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Elevator   /ˈɛləvˌeɪtər/   Listen
noun
Elevator  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
2.
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.
3.
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 a lift; the cage or platform itself.
4.
A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
5.
(Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
6.
(Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
7.
(Aeronautics) 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.
Elevator head, Elevator leg, and Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is.





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"Elevator" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he and Triffitt went down in the elevator, but when they had reached the ground floor he took the reporter's arm again, and as they crossed the entrance hall ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... of looking at the matter, and I own that it made our duty a trifle hard. But George's mind, when once made up, was persistent to the point of obstinacy, and while he was yet talking he led me out of the room and down the hall to the elevator. ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... housed the Psychodeviant Division. As he stood in the rising elevator, Houston wondered wryly if the number 13 was good luck or bad in ...
— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
... at the bachelor apartment house between Sixth and Seventh Avenues where he and Eastman lived, and they went up in the elevator together. They were still talking when the lift stopped at Cavenaugh's floor, and Eastman stepped out with him and walked down the hall, finishing his sentence while Cavenaugh found his latch-key. When he opened the door, a wave of fresh cigarette smoke greeted them. Cavenaugh ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... established order they are in spirit. When the owners of the farms of North Dakota realized that their own returns on the harvests were diverted in the marketing of their grain, they combined for protection against the grain exchanges and the elevator trusts. While developing their movement they discovered that the natural alliance for their organization to make was with the men who were involved with them in the production of grain. And as the farmers have accepted the harvesters as partners they have formed ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot


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