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adjective

Steady adj. (compar. steadier; superl. steadiest)

Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. "The softest, steadiest plume." "Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute."

Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.

Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.

Synonyms: Fixed; regular; uniform; undeviating; invariable; unremitted; stable.

Steady rest (Mach), a rest in a turning lathe, to keep a long piece of work from trembling.

verb

Steady v. t. (past & past part. steadied; pres. part. steadying) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.

Steady v. i. To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. "Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel."

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Etymology of 'Steady'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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