Escalator vs. Ramp
Escalatornoun
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
Rampnoun
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
Escalatornoun
An upward or progressive course.
Rampnoun
A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
Escalatornoun
An escalator clause.
‘They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.’;
Rampnoun
(aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
Escalatornoun
A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; - originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.
Rampnoun
(aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron)
Escalatornoun
a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
Rampnoun
(skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
Escalatornoun
a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
Rampnoun
A speed bump
Escalatornoun
a moving staircase consisting of an endlessly circulating belt of steps driven by a motor, which conveys people between the floors of a public building.
Rampnoun
An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal.
Rampnoun
(Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person.
Rampverb
To behave violently; to rage.
Rampverb
To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
Rampverb
To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
Rampverb
To stand in a rampant position. en
Rampverb
(intransitive) To change value, often at a steady rate
Rampverb
To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Rampverb
To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
‘Their bridles they would champ,And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp.’;
Rampverb
To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
‘With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, . . . and so ramping upon trees, they mount up to a great height.’;
Rampnoun
A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
‘The bold AscaloniteFled from his lion ramp.’;
Rampnoun
A highwayman; a robber.
Rampnoun
A romping woman; a prostitute.
Rampnoun
Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
Rampnoun
An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
Rampnoun
an inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another
Rampnoun
North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
Rampnoun
a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
Rampverb
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
Rampverb
furnish with a ramp;
‘The ramped auditorium’;
Rampverb
be rampant;
‘the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction’;
Rampverb
creep up -- used especially of plants;
‘The roses ramped over the wall’;
Rampverb
stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
