escalator
Anything that escalatesAnything that escalates.
» My shoelace got caught in the escalator.
Mein Schnürsenkel hat sich in der Rolltreppe verfangen.
У меня шнурок попал в эскалатор.
У меня шнурок застрял в эскалаторе.
В мене шнурок застряг в ескалаторі.
Значение
значений: 4Anything that escalates.
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
Rolltreppe, Fahrtreppe
эскала́торeskalátor
ескала́торeskalátor
An upward or progressive course.
An escalator clause.
They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
- a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
- 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)
Примеры
предложений: 39My shoelace got caught in the escalator.
У меня шнурок попал в эскалатор.
ukВ мене шнурок застряг в ескалаторі.
deMein Schnürsenkel hat sich in der Rolltreppe verfangen.
The escalator is broken.
Эскалатор сломался.
ukЕскалатор зламався.
deDie Rolltreppe ist kaputt.
I don't like escalators.
Я не люблю эскалаторы.
Tom is afraid of escalators.
Том боится эскалаторов.
I saw Tom on the escalator.
Переводы
языков: 9По значениям 1
По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
By genericization from the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor CharleBy genericization from the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Формы
мн. число: escalators| Ед. число | escalator |
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| Мн. число | escalators |
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Синонимы
синонимов: 3- a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt:moving staircasemoving stairway
- 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):escalator clause