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elevator |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. (A["e]ronautics) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elevator \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elevator n 1: 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 control surface on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
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