steer
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Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: stĭə(r), IPA(key): /stɪə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /stɪɹ/, /stɪɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English steeren, steren, stiren, sturen, steoren, from Old English stēoran, stīeran, stȳran (“to steer; guide a vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiurijan (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną (“to steer”).
The noun is from Middle English steere, stere (“rudder”), steor, from Old English stēor, stȳr (“steering; guidance; direction”). Compare Dutch stuur, German Steuer, Icelandic stýri.
Verb edit
steer (third-person singular simple present steers, present participle steering, simple past and past participle steered)
- (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- The boat steered towards the iceberg.
- I steered homeward.
- (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- I find it very difficult to steer a skateboard.
- When planning the boat trip, we had completely forgotten that we needed somebody to steer.
- 1842, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad:
- I leap on board: no helmsman steers: I float till all is dark.
- (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
- The boat steers easily.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9:
- Where the wind / Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail.
- (transitive) To direct a group of animals.
- (transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
- Hume believes that principles of association steer the imagination of artists.
- (reflexive) To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- (transitive) To direct a conversation.
- (transitive) To direct or send an object into a specific place
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steer (plural steers)
- (informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
- 1939, Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties:
- I tried to give you the steer, but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you.
- (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English steer, ster, from Old English stēor (“a young bull or cow; steer”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz (“bull; steer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)táwros (“wild bull; aurochs”). Cognate with Dutch stier, German Stier, Icelandic stjór, Latin taurus (“bull”), Greek ταύρος (távros). Doublet of tur and Taurus.
Noun edit
steer (plural steers)
- The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2:
- He counted the cattle over and over. It diverted him to speculate as to how much weight each of the steers would probably put on by spring.
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Verb edit
steer (third-person singular simple present steers, present participle steering, simple past and past participle steered)
- (transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English stēor (“steer”), from Proto-West Germanic *steur, from Proto-Germanic *steuraz.
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /steːr/
- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /støːr/
Noun edit
steer (plural steres)
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References edit
- “stẹ̄r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2 edit
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steer
- Alternative form of stere (“rudder, control”)
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Old English styrian.
Noun edit
steer
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