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Steady   /stˈɛdi/   Listen
Steady

adjective
(compar. steadier; superl. steadiest)
1.
Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.  "A steady job" , "A steady breeze" , "A steady increase" , "A good steady ballplayer"
2.
Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall.  Synonyms: firm, unfluctuating.
3.
Securely in position; not shaky.
4.
Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.  Synonyms: firm, steadfast, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.  "A firm mouth" , "Steadfast resolve" , "A man of unbendable perseverence" , "Unwavering loyalty"
5.
Relating to a person who does something regularly.  Synonym: regular.  "A steady drinker"
6.
Not easily excited or upset.
verb
(past & past part. steadied; pres. part. steadying)
1.
Make steady.  Synonyms: becalm, calm.
2.
Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace.  Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize.
adverb
1.
In a steady manner.  Synonym: steadily.
noun
1.
A person loved by another person.  Synonyms: sweetheart, sweetie, truelove.



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"Steady" Quotes from Famous Books



... in which a magnetic field originates round the path of a moving charge—being generated during the acceleration-period by a pulse of radiation which travels with the speed of light, being maintained during the steady-motion period by a sort of inertia as if in accordance with the first law of motion, and being destroyed only by a return pulse of re-radiation during a retardation-period when the moving charge is stopped or diverted or reversed—all this can hardly be fully ...
— Life and Matter - A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' • Oliver Lodge
... gain was slow, it was, steady. Before another dozen miles had been passed Peggy was flying ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... "what in h—l are you doing with that machine gun? You've got it clean out of focus. Here, Jose, come in closer—that's right. Steady there now, and don't forget, at the second whistle you and Pete are dead. Here, you, Pete, how in thunder do you think you can die there? You're all out of the picture and hidden by that there sage brush. That's no place to die. And, ...
— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock
... and more often, it is brightly colored with red, blue, brown, or black pigment. The macronucleus is globular and central, occasionally band-form and with numerous attached micronuclei. Food substance varied, usually vegetable matter, see, however, below. Cysts are globular. Movement is a steady progression, ...
— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins
... said he. He spread his massive legs apart, drew a deep breath, and raised his weapon. It lay in his grasp steady as a log, and I saw that Percy Darrow's fate was in the hands of that dangerous class of natural marksman that possesses no nerves. But for the second time my teeth saved his life. The trigger guard slipped against Thrackles's lacerated hand almost at the instant of discharge. He missed; and the ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams


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