Found 2 hits - Term: elevator, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elevator \el"eva`tor\, n. l., one who raises up, a deliverer:
cf. f. 'el'evateur.
1. one who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
4. a building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
1913 webster
5. anat. a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body,
as the leg or the eye.
1913 webster
6. surg. an instrument for raising a depressed portion of a
bone.
1913 webster
7. a"eronautics 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.
webster 1913 suppl.
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
see also:
lift elevator head elevator leg elevator boot elevator shoes
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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: lift
2: the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it
ascend or descend
see also:
lift
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