escalator
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- noun
- /ˈɛskəˌleɪtər/
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escalera mecánica
- Use the escalator.
- elevators and escalators
- go up the escalator
Like I don't know how people who need an escalator would survive.
- Like I don't know how people who need an escalator would survive.
- Like literally choose the staircase over the escalator, right?
- This gal post I was just trapped on an escalator for hours.
- Every single step on the escalator says keep right, stand left.
- These are people who have a terrible time getting on escalators, so most of us just walk on.
- You could make this much more sophisticated and you could say are there escalators or not?
- Micah, I want to know your opinion of people who stand on escalators.
- This is a rare narrow escalator.
- And in almost no time, people give up the escalator because it's so much fun going up the stairs.
- I got into that funnel of people and started going down the escalator.
- Wow, this is the longest escalator.
- This is the grocery cart escalator.
- But if you walk in there and you say I'm looking for exercise shorts, yeah, go up these two escalators to the third floor.
Examples
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Ben somehow gets on the 'down' escalator, leaving Sera on the higher level.
Fiction book (1995) -
People riding up the escalator turned toward her even before they stepped off.
Fiction book (1994) -
So all you have to do is step off the escalator, turn and then keep going down.
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Every single step on the escalator says keep right, stand left.
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Why take the stairs when I could take... the escalator?
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"Come on," said Charlotte, and she led me up the escalator and through the crowds.
Fiction book (1995) -
Daphne, you should never run on a moving escalator.
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Departures for international flights are up the escalator to your left.
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Then I went up the escalator, and there was Audrey with another big hug and a chat.
Academic text (2013) -
The mall has an escalator that connects the first floor to the second floor.
Synonyms
A set of steps that move to carry people between floors
Compounds
- Jargon
A part of a contract that lets wages, prices, or benefits rise automatically when the cost of living increases
How Automated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Escalator was originally made as a brand name from the Latin root scala meaning 'ladder' or 'stairs' and the ending -ator meaning 'a thing that does something'. So an escalator is literally a machine for 'stairs', which is why it is a moving staircase.