Steer
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.
To castrate; -- said of male calves.
To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
A rudder or helm.
A helmsman, a pilot.
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Steer Quotations
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
Carroll Quigley
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry B. Adams
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
Kevin Kelly
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
Joe Flanigan
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
Joyce Cary
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
Hun Sen
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
Matthew Green
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive Barker
We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.
Bill Haley
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Steer Translations
steer in Afrikaans is rig, bestuur
steer in Dutch is richten, besturen, dirigeren, mennen
steer in Finnish is suunnata
steer in French is diriger, piloter
steer in German is Ochse
steer in Italian is dirigere
steer in Portuguese is boi
steer in Spanish is mandar, novillo castrado
steer in Swedish is styra, ungtjur
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