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Moving Stairway

Definition: Moving Stairway

Moving Stairway

Noun

1. A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Moving Stairway

DomainDefinition

Transportation

A set of stairs arranged like an endless belt and power driven so that the steps or treads may be made to ascend or descend continuously. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Moving Stairway

Synonyms: escalator (n), moving staircase (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Moving Stairway

Language Translations for "moving stairway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

rullende trappe (electric stairway, escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

roltrap (escalator). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

liukuporras (electric stairway, escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

French

  

escalier roulant (moving staircase), escalier mobile (moving staircase), escalier mécanique (moving staircase), escalator (moving staircase). (various references)

   

German

  

Rolltreppe (escalator, moving staircase, stairmoving), Fahrtreppe (electric stairway, escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυλιόμενη σκάλα (electric stairway, escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mozgólépcső (escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scala mobile (escalator, sliding scale, threshold agreement). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ovingmay airwaystay

   

Portuguese

  

escada rolante (moving staircase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escalera mecánica (escalator), escalera móvil (escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rulltrappa (escalator). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yürüyen merdiven (escalator, moving staircase). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Moving Stairway

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-v-w-y"

-4 letters: amortising, migrations, navigators, variations.

-5 letters: animators, animosity, anisogamy, atomising, aviations, avigators, gravitons, gyrations, imaginary, martagons, migration, misrating, mortising, navigator, rigatonis, sanitoria, signatory, trainways, variating, variation, visionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Moving Stairway


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 76 69 6E 67      53 74 61 69 72 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01101001 01110010 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#118 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0076 0069 006E 0067      0053 0074 0061 0069 0072 0077 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818875807325386677584896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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