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Meanings of stairstep in English

Russian
ступень
Catalan
esglaó
Spanish
escalón

An elevated portion of a walkway that often forms one part of staircase.

      ступень
      Synonyms
      Examples for "run"
      Examples for "run"
      1
      The banks' recent run of good form came to an end today.
      The Irish Times
      2
      This year the work will likely run out months earlier, Olson said.
      Reuters
      3
      The critical issue now is whether the run of good news continues.
      Reuters
      4
      I had run quite far and was a long way from home.
      Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain
      5
      Rice said the two shows would run at different times of year.
      Reuters
      1
      However, today takes us one step closer to a more equal Britain.
      The Guardian
      2
      It just means we're one step closer to home, right? I ask.
      The Hunger Games
      3
      Public opinion would regard this as a step in the right direction.
      The South African
      4
      PSG need a similar result to go one step further this time.
      Reuters
      5
      It's time to take a step back and ask some necessary questions.
      The Guardian
      1
      And in this home, for example, the stairs are a great place.
      Wired
      2
      There's no good jogging course around here, so we use the stairs.
      Blind willow, sleeping woman
      3
      The stairs went on much further and higher than James thought possible.
      James Potter and the Morrigan Web
      4
      Reacher said, 'How fast can you run up a flight of stairs?'
      61 hours
      5
      Doors opened and shut; voices murmured; quick feet sounded on the stairs.
      Queed: A Novel
      1
      He saw her the moment she was free of the stair space.
      A Cavern of Black Ice
      2
      The two men in it ran for the boarding-stair of the cargo-boat.
      Talents, Incorporated
      3
      And they discovered a second tower up a second, smaller winding stair.
      The Lives of Christopher Chant
      4
      I heard shouts on the stair, and in rushed the two boys.
      The Seaboard Parish Volume 3
      5
      After a time he set a booted foot on the first stair.
      Orb Sceptre Throne
      1
      Come on, returned Thesel, who all the time was leading her down the stairway step by step.
      The Day of the Beast
      2
      We do not like to mount a stairway step by step; we wish to shoot to the top in an elevator.
      The Story of Porcelain
      Usage of stairstep in English
      1
      The 'stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp.
      The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
      2
      The next morning I goes down about two miles of stairsteps to the bottom and hunts for Luke.
      Stories from Everybody's Magazine
      3
      Inside the cylinder, the stairsteps were placed so that they wound up and around the center of the structure.
      The Complete Rama Omnibus
      Translations for stairstep
      Spanish
      escalón
      Stairstep through the time