different between staircase vs upstair

staircase

English

Etymology

stair +? case

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /?st???ke?s/

Hyphenation: stair?case

Noun

staircase (plural staircases)

A flight of stairs; a stairway.
A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.

Derived terms

staircasing

Translations

Verb

staircase (third-person singular simple present staircases, present participle staircasing, simple past and past participle staircased)

(transitive) To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) so as to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.

Anagrams

Caesarist

staircase From the web:

what staircase was used in gone with the wind
what staircase left out
staircase meaning
what's staircase in french
what staircase phenomenon
what staircase does
what staircase called
what's staircase in italian

upstair

English

Etymology

up +? stair

Adjective

upstair (not comparable)

(dated) upstairs
an upstair drawing-room

upstair From the web:

what upstairs neighbors are really doing
what's upstairs meme
what's upstairs at graceland
what's upstairs in nook's cranny
what's upstairs the stairs don't talk
what's upstairs joke
what's upstairs in the ozark house
what's upstairs we happy few

Send

different between staircase vs upstair

staircase

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

See also

Anagrams

staircase From the web:

upstair

English

Etymology

Adjective

upstair From the web:

you may also like