meaning of elevator
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 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. A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
6. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
7. 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
Related Words
elevator | elevator boy | elevator car | elevator girl | elevator man | elevator operator | elevator shaft | elevatory |
