Since escalation refers to something that goes up, shouldn't there be a different name for a moving staircase that goes down? What would it be?
2007-02-07 02:47:35 · 12 answers · asked by mdfalco71 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I took a peek in The Very Big Dictionary, which told me, rather depressingly, that the opposite of Escalation is Plunge.
I think it's time for a whole new word to join the English language. Either that, or I'm going to have to stick to calling the down escalator Adrian, which makes people look at me funny...
2007-02-07 03:19:36 · answer #1 · answered by busted.mike 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If that's the case, I would travel from the ground floor to the 10th in a lift, and then take the stairs down, rather than get in the 'plummet' or 'drop'
Escalate usually refers to things going up that shouldn't, such as escalating unrest, so should we even be using escalator?
2007-02-07 11:27:57 · answer #2 · answered by Alan A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The down escalator
2007-02-07 10:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by mort_kaeru1029 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know.....the only variation I have heard of are the elevators at the Luxor are called inclinators, since they travel on an angle....
Maybe "escalators" of both directions could be called inclinators and declinators....
2007-02-07 10:53:52 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your talking about a Conveyor transport. We call them escalators in the U.S
2007-02-07 10:54:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Either a Descalator , Descendor or a Descendator.
2007-02-07 13:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Andielep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A very sad escalator ;)
2007-02-07 11:08:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Downstairs?? It always go up and requires being flipped onto its backside such that the stairs are accessible - from my layman's point of view.
2007-02-07 11:02:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL The shaft
2007-02-07 11:42:08 · answer #9 · answered by Me, again 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
unescalator? descalator
2007-02-07 10:50:36 · answer #10 · answered by mongo862001 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋