Staircase vs Entry - What's the difference?
staircase | entry |
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.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
(uncountable) The act of entering.
(uncountable) Permission to enter.
A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
(linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
As nouns the difference between staircase and entry
is that staircase is a flight of stairs; a stairway while entry is (uncountable) the act of entering.staircase
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Noun
(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.}}
Derived terms
* staircasingAnagrams
*entry
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(wikipedia entry)Alternative forms
* entery (chiefly archaic)Noun
- entry for children only if accompanied by an adult
- What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?
- The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.