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A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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escalator
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He retreats along the corridor and passes the three injured, shooting another student in front of the escalators. ▪ I could never find the escalators, or the door I came in when it was time to go out. ▪ In fact it was only fifteen ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor -driven chain of individually linked steps that move up or ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another. 2 An upward or progressive course. 3 An escalator clause.
Usage examples of escalator.
After poking tentatively at the escalator with the spike of her ice axe, Martha led the way downward.
Fitzgerald was saying, as they went down the motionless escalator to the floor below.
There were three basements, one under another, until at last they stood at the bottom of the last escalator, on a bare concrete floor, swinging the portable floodlight over stacks of boxes and barrels and drums, and heaps of powdery dust.
Rather than waste time forcing the door here, they re-turned to the middle basement and came up by the escalator down which they had originally decended.
She caught a glimpse of him scrambling from one escalator to the next.
Rather than waste time forcing the door here, they returned to the middle basement and came up by the escalator down which they had originally descended.
She talked to the captain of the Down Escalator, and he could remote the soyuzoid -- with me and my parents inside -- and dock it with the Down Escalator.
We skidded across the floor, then raced down the escalator until we emerged onto the sidewalk.
They rode the escalator to the sixth tier and squirmed through pandemonium to their seats.
They made their way down and walked among the clutter, missing a hundred things for every one they saw, until they found an escalator to the basement.
It makes the crystal escalator on the red volcanic slope look like nothing so much as a snake chopped in half with a hoe.
Instead of a staircase he can climb, the escalator is now a series of shattered shards showing jagged metal and twisted glass for as far as he can see.
Achilles can see the winding line of the crystal escalator for much of the thirty leagues he has climbed, its glass catching more light than the dark slopes beneath it.
The answer lay behind that very new looking blue tiled wall, an answer that only came to her when she was suddenly aware of the sound of an escalator starting.
At the bottom, the creaking noise of the escalator had blocked out the sound of the door at the top being breached.