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stairs

n. (label en plurale tantum) A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.

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stairs

n. a way of access consisting of a set of steps [syn: stairway, staircase, steps]

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Stairs

A stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs, or simply stairs is a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. Stairs may be straight, round, or may consist of two or more straight pieces connected at angles.

Special types of stairs include escalators and ladders. Some alternatives to stairs are elevators (lifts in British English), stairlifts and inclined moving walkways as well as stationary inclined sidewalks (pavements in British English).

Stairs (disambiguation)

Stairs are a set of steps.

Stairs may also refer to:

  • Stairs (surname), a list of people with the surname
  • The Stairs, retro rock band
  • "The Stairs" (song), by INXS
  • The Stairs (film), a 1950 short documentary
  • IBM STAIRS IBM "Storage and Information Retrieval System" software
  • Stairs (video game)
Stairs (surname)

Stairs is the surname of:

  • A. Edison Stairs (1924-2010), Canadian politician
  • Denis Stairs (engineer) (1889–1980), Canadian engineer and businessman
  • Denis Stairs (political scientist) (born 1939), professor of political science
  • Ernest W. Stairs (1873–1941), Canadian politician
  • Jess M. Stairs (born 1942), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1977-2008)
  • John Fitzwilliam Stairs (1848–1904), Canadian businessman and politician
  • Matt Stairs (born 1968), Major League Baseball player
  • William Grant Stairs (1863–1892), explorer of Africa, leader of the Stairs Expedition
  • William J. Stairs (b. 1956), Canadian political consultant
  • William Machin Stairs (1789–1865), Canadian merchant, banker, statesman
Stairs (video game)

Stairs is a psychological survival horror video game developed by GreyLight Entertainment and published by Digital Tribe Games. It was released on 28 September 2015 for Microsoft Windows.

"Stairs" is loosely based on the Donnor Party

Usage examples of "stairs".

She let out another scream, a littler one then, of surprise, and whipped her head sideways to look down the hall before running down the rest of the stairs, sliding and nearly falling, twice.

The front door was closed against the sun, making the hallway dark after the brightness of the upstairs and Becca paused, slowing down on the stairs, blinking to let her eyes adjust to the light.

He ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time, leaving Becca to stand in the hall, her egregious tokens dangling elegantly from her fingers.

The floor had been refinished down the hall right up to the back door and up to the narrow door of the room under the stairs, but as far as she could tell, the only adjustments to the house up to there were just that.

There was a small room built under the stairs, hardly large enough to be called a room.

On her way up the stairs she glanced out of the tall, narrow window between the new front door and the wall for the stairs.

Murphy room was under the stairs to the peak of the wall, and beyond that the rest of the wall must have been dead space.

They found Don with Amber, at the end of the hall, in front of the pull-down stairs that led to the attic.

Tom came to the top of the stairs and walked down two or three steps to see her better.

The four of them went down the stairs, crowding into the little room underneath, with their bottles of beer.

Becca was taking her husband into her mouth, to his great delight, when downstairs the light sneaking out from under the door to the little room under the stairs spilled out into the hall.

Some time after Dan Mason pulled the front door to the house on Belisle shut and locked the deadbolt with his key, the pretty porcelain knob on the door to the little room under the stairs turned and freed itself from the restraint of the latch.

Just the same, when he went back inside the house about an hour later, he bypassed the room under the stairs, and cut through the dining room and the living room to go upstairs instead.

Concerned as he was with getting Becca a drink, he went directly down the front hall, passing the room under the stairs without thinking.

At the bottom of the stairs, he stepped into the same puddle and bent over and mopped it up.