Staircase vs Elevator - What's the difference?
staircase | elevator |
A flight of stairs; a stairway.
A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase , she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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, chapter=19 A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
(US) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator )
(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
(anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
As nouns the difference between staircase and elevator
is that staircase is a flight of stairs; a stairway while elevator is (us) permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.staircase
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(en noun)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}