившаяся/спущенная петля (на чулке)
to ladder - спускаться
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лестница
translation added by Евгений Жабаровский
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Collocations

accommodation ladder

забортный трап

aerial ladder

длинная выдвижная лестница

big ladder

длинная цепная схема

big ladder

цепная схема с большим количеством звеньев

bucket-ladder dredger

ковшовая землечерпалка

bucket-ladder excavator

многоковшовый экскаватор

builder's ladder

деревянная приставная лестница

career ladder

карьерная лестница

cat ladder

чердачная лестница

climb the ladder

делать карьеру

combination ladder

складная лестница

companion ladder

лестница, соединяющая палубы

companion ladder

сходной трап

cylindrical ladder

цилиндричная лестница

digging ladder

рама землечерпалки

Word forms

ladder

noun

	Singular	Plural
Common case	ladder	ladders
Possessive case	ladder's	ladders'

ladder

verb

Basic forms
Past	laddered
Imperative	ladder
Present Participle (Participle I)	laddering
Past Participle (Participle II)	laddered

Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I ladder	we ladder
you ladder	you ladder
he/she/it ladders	they ladder

Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am laddering	we are laddering
you are laddering	you are laddering
he/she/it is laddering	they are laddering

Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have laddered	we have laddered
you have laddered	you have laddered
he/she/it has laddered	they have laddered

Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been laddering	we have been laddering
you have been laddering	you have been laddering
he/she/it has been laddering	they have been laddering

Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I laddered	we laddered
you laddered	you laddered
he/she/it laddered	they laddered

Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was laddering	we were laddering
you were laddering	you were laddering
he/she/it was laddering	they were laddering

Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had laddered	we had laddered
you had laddered	you had laddered
he/she/it had laddered	they had laddered

Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been laddering	we had been laddering
you had been laddering	you had been laddering
he/she/it had been laddering	they had been laddering

Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will ladder	we shall/will ladder
you will ladder	you will ladder
he/she/it will ladder	they will ladder

Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be laddering	we shall/will be laddering
you will be laddering	you will be laddering
he/she/it will be laddering	they will be laddering

Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have laddered	we shall/will have laddered
you will have laddered	you will have laddered
he/she/it will have laddered	they will have laddered

Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been laddering	we shall/will have been laddering
you will have been laddering	you will have been laddering
he/she/it will have been laddering	they will have been laddering

Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would ladder	we should/would ladder
you would ladder	you would ladder
he/she/it would ladder	they would ladder

Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be laddering	we should/would be laddering
you would be laddering	you would be laddering
he/she/it would be laddering	they would be laddering

Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have laddered	we should/would have laddered
you would have laddered	you would have laddered
he/she/it would have laddered	they would have laddered

Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been laddering	we should/would have been laddering
you would have been laddering	you would have been laddering
he/she/it would have been laddering	they would have been laddering

Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am laddered	we are laddered
you are laddered	you are laddered
he/she/it is laddered	they are laddered

Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being laddered	we are being laddered
you are being laddered	you are being laddered
he/she/it is being laddered	they are being laddered

Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been laddered	we have been laddered
you have been laddered	you have been laddered
he/she/it has been laddered	they have been laddered

Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was laddered	we were laddered
you were laddered	you were laddered
he/she/it was laddered	they were laddered

Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being laddered	we were being laddered
you were being laddered	you were being laddered
he/she/it was being laddered	they were being laddered

Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been laddered	we had been laddered
you had been laddered	you had been laddered
he/she/it had been laddered	they had been laddered

Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be laddered	we shall/will be laddered
you will be laddered	you will be laddered
he/she/it will be laddered	they will be laddered

Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been laddered	we shall/will have been laddered
you will have been laddered	you will have been laddered
he/she/it will have been laddered	they will have been laddered

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Physics (En-Ru)

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