Laddering

Quick meaning: Laddering is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of ladder.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of ladder.

More Meanings

1. (agriculture, countable) A process of soil compaction that serves to break up clods and level a field.
2. (uncountable) An investment strategy where the investment is spread over multiple bonds or term deposits with rolling maturity dates.
3. (uncountable) An irregular fracture pattern that arises from uneven drying.
4. (uncountable) An interview technique developed in the 1960s in which the interviewer systematically drills down for greater detail at each step.
5. (uncountable) A regular pattern of oligonucleotide sizes on electrophoretic gels, resulting from the fragmentation of DNA strands during cell death.

Example Sentences

ploughings and ladderings

For example, tobacco cell cultures grown at 5oC, resulted in a loss of viability relative to control cells and exhibited DNA laddering (Koukalova et al., 1997).

With upward laddering like this, you're going from the bottom of the hierarchy up towards the top, and what you'll typically find is that as you go up the number of branches decreases, so you'll keep hitting the same responses and the same high level goals and values eventually, more or less regardless of where you started from.

Word Forms

• ladderings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ravel, run, flatbreaking, lacing, listing, cultivation.

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