What's the difference between escalade and scalade?
Escalade
Definition:
(v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
(v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The German automaker announced Friday it will create another line at the plant, producing the X7, a larger SUV with three rows of seats similar to a Cadillac Escalade.
(2) I think it had a red and yellow plastic slide in the drive, the Pett Level equivalent, perhaps, of a Cadillac Escalade.
(3) The key point of this study was that first, cemented total arthroplasty does not represent a surgical escalade, a repeat operation is always possible in case of failure, and second, the concept of peritrapezial arthritis, and especially Crosby's stage 1 or stage 2 scaphotrapezial arthritis, is not a contraindication for total trapeziometacarpal arthroplasty.