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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun elevator has 2 senses
- elevator(n = noun.artifact) lift - 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; is a part of building, edifice
- elevator(n = noun.artifact) - the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend; is a kind of aerofoil, airfoil, control surface, surface
has parts: car, elevator car
has particulars: dumbwaiter, food elevator, freight elevator, service elevator, paternoster
is a kind of lifting device
Derived form verb elevate2
is a part of horizontal tail
CIDE DICTIONARY
elevator, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur.].
- One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A cage or platform (called an elevator
car ) 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 alift ; the cage or platform itself. [1913 Webster] - A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [1913 Webster]
- A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [1913 Webster]
- An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
elevator, n.
1 a hoisting machine.
2 Aeron. the movable part of a tailplane for changing the pitch of an aircraft.
3 US a = LIFT n. 3. b a place for lifting and storing quantities of grain.
4 that which elevates, esp. a muscle that raises a limb.
1 a hoisting machine.
2 Aeron. the movable part of a tailplane for changing the pitch of an aircraft.
3 US a = LIFT n. 3. b a place for lifting and storing quantities of grain.
4 that which elevates, esp. a muscle that raises a limb.
Etymology
mod.L (as ELEVATE)
ROGET THESAURUS
elevator
Elevation
N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
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