escalator

Etymology
From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor in 1900, from  +  +, which forms nouns of agency. See the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by, and is equivalent to. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Noun

 * 1) Anything that escalates.
 * 2) 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&apos;s shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
 * 1) An upward or progressive course.
 * 2) An escalator clause.
 * They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
 * 1) An upward or progressive course.
 * 2) An escalator clause.
 * They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
 * They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: shkallë lëvizëse
 * Arabic: دَرَج مُتَحَرِّك, سُلَّم مُتَحَرِّك, سُلَّم دَوَّار
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: eskalator
 * Bashkir:
 * Belarusian: эскала́тар
 * Bengali: এস্কেলেটর
 * Bulgarian: ескала́тор
 * Burmese: စက်လှေကား
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 扶手電梯, 電梯
 * Mandarin:, 自動電梯, , 自動鏈梯, 升降階梯
 * Crimean Tatar: eskalator
 * Czech: eskalátor, pohyblivé schodiště, pohyblivé schody, jezdicí schody, pojízdné schody
 * Danish: rulletrappe
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: eskalaator
 * Faroese: rullutrappa
 * Finnish:, liukuportaikko,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ესკალატორი
 * German:, Fahrtreppe
 * Greek: κυλιόμενες σκάλες
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: एस्केलेटर, चलसोपान, चलती सीढ़ी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: rúllustigi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: staighre beo
 * Italian: scala mobile
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: эскалатор
 * Khmer: ជណ្ដើរយោង
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຂັ້ນໃດເລື່ອນ, ຂັ້ນໄດໄຟຟ້າ
 * Latvian: eskalators
 * Lithuanian: eskalatorius
 * Lushootseed: lədᶻək̓ʷ səxʷʔigʷəɬ
 * Macedonian: ескала́тор
 * Malay: tangga elektrik, tangga gerak, eskalator
 * Maori: ara maiangi, ēkareta
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: урсдаг шат
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: escalateux
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: rulletrapp
 * Persian:
 * Dari: پِلَّه‌بَرْقِی, زِینَهٔ بَرْقِی
 * Iranian Persian: پِلِّه‌بَرْقی
 * Plautdietsch: Rolltrap
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: еска̀ла̄тор
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: eskalátor, pohyblivé schody
 * Slovene: tekoče stopnice
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: běžeca stupnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sigdan
 * Tajik: эскалатор
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གློག་འགུལ་སྐས་འཛེག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: eskalator
 * Ukrainian: ескала́тор
 * Urdu: ایسْکِلیٹَر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: rolatridem
 * Welsh: esgaladur
 * Yiddish: עסקאַלאַטאָר

Verb

 * 1)  To move by escalator.

Etymology
. Genericized trademark.

Etymology
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