Definition of Moving stairway

1. Noun. A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt.

Exact synonyms: Escalator, Moving Staircase
Generic synonyms: Staircase, Stairway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moving Stairway

moving-picture show
moving average
moving company
moving expense
moving in
moving part
moving parts
moving picture
moving pictures
moving ramp
moving ridge
moving screen
moving spirit
moving spirits
moving staircase
moving stairway (current term)
moving the yardsticks
moving unit
moving units
moving van
moving walkway
moving walkways
movingly
movingness
movings
moviola
moviolas
movlog
movlogs
mow

Literary usage of Moving stairway

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1913)
"LORING, J. The injury here complained of happened as the plaintiff reached the top of an escalator or moving stairway, part of the State Street station of ..."

2. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1910)
"Child injured by a moving stairway or escalador in department store — Attraction to children—Storekeeper liable. In HILLERBRAND v. ..."

3. Household Physics by Claude H. Brechner (1919)
"another steps on the moving stairway and is carried up, or down, according to ... A moving stairway Is AN INCLINED PLANE. The larger the driven pulley is, ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"Euclid: has he Invented a moving stairway to learning; symposium. II. Survey. 30: 681-95. S. 6, '13. Motion picture teacher. C. Holliday. 11. World's Work. ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The moving stairway consists of an endless chain, to which are attached steps in such a manner that they form steps like ..."

6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1913)
"LORING, J. The injury here complained of happened as the plaintiff reached the top of an escalator or moving stairway, part of the State Street station of ..."

7. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1910)
"Child injured by a moving stairway or escalador in department store — Attraction to children—Storekeeper liable. In HILLERBRAND v. ..."

8. Household Physics by Claude H. Brechner (1919)
"another steps on the moving stairway and is carried up, or down, according to ... A moving stairway Is AN INCLINED PLANE. The larger the driven pulley is, ..."

9. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"Euclid: has he Invented a moving stairway to learning; symposium. II. Survey. 30: 681-95. S. 6, '13. Motion picture teacher. C. Holliday. 11. World's Work. ..."

10. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The moving stairway consists of an endless chain, to which are attached steps in such a manner that they form steps like ..."

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