staircasen.

Brit.

/ˈstɛːkeɪs/, U.S.

/ˈstɛ(ə)rˌkeɪs/

Etymology: < stair n. + case n.²

a. Originally, ‘The inclosure of a pair of Stairs, whether it be with Walls, or with Walls and Railes and Bannisters, &c.’ (Moxon Mech. Exerc., 1679, p. 172); now usually a flight (or sometimes a whole series of flights) of stairs with their supporting framework, balusters, etc. spec., at Oxford and Cambridge, a college staircase and the rooms accessible from it; in transferred use, the people living in those rooms. moving staircase: see moving staircase n. at moving adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun]

stairc1000

grece1382

grecingc1400

pairc1450

slip1480

pair, flight of stairs1556

scale1592

staircase1624

scalier1652

dancers1667

flight1703

stairway1767

apple(s) and pears1857

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > one living in specific place > collectively

staircase1762

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 57 Of Staire-cases.

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 32 Here is a dainty stair-case, there being two pair of stairs which come out of the hall.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 17 b Stair-cases therefore are of two sorts..that which has no Steps, but is mounted by a Sloping Ascent, and the other is that which is mounted by Steps.

1762 J. Wesley Jrnl. 29 Mar. Who lived in the same staircase with me at Christchurch.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 297 The ascent to it was by a stair-case of a hundred and fourteen steps.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 184 The wall which supports the ends of the steps is called the stair-case.

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 419 The true Lady Marys and Lady Bettys..are consigned to the staircase and the lumber-room.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xliii. 431 Florence..crept down the staircase.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 13 The rest is divided into staircases, on each of which are six or eight sets of rooms.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 15 Till the landing on the staircase saw escape the latest spark.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. x. 699 ‘Alan, who are these mysterious creatures that come down for cocoa at ten?’.. ‘They'd bore you rather... They're people who live on this staircase. I don't see them any other time.’

1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy ii. 26 The corridor is not an Oxford institution. One lives on a staircase: commonly one set of rooms on either hand, storey by storey, from ground floor to attics. A hospitable man will give a party for the whole staircase.

1977 K. Benton Red Hen Conspiracy xvi. 130 He was one of my pupils... Leader of a very rowdy staircase.

b. transferred.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps

gree1303

grece1382

grecesa1400

ascendant1548

stairs1585

gradatory1661

staircase1670

risec1702

flight1703

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 63 When wee came to..Mount Sampion, (one of the great Staircases of Italy) we were forced to..go a foot.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 140 This Stair-case hath been made very easie to go down and up, for the convenience of the Oxen that go down to labour.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 156 A secret..staircase, scooped out of the rock that hangs over the stream of the Tigris.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xi. 290 I therefore took my axe,..and cut an oblique staircase up the wall of ice.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1641 R. Baker Apol. Lay-mens Writing in Divinity 19 Doth not the whole staire case by which all Learning..is ascended up by, lye open before them?

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. i. 17 Climax the mountain.., whose figure like that figure in Rhetorick ascends like a staire-case by degrees.

d. spirit (also bravery) of the staircase, phrases rendering French esprit de l'escalier (see esprit n. 2c). See also sense Compounds 1 below.

ΚΠ

a1906 J. Morley in H. W. & F. G. Fowler King's English (1906) i. 32 I thought afterwards, but it was the spirit of the staircase, what a pity it was that I did not stand at the door with a hat, saying, ‘Give an obol to Belisarius.’

1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. i. 32 No one will know what spirit of the staircase is who is not already familiar with esprit d'escalier.

1976 L. Hellman Scoundrel Time 110 Ah, the bravery you tell yourself was possible when it's all over, the bravery of the staircase.

e. Electronics. A voltage that alters in equal steps to a maximum or minimum value.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > voltage altering in equal steps

staircase1956

1956 Electronics Feb. 192/2 A..staircase generator which generates a negative-going staircase is shown in Fig. 1.

1959 Electronics 23 Jan. 36/3 Each pulse in the train causes one step of the staircase.

1965 Wireless World Sept. 425/1 This signal..consists of a 12·5 μs bar, a sine-squared pulse..and a five-step staircase.

†2. = staircase-shell n. at Compounds 2). Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > member of family Solariidae

staircase1713

staircase-shell1830

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. ii Buccinum scalare verum..Royal Stair-Case.

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. xiii Buccinum scalare..Small Stair-case.

1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 157 Staircase. Trochus perspectivus.

3. Physiology. A continuous series of responses to nerve stimuli, varying from a minimal to a maximal intensity. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon citing Romanes.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > movement in response to stimuli > [noun] > continuous series of responses

staircase1883

1871 Bowditch in Ber. d. k. Sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wissensch., Math.-Phys. XXIII. 669 Wir wollen eine so beschaffene Reihe von Zuckungen unter dem Namen einer Treppe zusammenfassen.]

1883 W. H. Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. 4 106 In both the strip from the tortoise's auricle and the frog's ventricle..a series of single stimulations produces a ‘staircase’.

1885 McWilliam in Jrnl. Physiol. 6 209 This phenomenon has been termed a ‘staircase of beats (aufsteigende Treppe)’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

staircase-gallery n.

ΚΠ

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlvii. 470 She paced her own room, opened the door and paced the staircase-gallery outside.

staircase-head n.

ΚΠ

1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 121 Crow, in the dark, now, reach'd the staircase head.

b. With reference to sense 1d.

staircase afterthought n.

ΚΠ

1964 Guardian 17 Jan. 11/6 The Senator, having written this last passage, decided not to deliver it, a staircase afterthought that will cost him dear.

staircase thought n.

ΚΠ

1958 J. Lodwick Bid Soldiers Shoot ii. vi. 210 ‘At what time did it start to snow that night, Lodwick?’ He was referring..to the night of the parachutage... Staircase thought makes me wish that I had suggested that they have a look at my companion's boots, to which the virginal blanket fallen from Heaven might still..be clinging.

staircase wit n.

ΚΠ

1920 A. Dobson in National Rev. July 654 Staircase-wit. If you fail to understand a joke within twenty-four hours, your symptoms indicate sluggish apprehension... This is what the French call ‘L'esprit de l'escalier’.

C2.

staircase generator n. Electronics a signal generator whose output is a staircase (sense 1e above).

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > device generating signal

signal generator1894

staircase generator1956

1956Staircase generator [see sense 1e].

1976 Pract. Electronics Oct. 812/2 The output from the staircase generator is then fed into one input of a comparator.

staircase-shell n. a shell of the genus Solarium, any member of the family Solariidæ.

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staircase1713

staircase-shell1830

1830 Say Amer. Conchol. Pl. 27 Scalaria..., a genus of very pretty shells, known by the name of staircase shells by some collectors.

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 387 The so-called staircase-shells (Solariidæ).

Derivatives

ˈstaircased adj. furnished with a staircase.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [adjective] > having stairs or steps

staircased1909

step-up1958

1909 Eng. Rev. Jan. 223 Each of the two balconied and staircased belfries.

staircase-like adj.

ΚΠ

1881 E. H. Hunt Children at Jerusalem 102 They made their way up and down such staircase-like rocks as in England would seem impossible.

ˈstaircasing n. supplying or providing with a staircase or staircases.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > supplying with staircases

staircasing1729

1729 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 563 At a Congregation..agreed to proceed in Covering flooring sashing staircasing of the new Building.

Draft additions April 2010

staircase lock n. a series of consecutive canal locks arranged so that the upper gate of one lock serves as the lower gate of the next; cf. flight n.¹ 7b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > series of locks

lockwork1780

flight1861

staircase lock1908

1908 Automotor Jrnl. 29 Feb. 291/2 The five staircase locks at Bingley..are fine examples of this type.

1949 Archit. Rev. 106 11/1 Staircase locks, or risers, are locks arranged in a flight without intermediate pounds.

2000 Canoeist Apr. 31/2 Two staircases of five locks with a passing place in the middle, the best example of staircase locks in Britain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	staircase
释义	staircasen. Brit. /ˈstɛːkeɪs/, U.S. /ˈstɛ(ə)rˌkeɪs/ Etymology: < stair n. + case n.² 1. a. Originally, ‘The inclosure of a pair of Stairs, whether it be with Walls, or with Walls and Railes and Bannisters, &c.’ (Moxon Mech. Exerc., 1679, p. 172); now usually a flight (or sometimes a whole series of flights) of stairs with their supporting framework, balusters, etc. spec., at Oxford and Cambridge, a college staircase and the rooms accessible from it; in transferred use, the people living in those rooms. moving staircase: see moving staircase n. at moving adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] stairc1000 grece1382 grecingc1400 pairc1450 slip1480 pair, flight of stairs1556 scale1592 staircase1624 scalier1652 dancers1667 flight1703 stairway1767 apple(s) and pears1857 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > one living in specific place > collectively staircase1762 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 57 Of Staire-cases. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 32 Here is a dainty stair-case, there being two pair of stairs which come out of the hall. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 17 b Stair-cases therefore are of two sorts..that which has no Steps, but is mounted by a Sloping Ascent, and the other is that which is mounted by Steps. 1762 J. Wesley Jrnl. 29 Mar. Who lived in the same staircase with me at Christchurch. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 297 The ascent to it was by a stair-case of a hundred and fourteen steps. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 184 The wall which supports the ends of the steps is called the stair-case. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 419 The true Lady Marys and Lady Bettys..are consigned to the staircase and the lumber-room. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xliii. 431 Florence..crept down the staircase. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 13 The rest is divided into staircases, on each of which are six or eight sets of rooms. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 15 Till the landing on the staircase saw escape the latest spark. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. x. 699 ‘Alan, who are these mysterious creatures that come down for cocoa at ten?’.. ‘They'd bore you rather... They're people who live on this staircase. I don't see them any other time.’ 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy ii. 26 The corridor is not an Oxford institution. One lives on a staircase: commonly one set of rooms on either hand, storey by storey, from ground floor to attics. A hospitable man will give a party for the whole staircase. 1977 K. Benton Red Hen Conspiracy xvi. 130 He was one of my pupils... Leader of a very rowdy staircase. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps gree1303 grece1382 grecesa1400 ascendant1548 stairs1585 gradatory1661 staircase1670 risec1702 flight1703 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 63 When wee came to..Mount Sampion, (one of the great Staircases of Italy) we were forced to..go a foot. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 140 This Stair-case hath been made very easie to go down and up, for the convenience of the Oxen that go down to labour. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 156 A secret..staircase, scooped out of the rock that hangs over the stream of the Tigris. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xi. 290 I therefore took my axe,..and cut an oblique staircase up the wall of ice. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1641 R. Baker Apol. Lay-mens Writing in Divinity 19 Doth not the whole staire case by which all Learning..is ascended up by, lye open before them? 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. i. 17 Climax the mountain.., whose figure like that figure in Rhetorick ascends like a staire-case by degrees. d. spirit (also bravery) of the staircase, phrases rendering French esprit de l'escalier (see esprit n. 2c). See also sense Compounds 1 below. ΚΠ a1906 J. Morley in H. W. & F. G. Fowler King's English (1906) i. 32 I thought afterwards, but it was the spirit of the staircase, what a pity it was that I did not stand at the door with a hat, saying, ‘Give an obol to Belisarius.’ 1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. i. 32 No one will know what spirit of the staircase is who is not already familiar with esprit d'escalier. 1976 L. Hellman Scoundrel Time 110 Ah, the bravery you tell yourself was possible when it's all over, the bravery of the staircase. e. Electronics. A voltage that alters in equal steps to a maximum or minimum value. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > voltage altering in equal steps staircase1956 1956 Electronics Feb. 192/2 A..staircase generator which generates a negative-going staircase is shown in Fig. 1. 1959 Electronics 23 Jan. 36/3 Each pulse in the train causes one step of the staircase. 1965 Wireless World Sept. 425/1 This signal..consists of a 12·5 μs bar, a sine-squared pulse..and a five-step staircase. †2. = staircase-shell n. at Compounds 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > member of family Solariidae staircase1713 staircase-shell1830 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. ii Buccinum scalare verum..Royal Stair-Case. 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. xiii Buccinum scalare..Small Stair-case. 1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 157 Staircase. Trochus perspectivus. 3. Physiology. A continuous series of responses to nerve stimuli, varying from a minimal to a maximal intensity. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon citing Romanes.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > movement in response to stimuli > [noun] > continuous series of responses staircase1883 1871 Bowditch in Ber. d. k. Sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wissensch., Math.-Phys. XXIII. 669 Wir wollen eine so beschaffene Reihe von Zuckungen unter dem Namen einer Treppe zusammenfassen.] 1883 W. H. Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. 4 106 In both the strip from the tortoise's auricle and the frog's ventricle..a series of single stimulations produces a ‘staircase’. 1885 McWilliam in Jrnl. Physiol. 6 209 This phenomenon has been termed a ‘staircase of beats (aufsteigende Treppe)’. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. staircase-gallery n. ΚΠ 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlvii. 470 She paced her own room, opened the door and paced the staircase-gallery outside. staircase-head n. ΚΠ 1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 121 Crow, in the dark, now, reach'd the staircase head. b. With reference to sense 1d. staircase afterthought n. ΚΠ 1964 Guardian 17 Jan. 11/6 The Senator, having written this last passage, decided not to deliver it, a staircase afterthought that will cost him dear. staircase thought n. ΚΠ 1958 J. Lodwick Bid Soldiers Shoot ii. vi. 210 ‘At what time did it start to snow that night, Lodwick?’ He was referring..to the night of the parachutage... Staircase thought makes me wish that I had suggested that they have a look at my companion's boots, to which the virginal blanket fallen from Heaven might still..be clinging. staircase wit n. ΚΠ 1920 A. Dobson in National Rev. July 654 Staircase-wit. If you fail to understand a joke within twenty-four hours, your symptoms indicate sluggish apprehension... This is what the French call ‘L'esprit de l'escalier’. C2. staircase generator n. Electronics a signal generator whose output is a staircase (sense 1e above). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > device generating signal signal generator1894 staircase generator1956 1956Staircase generator [see sense 1e]. 1976 Pract. Electronics Oct. 812/2 The output from the staircase generator is then fed into one input of a comparator. staircase-shell n. a shell of the genus Solarium, any member of the family Solariidæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > member of family Solariidae staircase1713 staircase-shell1830 1830 Say Amer. Conchol. Pl. 27 Scalaria..., a genus of very pretty shells, known by the name of staircase shells by some collectors. 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 387 The so-called staircase-shells (Solariidæ). Derivatives ˈstaircased adj. furnished with a staircase. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [adjective] > having stairs or steps staircased1909 step-up1958 1909 Eng. Rev. Jan. 223 Each of the two balconied and staircased belfries. staircase-like adj. ΚΠ 1881 E. H. Hunt Children at Jerusalem 102 They made their way up and down such staircase-like rocks as in England would seem impossible. ˈstaircasing n. supplying or providing with a staircase or staircases. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > supplying with staircases staircasing1729 1729 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 563 At a Congregation..agreed to proceed in Covering flooring sashing staircasing of the new Building. Draft additions April 2010 staircase lock n. a series of consecutive canal locks arranged so that the upper gate of one lock serves as the lower gate of the next; cf. flight n.¹ 7b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > series of locks lockwork1780 flight1861 staircase lock1908 1908 Automotor Jrnl. 29 Feb. 291/2 The five staircase locks at Bingley..are fine examples of this type. 1949 Archit. Rev. 106 11/1 Staircase locks, or risers, are locks arranged in a flight without intermediate pounds. 2000 Canoeist Apr. 31/2 Two staircases of five locks with a passing place in the middle, the best example of staircase locks in Britain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). staircasev. Brit. /ˈstɛːkeɪs/, U.S. /ˈstɛ(ə)rˌkeɪs/ Etymology: < staircase n. intransitive. Of a tenant: to purchase a freehold incrementally through a shared ownership scheme. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > incrementally or hire purchase hire-purchase1895 staircase1988 1988 Times 20 Sept. 13/3 An increasing number of rural landowners are prepared to give, or sell at well below market value, sites to housing associations for the provision of affordable homes for village people. Some of them, however, are deterred from doing so because of the right of the first occupant to ‘staircase’. 1989 Guardian 6 May (Weekend Suppl.) 27/3 When buyers ‘staircase’, they will take on more of the home at the prevailing market price rather than the original amount, so the housing association reaps the benefit of increasing values. 1990 Sunday Correspondent 6 May 43/4 Career progression means they can usually afford to staircase to outright ownership. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624v.1988
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staircasen.

Compounds

Derivatives

Draft additions April 2010

staircasev.