noun
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A rest or support, as for the hand, a tool, or a piece of work.
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A regular boyfriend or girlfriend.
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A prostitute's regular customer.
verb
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To stabilize something; to prevent from shaking.
adjective
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Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
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Hold the ladder steady while I go up.
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Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute.
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a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object
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Smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions.
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a steady ride
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Regular and even.
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the steady course of the Sun; a steady breeze of wind
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Slow.
adverb
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To row with pressure at a low stroke-rating, often 18 strokes per minute.
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After the sprint pieces, we rowed steady for the rest of practice.
Examples of steady in a Sentence
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to steady himself.
His gaze was steady as he spoke.
Dean asked in a steady voice.
Her lips were full, a perfect bow, and her large eyes steady and concerned.
She began to steady her breathing and focus, so she could draw a portal when they were gone.
She leaned against him to steady her balance.
I must have made a sound as my stomach again roiled and I grabbed the wall to steady myself.
They took their place at the cake, Alex holding her hand steady as she cut the first piece of cake.
It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Peabody was two hundred and thirty miles and we arrived at our destination a little after eleven on Friday night, after nearly six hours of steady traffic.
The steady chinking of ice axes could be heard echoing up and down the deep gorge.
Her legs were a little wobbly, and she waited for them to steady her.
Her gaze was steady on his.
The steady tendency of Russian society towards increasing the number of secondary schools, where instruction would be based on the study of the natural sciences, is checked by the government in favour of the classical gymnasiums. 5 Sunday schools and public lectures are virtually prohibited.
Trumpet answered trumpet above the steady beat of drums and the rhythm of marching feet.
The Immortal approached with caution, his movements deliberate and his voice steady and low.
Her head nodded forward, and her breathing grew steady again.
His heartbeat was strong and steady, the thick arm wrapped around her as it had been when he held her after they'd made love for the last time before falling asleep.
He took her hand and led her through the crowd at a steady pace.
Lana accepted it and allowed him to pull her up and steady her with warm hands on her arms.
Her gaze was steady.
The steady downward spiral of snowflakes was mesmerizing, peaceful.
Taran kept his gaze steady, his heart pounding.
A steady chirping and whistling came from the forest.
Martha kept up a steady stream of reminiscences; I'm sure for Howie's benefit.
The girl appeared to be sleeping, her breathing deep and steady.
His gaze remained steady.
Her forehead rested in the nape of his neck, and she focused on the steady, slow rhythm of his heartbeat.
She tried to keep her breathing steady even as she wanted to run screaming and hide behind Rhyn.
This high mean pressure cannot be maintained for long, because as the speed increases the demand for steam per unit of time increases, so that cut-off must take place earlier and earlier in the stroke, the limiting steady speed being attained when the rate at which steam is supplied to the cylinders is adjusted by the cut-off to be equal to the maximum rate at which the boiler can produce steam, which depends upon the maximum rate at which coal can be burnt per square foot of grate.
To pass a steady current in the direction opposite to this electromotive force of polarization, the applied electromotive force E must exceed that of polarization E', and the excess E - E' is the effective electromotive force of the circuit, the current being, in accordance with Ohm's law, proportional to the applied electromotive force and represented by (E - E')/ R, where R is a constant called the resistance of the circuit.
We can therefore calculate the rate at which the salt as a whole will diffuse by examining the conditions for a steady transfer, in which the ions diffuse at an equal rate, the faster one being restrained and the slower one urged forward by the electric forces.
Bleeding from a vein is of a darker colour; the flow is steady, and the bleeding is from the distal end of the vessel.
But hitherto the countries of strongest emigration (England, Germany, &c.) have shown practically undiminished birth and marriage-rates and a steady growth in population.
To steady the young soldiers, the cavalry commander (Carl von Schmidt) halted his men, made them correct their intervals and dressing as in peace, though under a heavy fire from the French infantry, and then withdrew them behind the cover of the nearest hill at a walk.
The name radiometer arose from an idea that the final steady speed of rotation might be utilized as a rough measure of the intensity of the exciting radiation.
On the other hand, if the effects arose from balanced stresses set up inside the globe by the radiation, the effects on the vanes and on the case would be of the nature of action and reaction, so that the establishment of motion of the vanes in one direction would involve impulsion of the case in the opposite direction; but when the motion became steady there would no longer be any torque either on the vanes or on the case, and the latter would therefore come back to its previous position of equilibrium; finally, when the light was turned off, the decay of the motion of the vanes would involve impulsion of the case in the direction of their motion until the moment of the restoring torque arising from the suspension of the case had absorbed the angular momentum in the system.
But he showed a sense of the necessity for providing the country with a government, and was a steady supporter of Capo d'Istria.
Since 1870 the development of census work in the United States has been steady and rapid.
The home of cupola smelting was Germany, where it has never ceased to make steady progress.
Thus the steady advance of the Christian centre against Saladin's own corps, in which the crossbows prepared the way for the charge of the men-at-arms, met with no great resistance.
An important fact in connexion with the foreign commerce of the United Kingdom is that there has been a steady increase in imports, but there has been no corresponding steady increase in exports of British produce and manufactures.
The decline in exports, regular and steady throughout the period, and with a tendency to become more pronounced every year, affected all the principal articles of British Wool.
Since then there has been a steady improvement, and in 1905-1906 the value of the produce was estimated at £300,000 and that of the quantity exported at £200,000.
Her gaze was unusually steady and clear, as if she were already a legendary Oracle capable of seeing through whatever was before her.
They both knew he spoke the truth—a steady salary would go a long way toward lessening their money problems.
There was thus a steady immigration into the kingdom, to strengthen its armies and recruit with new blood the vigour of its inhabitants.
In the beginning of the reign of Fulk of Jerusalem (1131-1143) the progress of Zengi was steady.
A steady continuous current is then passed through the ammeter and low resistance, placed in series with one another and adjusted so as to give any required scale reading on the ammeter.
The value of farm property in the southern counties, which have been developed very recently, shows a steady increase, that of Hillsboro county surpassing the other counties of the state.