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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



... hat in an elevator if women enter or are already inside. This rule is often ignored ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... it was well worth it when, still in furs and with his snowshoes still strapped to his back, he entered the Gotham building. Such a sensation did he create that he would have been mobbed in another minute had he not dodged into an elevator and said: ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... habitually finds vent in a great litigation, about the year 1870; but only some years later did the states enter upon a determined policy of regulating monopoly prices by law, with the establishment by the Illinois legislature of a tariff for the Chicago elevators. The elevator companies resisted, on the ground that regulation of prices in private business was equivalent to confiscation, and so in 1876 the Supreme Court was dragged into this fiercest of controversies, thereby becoming subject to a stress to which no judiciary ...
— The Theory of Social Revolutions • Brooks Adams
... the square, did you ever get any farther away from the ground than an elevator could take you?" he asked bluntly, when he was finishing his coffee after a ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... top of the wave into the trough, a fall of fourteen or fifteen yards. When we sank like this, it gave one the same feeling as dropping from the twelfth to the ground-floor in an American express elevator, 'as if everything inside you was coming up.' It was so quick that we seemed to be lifted off the deck. We went up and down like this all the afternoon and evening, till during the night the wind gradually dropped and it became ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen


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