a moving platform or cage for carrying passengers or freight from one level to another, as in a building.
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any of various mechanical devices for raising objects or materials.
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a building in which grain is stored and handled by means of mechanical elevator and conveyor devices.
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Aeronautics. a hinged horizontal surface on an airplane or the like, used to control the longitudinal inclination and usually placed at the tail end of the fuselage.
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
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the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
(especially American) a lift or machine for raising persons, goods etc to a higher floor Example: There is no elevator in this shop — you will have to climb the stairs.
El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.] One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: (a) 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. (b) 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. (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. Elevator head, leg, & boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
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