elevator

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  1. noun A platform or an enclosure raised and lowered in a vertical shaft to transport people or freight.
  2. noun The enclosure or platform with its operating equipment, motor, cables, and accessories.
  3. noun A movable control surface, usually attached to the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft, that is used to produce motion up or down.
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  • Thankfully, the elevator was already decelerating as it reached the casino floor. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • Maigret walked past him without answering and started up the stairs, since the elevator was at one of the other floors. —  Maigret Hesitates—96—Georges Simenon
  • "When they get up here, we'll have a little reception party," he rumbled But the man who stumbled out of the elevator was the intern who drove the ambulance which took prisoners to Doc Savage's upstate college. —  108 - Men of Fear
  • The elevator was able to contain an infinite number of buttons because the walls of the elevator at Paradox Central are negatively curved, and therefore the inside of the elevator is larger than the building that contains it. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • He ran awkwardly for the elevator, his boots slapping the concrete, then climbed inside the elevator cage and rode it all the way to the top, nervously watching the ground drop farther and farther away. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
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  1. = French élévateur = Spanish elevador = Italian elevatore, from Late Latin elevator, one who raises up, a deliverer, from Latin elevare, lift up: see elevate.
 

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/ˈɛləveɪtər/
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