Elevator
Elevator , noun
[Latin, one who raises up, a deliverer: compare French élévateur.]
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 (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.
4.
A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
5.
(Anatomy) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
6.
(Surgery) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
7.
(Aeronautics) 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.
Collocations (2)
Elevator head or Elevator leg or Elevator boot , the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
Elevator shoes , shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is.