rung
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3.0
- noun
- /rʌŋ/
:
peldaño
- Make sure that each rung is secure before you begin to climb.
- rungs of the ladder
- the lowest rung
- the top rung
And so groups will do high rung and low rung thinking together.
- And so groups will do high rung and low rung thinking together.
- But if you missed a rung on the ladder, you would fall.
- The the basic first few rungs of the ladder of a capitalist climb.
- And then Cherry I feel like is the next rung on the ladder for me.
- Just simply move a stake to the outside of these rungs and then just keep going up.
- Nice rungs for that tomato plant to hang on.
- So that would be the first, that would be the first rung.
- So he was at the bottom of the bottom rung.
- Well, maybe you can use the vision like a ladder rung.
- It's enough to realize that there is a hierarchy of being and we are on the higher rungs because we have reason.
Examples
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But if you missed a rung on the ladder, you would fall.
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Well, this is the lowest rung of the ladder.
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-We're missing a rung here.
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All right, now, one rung at a time.
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I reached backward with one foot, feeling for the first rung of the ladder.
Fiction book (1990) -
Brian puts his feet on the outside rungs of the ladder and slides down to the factory floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
Most partners in interracial marriages worked jobs on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
Academic text (2005) -
By contrast, Haitians in Guadeloupe clearly occupy the bottom rung of the island's economic hierarchy.
Academic text (2003) -
Brian, now fully suited up, climbs the endless rungs of an extended aerial ladder.
Fiction book (1991) -
Please stand on the second rung of the ladder while I help you reach the roof.
Synonyms
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9.9
A piece that forms a step of a ladder or a spoke of a wheel
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rung comes from an old English word hrung meaning 'pole' or 'bar'. So a rung is literally the short bar you step on or rest your foot on between the sides of a ladder or chair.