From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer:
cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.]
1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
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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.
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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.
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4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
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5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body,
as the leg or the eye.
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6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a
bone.
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7. (A["e]ronautics) 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.
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{Elevator head}, {Elevator leg}, & {Elevator boot}, the boxes
in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley,
respectively, run in a grain elevator. [1913 Webster]
{Elevator shoes}, shoes having unusually thick soles and
heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or
she actually is. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elevator
n 1: 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 [syn: {elevator}, {lift}]
2: the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it
ascend or descend
From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]:
elevator
elevator; lift
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