[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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