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Definition: PAIR OF STAIRS |
PAIR OF STAIRS1. A set or flight of stairs. -- pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair , n., 1. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "PAIR OF STAIRS": a pair of stairs. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "PAIR OF STAIRS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kat (floor, storey, story). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стълби от етаж до етаж. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lépcsõ (aircraft step, doorstep, echelon, serial, set up, staircase, step). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airpay ofay airsstay.(various references) | |
Romanian | scarã (a pair of stairs, escalator, flight, footboard, ladder, rank, riser, running board, scale, series, staircase, stairs, step, steps, stirrup). (various references) | |
Russian | марш лестницы (flight, flight of stairs). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stepenište (flight, flight of stairs, portico, staircase, stairway). (various references) | |
Swedish | en trappa. (various references) | |
Turkish | iki kat arasındaki merdiven. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-i-o-p-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aspirators. | |
-3 letters: airstrips, apiarists, aspirator. | |
-4 letters: airports, airposts, airstrip, apiarist, parfaits, prosaist, protasis, sartorii, triforia. | |
-5 letters: aftosas, airport, airpost, aorists, aristas, aristos, parfait, parrots, pastors, pissoir, profits, rapists, raptors, riposts, rosaria, safaris, sapotas, sartors, satoris, satraps, spirits, sportif, tarsias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 49 52 4F 46 53 54 41 49 52 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001001 01010010 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001001 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A I R   O F   S T A I R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0049 0052 004F 0046 0053 0054 0041 0049 0052 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50354352249402535435435253 |
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