Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: steer
IPA transcription: [st'ɪɹ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
    Meaning: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
  • Synonyms: steer
    Meaning: direct (oneself) somewhere; "Steer clear of him"
  • Synonyms: guide, steer
    Meaning: be a guiding or motivating force or drive; "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
Usage examples
  • "I believe you could steer in the dark," she declared.
  • If there is anything in the way, he can steer himself around it.
  • We had to steer more and more to the west, so that our course was very erratic.
  • The admiral stationed himself at the helm to steer, and the vice admirals took the oars.
  • Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
  • "Yes, and if Sylvia understood how to steer by the compass she could steer the Butterfly as well at night as she can now."
  • And after him Erginus and Nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer. But the others held them back, and many of his comrades granted it to Ancaeus.
  • We held a course for 2 1/2 hours with difficulty, then the sun disappeared, and snow drove in our faces with northerly wind--very warm and impossible to steer, so camped.
  • We decided to steer for the moraine under Mt. Buckley and, pulling with crampons, we crossed some very irregular steep slopes with big crevasses and slid down towards the rocks.
  • It required all the address of the pilot to steer through the archipelago, going from one bank to another, avoiding the shallows, shirking the eddies, and maintaining the advance.