Escalator vs Mina - What's the difference?
escalator | mina |
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
An upward or progressive course.
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An escalator clause.
(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
* 1989 , C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato?s Apology of Socrates ,
(historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.
* 1999 , Andrew George, translating Gilgamesh , VI:
As a noun escalator
is a motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.As a pronoun mina is
mine.escalator
English
Noun
(en noun)- They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator .
Derived terms
* escalator clauseSee also
* (wikipedia "escalator") * (commonslite) * movator * moving pavement, moving sidewalk * moving ramp * moving walkway * stairway * step * travelator English genericized trademarksmina
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .Etymology 2
From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)Noun
(en-noun)page 174,
- What then of the actual fine of thirty minae' Socrates proposes? Thirty ' minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years? wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a libary of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras? book is any guide (26d6-e2).
- Thirty minas' of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two ' minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.
