Crossword clues for escalator
escalator
- Endless series of steps to get to the next level
- Key singer holding a run - it may go up or down
- Ham farmer visited by ten itinerant ham eaters?
- Way up or down
- It'll give you a lift
- Moving staircase
- Nonstop flight?
- Indoor transport
- Thing that's often marked down at a department store?
- It may bring you down
- Department store sight
- . . at the mall
- Lazy person's stairs?
- See 2-Down
- "Getting fairgoers moving on the right track" (Paris, 1900)
- One-way flight?
- 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)
- A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
- Kind of clause
- Moving stairs
- Reversible machine
- Alec's reviewed schedule about moving staircase
- Moving stairway
- Moving flight will involve a real cost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Escalator \Es"ca*la`tor\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. 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) [syn: escalator clause]
a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt [syn: moving staircase, moving stairway]
Wikipedia
Escalator is the only album by the Sam Gopal band, released in 1969 on the small Stable Records label. The band also released a single "Horse", with the B-side a Willie Dixon cover " Back Door Man", just before the release of the album, which the re-released album includes as bonus tracks. Ian Fraser Kilmister, later known as Lemmy, joined the band after playing in The Rockin' Vickers, but appears as Ian Willis, as he was considering changing his surname to that of his stepfather George Willis.
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 down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.
Escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. Principal areas of usage include department stores, shopping malls, airports, transit systems, convention centers, hotels, arenas, stadiums, train stations (subways) and public buildings.
Escalators have the capacity to move large numbers of people, and they can be placed in the same physical space as a staircase. They have no waiting interval (except during very heavy traffic), they can be used to guide people toward main exits or special exhibits, and they may be weatherproofed for outdoor use. A non-functioning escalator can function as a normal staircase, whereas many other conveyances become useless when they break down.
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.