Staircase

0 A stair is one step. 02br
02br
00The staircase is the whole 'flight' of stairs. 02br
02br
00'Go and sit on the bottom stair until you can behave yourself!' 02br
02br
00'Go upstairs until I tell you to come down!' 0-

0 Hi Nona, 02br
02br
00Thanks. 02br
02br
00A stair is one step. ----- true 02br
00Per dictionary, A stair can also mean a set of stairs. e.g. He climbed the wooden stair and knocked on his grandfather's door. Can I restate the example as 'he climbed the wooden staircase and....' without changing its meaning? 02br
02br
00The

0 You could imagine that the stairs are "encased" in a wood construction, or in a sort of cage. 02br
00Funny, because in French, we say "une volée" of stairs, which corresponds more or less to the "flight"; a "cage d'escalier" ("staircage") corresponds to all the stairs between 2 floors. 0-

0 Hi pieanne, 02br
02br
00case ----> cage 02br
00cage ----> bird 02br
00bird -----> flight 02br
02br
00-------------------- 02br
00case ------> flight 02br
02br
02br
00How strange or crazy the logic is!!! 02br
02br
00Very, very funny. 02br
02br


0 Yes, quite right! Very poetic too... 02br
00It shows that human mind - or logic - is stronger than the different languages. 0-

0 Hi, Mean, 02br
02br
00Like your progression from 'case' to 'flight' 02br
02br
00I think a 'staircase' is one which is enclosed in some way, usually by having a wall on at least one side. A staircase also usually has a bannister, ie a fixed bar at the side to hold on to. 0-