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Definition of Elevator

1. Noun. Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building.

2. Noun. The airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend.

Definition of Elevator

1. n. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

2. n. A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.

Definition of Elevator

1. Noun. (American English) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically. ¹

2. Noun. A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (''grain elevator'') ¹

3. Noun. A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine. ¹

4. Noun. Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Elevator

1. one that elevates [n -S] - See also: elevates

Medical Definition of Elevator

1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc, for conveying persons, goods, etc, to or from different floors or levels; called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. Elevator head, leg, and boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. Origin: L, one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. Elevateur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elevator

eleuthra bark elev. elevatable elevate elevated elevated hemidiaphragm elevated railroad elevated railway elevatedness elevateds

elevates elevating elevation elevational elevations elevator (current term) elevator authority elevator boy elevator car elevator disease

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