steerer


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steer 1

 (stîr)
v. steered, steer·ing, steers
v.tr.
1.
a. To guide (a vessel or vehicle), especially by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or wheel: steered the car around the curve.
b. To set and follow (a course): steered a path around the rocks.
2.
a. To direct the course of: steered the business toward record profits. See Synonyms at conduct.
b. To advise or direct (a person) toward a place or course of action: steered the intern toward a career in sales. See Synonyms at guide.
v.intr.
1. To guide a vessel or vehicle.
2. To follow or move in a set course.
3. To admit of being steered or guided: a craft that steers easily.
n.
A piece of advice: The salesman gave me a bum steer on that new car.
Idiom:
steer clear of
To stay away from; avoid.
[Middle English steren, from Old English stēran; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
steer′a·ble adj.
steer′er n.

steer 2

 (stîr)
n.
A young ox, especially one castrated before sexual maturity and raised for beef.
[Middle English, from Old English stēor; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.steerer - the person who steers a shipsteerer - the person who steers a ship  
helmsman, steersman
coxswain, cox - the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
Jack-tar, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, gob, Jack, tar - a man who serves as a sailor
2.steerer - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)steerer - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
decoy
accomplice, confederate - a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
roper - a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
shill - a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
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Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not-the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling.
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Its face is that of a tyrant, its numbers are false as those on a lottery ticket; its hands are those of a bunco steerer, who makes an appointment with you to your ruin.
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Of the two sitters one held the rudder lines, and looked at us attentively - as did all the rowers; the other sitter was wrapped up, much as Provis was, and seemed to shrink, and whisper some instruction to the steerer as he looked at us.
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On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew.
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They were so quiet that, remembering them well, one comes to doubt that they ever existed - places of repose for tired ships to dream in, places of meditation rather than work, where wicked ships - the cranky, the lazy, the wet, the bad sea boats, the wild steerers, the capricious, the pig-headed, the generally ungovernable - would have full leisure to take count and repent of their sins, sorrowful and naked, with their rent garments of sailcloth stripped off them, and with the dust and ashes of the London atmosphere upon their mastheads.
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The normal crew number is 22, including 20 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer.
A dragon boating first for Cyprus
A fast long-wavelength beam steerer uses a commercial micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror controlled by a high-performance digital signal processor (DSP).
Long-wavelength beam steerer based on a micro-electromechanical mirror
of the emergence of client/server architectures, which "necessarily have divided technical leadership because they re-use components from other platforms," requiring an "aspiring client/server platform steerer" to "make progress on each component at or near the technical level of the leader of that component," an "extraordinarily difficult feat." (114)
Broadband competition in the Internet ecosystem
Melbourne, June 4 ( ANI ): A Chinese expert steerer has set a new record of parallel parking by squeezing his car into a gap just 15cm longer than the vehicle.
Chinese driver breaks parallel park record
This gives these subsidiaries the importance of weight: "If I am the bigger country and I have a problem with the blue [variant of a product], even if in all other countries the blue is an interesting concept but there is a problem conceptually in Italy, then the co-ordinator, the steerer will say maybe I need to listen to you more than a country that weighs 5%" (product manager at German MNE's Italian subsidiary).
Different forms of agency and institutional influences within multinational enterprises
I was bestowed with the dubious honour of being the 'worst steerer' he'd ever witnessed.
Testing times; PASSING your driving test is a monumental moment ... but did you know that the number of times it takes you to ditch the 'L' plates will determine how well you fare behind the wheel? MIEKA SMILES tests out the theory

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