ladder vs latter
Definitions
noun
- steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
- a row of unravelled stitches
- ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
verb
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
Examples
Jane's language skills enabled her to forge ahead on the career ladder.
The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
Definitions
adjective
- referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)
noun
- the second of two or the second mentioned of two
Examples
The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine.
Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
