Thesaurus: elevator

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1. n. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
2. n. 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. n. 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.
4. n. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
5. n. A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
6. n. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
7. n. 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
8. n. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
9. 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, and boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
10. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as:(a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with aseries of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loftfor storage.(b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel,warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or fromdifferent floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage orplatform itself.(c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.(d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as theleg or the eye.(e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.Elevator head, leg, and boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley,belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
11. n:100 n. 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 n. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend