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# steer

«steer» in Mova's school dictionary: **to control which way a car, bike, boat or other vehicle goes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (steer, steers, steered, steering); noun (a steer, steers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To steer is to control which way a car, bike, boat or other vehicle goes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#m1)

2) To steer is also to guide a person or a talk in a certain direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#m2)

3) A steer is a young male cow kept for meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#m3)

4) A steer (informal) is a piece of advice or a hint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and road safety, you steer a bike with the handlebars and a car with the steering wheel. In science, steering changes direction, which needs a force. In stories, «steer clear of» means keep away from something. Phrases: «steer clear of», «steering wheel», «steer the boat».

### examples

- Steer your bike around the puddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x1)
- Dad steered the car into the parking space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x2)
- The captain steered the ship into the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x3)
- Steer clear of that dog; it bites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x4)
- The teacher steered the talk back to maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x5)
- The farmer sold three steers at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x6)
- Hold the handlebars with both hands so you can steer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x7)
- She steered her little brother away from the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x8)
- So she ordered the old boatman to steer for Squirrel Island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/#x9)

### note

Past form: steered. Do not confuse «steer» with «stir» (mix with a spoon) or «stare» (look for a long time). A steer (animal) is a male; a heifer is a young female cow.

### In the corpora

- [It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/7/)
- [Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/3/)
- [A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/4/)
- [A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/7/)
- [The small finger muscles can then steer it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.