English Dictionary

escalator

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/

名詞

Anything that escalates. / A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another. / An upward or progressive course.

日本語の意味

上昇するもの、もしくは上向きに進むもの / 自動で人を上階から下階へ、またはその逆に移動させる、動力によって駆動される連続的な段差を持つ機械装置（エスカレーター） / 上昇または進歩していく様子、流れ

The politician's inflammatory remarks acted as an escalator for the protests, turning small demonstrations into violent clashes.

政治家の挑発的な発言が抗議をエスカレートさせる要因となり、小さなデモを暴力的な衝突に変えた。

意味（1）

Anything that escalates.

Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.

意味（2）

A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

意味（3）

An upward or progressive course.

Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream

意味（4）

An escalator clause.

They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

escalators （ plural ）