Converse of object

• climb: Don't climb the ladder with your stages on.

• ascend: But as you ascend the ladder, look out below where you tread.

• descend: Leave the cave and descend the ladder, now head right and cross the bridge goin up.

• lean: Can the leaning ladder be secured at the top?

Adjective modifier

• analgesic: The concept of WHO analgesic ladder, obviously, needs to be modified in such pain emergencies.

• retractable: Landing With retractable ladder giving access to a partly boarded loft with light point.

• telescopic: It's also the world's first truly telescopic loft ladder.

• sturdy: The vessel is provided with a sturdy dive ladder which allows reasonable access from the water back onto her deck.

• fixed: A fixed metal ladder leads up to a small rooftop terrace with lovely estuary views.

• wooden: Keep wooden ladders clear of the ground to avoid contact with damp.

Modifies a noun

• stile: Once over the ladder stile you are in a Nature Reserve.

• rung: Sometimes the DNA ladder rungs get mixed up or even lost.

• climber: An antidote to the Property Porn on TV, and a cautionary tale for starry-eyed would-be property ladder climbers.

• pitch: Here, a 9m ladder pitch in a rift on the left leads to a 28m wet pitch, rigged for SRT.

Noun used with modifier

• loft: The most cost effective loft ladders are sliding loft ladders.

• rope: The Lady Awoken by strange noises, he saw Isabel being helped down a rope ladder, by a figure in Highland costume.

• career: Contact: Graduate Team First step on the career ladder?

• escape: I want to fit an escape ladder on a balcony or over a railing.

• property: I suspect these are the survivors of negative equity, fallen forever from the property ladder.

• housing: Club Together An obvious way to get on to the housing ladder is to join forces with a friend or relative.