Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A series or flight of steps; a staircase. Often used in the plural.
- n. One of a flight of steps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A single step in a staircase.
- n. A series of steps, a staircase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
- n. A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A step; a degree.
- n. One of a series of steps to mount by: as, a flight of stairs.
- n. A flight or succession of flights of steps, arranged one behind and above the other in such a way as to afford passage from a lower to a higher level, or vice versa: as, a winding stair; the back stair: often used in the plural in the same sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
Etymologies
Examples
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Do you know why in the Vatican museum the stair is a double helix?
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The small kitchen was at the top of the main stair case in Bruch House, in the section reserved for amenities like lifts, plumbing, and entrances.
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Each stair is illuminated by a three beam spotlight and all the wires are intelligently hidden.
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The spiral stair is very keen but getting my humungous bag up to the loft was a trial, especially as
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This little stair is enclosed on one side by a balustrade on which the children can rest their hands.
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In this game of the Big Stair, the eye of the child can easily recognise an error, since if he mistakes, the stair is irregular, that is, there will be a high step, behind which the step which should have ascended, decreases.
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The little round stair is another game, in which a little wooden stairway, built on the plan of the spiral, is used.
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They are often called stair chairs because they frequently use a chair that is attached to a set of rails in order to transpo ...
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Though those designs mostly tend to open by lifting the stair, which is hinged.
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In his architecture Francois had the help of his house guest, Leonardo da Vinci, who seems responsible for l'escalier d'Honneur, the central stair, which is in a double-helix design.
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