ladderlike

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adjective

Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).

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Meanings

adjectiveladderlike (comparative more ladderlike, superlative most ladderlike)

comparative more ladderlike · superlative most ladderlike

  1. Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).

    The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis...

    1989, Elizabeth F Neufeld, Victor Ginsburg, Complex Carbohydrates
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    How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.

    1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244

Origin

From ladder + -like.

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APA

ladderlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ladderlike

MLA

“ladderlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ladderlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ladderlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ladderlike.

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