What's the difference between flyer and staircase?

Flyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One that uses wings.
  • (n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
  • (n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
  • (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
  • (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
  • (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
  • (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) I suppose I may be one of the most frequent flyers on the NHS, and therefore one of your best customers.
  • (4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
  • (5) Two aircrew members lost a total of 9 "duties not to include flying" (DNIF) days: one flyer was grounded for 1 d with a corneal abrasion and another for 8 d with epithelial microcysts.
  • (6) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (7) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
  • (8) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (9) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (10) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
  • (11) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
  • (12) I was a nervous flyer so he had the plane done out like a sweetshop.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
  • (15) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
  • (16) The Bundesliga high flyers unveiled Hernández at a press conference on Tuesday and he said: “I want to go back to feeling important and happy.
  • (17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
  • (18) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (19) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
  • (20) We would walk around and see flyers that said stuff like, ‘Video is out now text 831 to 7988’ or whatever the number was.

Staircase


Definition:

  • (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
  • (2) An unidentified Moscow police official told the Interfax news agency that the group used “an internal staircase” to reach the top floor of the building and then used “special equipment” to reach its spire.
  • (3) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (4) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
  • (5) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
  • (6) Ibotenate lesioned rats, despite having larger lesions than the quinolinate, showed no deficits in eating or drinking in the home cage, or reaching or grasping disabilities in the staircase test.
  • (7) The potentiation during a staircase decreased with increasing frequency of stimuli, but the potentiation 30 sec after the 100-sec staircase was the same at all frequencies.
  • (8) At the end of the corridor is a presentation room, the walls bedaubed with exhortations to “Never, Never, Never Give Up”; up another staircase is a run of seminar rooms, in one of which a class of fledgling baristas are learning their trade.
  • (9) These abnormalities of the staircase phenomenon disclose disorders of the contractile function of the examined muscle.
  • (10) Detection thresholds for phenylethyl alcohol were measured separately in each nostril using a forced-choice staircase procedure.
  • (11) Second, in looking up the staircase on the 1.00 lattice plane we see that the stereocilia are ordered into parallel rows.
  • (12) We measured 73.5% correct just noticeable differences (JNDs) in bar orientation with the method of constant stimuli and with a Wetherill and Levitt staircase procedure, using a total of 25 cats.
  • (13) Evidence is reported that indicates that adaptation of the Schroder staircase is affected by attention.
  • (14) After 15 days of treatment followed by 21 days of recovery, the PTD rats showed significant deficits for DNMTS accuracy at retention intervals (RI) that ranged from 3.0 s to 15.0 s, the RIs that produced 75% accuracy on DNMTS in staircase training, and the rate at which a novel radial arm maze task was learned.
  • (15) Some critical remarks on the interpretation of staircase and potentiation phenomena (rabbit heart muscle).
  • (16) However, the direction of the molecules in each layer is slightly twisted relative to the layer below so that multiple layers of molecules stack up to form a helix, a bit like a spiral staircase.
  • (17) The staircase behavior appeared to be due to changes in the initial rate of recovery of the ability to contract.
  • (18) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (19) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
  • (20) May 15, 2014 Morrissey's newfound social networking voice comes as he gears up to release his latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business , featuring almost self-parodic titles such as Earth Is the Loneliest Planet and Staircase at the University.