fire escape

A structure or device, such as an outside stairway attached to a building, erected for emergency exit in the event of fire.

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fire escape

(Building) a means of evacuating people from a building in the event of fire, esp a metal staircase outside the building

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fire′ escape`

a metal stairway down an outside wall for escaping from a burning building.

[1670–80]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

fire escape - a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency

emergency exit

staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps

Translations

سُلَّمُ النَّجَاةِ مِنَ الـحَرِيق

požární schodiště

brandtrappe

Feuerleiter Feuertreppe NotausgangNottür

έξοδος κινδύνου για πυρκαγιά

escalera de incendios

paloportaat

sortie de secours

izlaz u slučaju požara

scala antincendio uscita di sicurezza

非常階段

화재 피난 장치

nödutgång

ทางหนีไฟ

yangın çıkışı

lối thoát hiểm

防火梯

fire escape

n → scala di sicurezza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fire escape

→ سُلَّمُ النَّجَاةِ مِنَ الـحَرِيق požární schodiště brandtrappe Feuerleiter έξοδος κινδύνου για πυρκαγιά escalera de incendios paloportaat sortie de secours izlaz u slučaju požara scala antincendio 非常階段 화재 피난 장치 brandtrap rømningsvei wyjście ewakuacyjne saída de emergência пожарный выход nödutgång ทางหนีไฟ yangın çıkışı lối thoát hiểm 防火梯

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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But since wishes could do me no good, I presently took courage and looked about me for a means of escape. When I had climbed a tall tree I first of all directed my anxious glances towards the sea; but, finding nothing hopeful there, I turned landward, and my curiosity was excited by a huge dazzling white object, so far off that I could not make out what it might be.

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I was ever on the look-out for means of escape; and, find- ing no direct means, I determined to try to hire my time, with a view of getting money with which to make my escape.

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It was poetry that inculcated laws and maxims; it was by the harmony of its lines that traditions were handed down at a time when memory had to supply the place of writing; and it was the first language of wisdom and of inspiration." It has been above all the recreation of statesmen and great officials, a means of escape from the weariness of public life and the burden of ruling.

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He felt, so to speak, renewed; again the struggle, so a means of escape had come.

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No longer was I a jibbering idiot, but a sane, reasoning man with the means of escape within my very hands.

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He saw himself perishing amid this dreadful snowy waste, and could see no means of escape.

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He had therefore bristled up at Boxtel's hatred, whom he had suspected to be a warm friend of the prisoner, making trifling inquiries to contrive with the more certainty some means of escape for him.

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Just to think of a party of these unnatural gourmands taking it into their heads to make a convivial meal of a poor devil, who would have no means of escape or defence: however, there was no help for it.

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Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, as he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence.

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But I had a means of escape that reconciled everything--that was to find refuge in "the sublime and the beautiful," in dreams, of course.

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Her whole mind was devoted to weighing each possible means of escape.

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I knew though that my ruse had worked and that temporarily at least Thuvia and Tars Tarkas were safe, and the means of escape was theirs.

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