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
more about elevator
browse words by letter
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
or search
thesauri
dictionary
search words
|
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
|
