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escadrille |
escalade |
escalader |
escalate |
escalation |
escalator
| escalator clause
| escallop
| escalloped
| escalop
| escalope de veau orloff
escalator
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun escalator has 2 senses
- escalator(n = noun.communication) escalator clause - a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index); Array is a kind of article, clause
- escalator(n = noun.artifact) moving staircase, moving stairway - a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt; Array is a kind of staircase, stairway
CIDE DICTIONARY
escalator, n. [NL. Cf. Escalade.].
A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
escalator, n. a moving staircase consisting of a circulating belt forming steps.
Etymology
f. the stem of escalade 'climb a wall by ladder' + -ATOR
ROGET THESAURUS
escalator
Elevation
N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
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