Escalating - English meaning

noun

A small coloured rubber bag that is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.

Usage examples:

The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

verb

A small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.

Usage examples:

The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

noun

A small, thin rubber bag that you blow air into or fill with a light gas until it is round in shape, used for decoration, as a children's toy, or for other purposes such as medical treatment or scientific research

Usage examples:

We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party., angioplasty is a medical proced…

verb

Go or come up a (slope or staircase); ascend.

Usage examples:

We began to climb the hill

noun

An ascent, especially of a mountain or hill, by climbing.

Usage examples:

This walk involves a long moorland climb

verb

Go up or advance

idiom

To rise to a very high level

Usage examples:

Prices have gone through the roof., when i was expelled from school, my parents went through the ro…

phrasal verb

Move upward

noun

The quality of being energetic, determined, and enthusiastic

Usage examples:

We need someone with real get-up-and-go to run this office.

verb

Climb up (stairs, a hill, or other rising surface).

Usage examples:

He mounted the steps

noun

A backing or setting on which a photograph, gem, or work of art is set for display.

Usage examples:

A decorated photograph mount

noun

A mountain or hill (archaic except in place names).

Usage examples:

Mount etna

noun

A cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal.

Usage examples:

The famed brooklyn amusement park is a recurring motif in these paintings that feature carousel hor…

verb

(of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly.

Usage examples:

Sales of milk in supermarkets are rocketing

noun

An edible mediterranean plant of the cabbage family, whose leaves are eaten in salads.

noun

A rocket designed to explode high in the air as a signal or firework.

Usage examples:

The crowd at st heliers bay was a rowdy bunch that year, with music, alcohol, fireworks, skyrockets…

verb

(of a price, rate, or amount) increase very steeply or rapidly.

Usage examples:

The cost of the welfare system has skyrocketed

verb

(esp. of amounts) to rise extremely quickly

Usage examples:

The value of their business skyrocketed last year.

verb

Fly or rise high in the air.

Usage examples:

The bird spread its wings and soared into the air

verb

To increase or go up quickly to a high level

Usage examples:

Temperatures/prices soared, my spirits soared when i heard the good news., planes soared overhead.,…

verb

To increase quickly in amount, number, value, or level

Usage examples:

Corn, soybean, and wheat prices all soared this year., the organic industry's sales are soaring., a…

adjective

Winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either round a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone.

Usage examples:

A spiral pattern

noun

A spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object.

Usage examples:

A spiral of smoke

verb

Move in a spiral course.

Usage examples:

A wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees

noun

A sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide.

Usage examples:

Flooding caused by tidal surges

verb

(of a crowd or a natural force) move suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.

Usage examples:

The journalists surged forward

noun

A sudden and great increase

Usage examples:

A surge in sales, a surge in the stock market, the young american’s victory touched off a surge of …