An ascending series or ‘flight’ of steps leading from one level to another, esp. from one floor to another in a house; a staircase.
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| 释义 | society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] (120) stairc1000 An ascending series or ‘flight’ of steps leading from one level to another, esp. from one floor to another in a house; a staircase. grece1382 A flight of stairs or steps; a stairway. grecingc1400 Chiefly plural. Steps in a flight; flights of steps; stairs. Rarely singular. A step; also, ? a flight of steps (quot. 1500). pairc1450 A set or flight of stairs or steps; (also) a portable set of steps. Also figurative. slip1480 A stairway. Obsolete. rare. pair, flight of stairs1556 collective plural (of sense 2). = sense 1. Also, in generalized sense, the steps of staircases. (In the latter use, the plural of sense 2 coincides… scale1592 A flight (of stairs); a staircase. Obsolete. staircase1624 Originally, ‘The inclosure of a pair of Stairs, whether it be with Walls, or with Walls and Railes and Bannisters, &c.’ (Moxon Mech. Exerc.… scalier1652 A staircase. dancers1667 plural. Stairs. slang. flight1703 The series of stairs between any two landings; hence a series of steps, terraces, etc., ascending without change of direction. stairway1767 A way up a flight of stairs, a staircase. apple(s) and pears1857 In full apple(s) and pears. Stairs. Subcategories:— winding or spiral (12) — leading to door of building (2) — giving access to loft (3) — private (1) — at the back of a house (1) — other types of stairs or staircase (12) — step (26) — stringers (12) — pillar of spiral staircase (4) — other supports for stair (3) — handrail (13) — landing (12) — top of staircase (2) — foot of staircase (1) — sloping part of parapet (1) — width of staircase (1) — supplying with staircases (1) |
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