Search for crossword answers and clues
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
Answer for the clue "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 letters:
elevator
Alternative clues for the word elevator
Word definitions for elevator in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An elevator (also called a lift ) is a device for the vertical movement of goods or people, typically within a building. Elevator(s) or The Elevator may also refer to: Elevators (drilling rig) , a device used for lifting the drill string on a drilling rig ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: lift ] the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend ...
Usage examples of elevator.
Had it been Doc or one of his aids using the elevator, they would have pressed a hidden button in the sub-basement level.
Frozen in place like a panicked rabbit, Aisling held her breath, then retreated, and willed her body to shrink back into the unforgiving elevator wall.
Followed by Atlee and Pelwin, who were silent, and carting the many packages, Sandersham headed for the elevator, his lips set tight, his eyes staring ahead as though they were picturing the future.
Wildly, Atlee darted from the closet and made for the elevators, at the very moment when The Shadow was most furiously engaged.
Two hours later John Winthrop Blagden proceeded through the lobby of Bethesda Naval Hospital, up the elevator, and directly to the room specified for him.
Once we were inside the hotel elevator, Betsey and I kissed for the first time and it was gentle and sweet.
Now he and the nurse wheeled the biomembrane toward a man-made opening beyond which, Billy assumed, an elevator waited.
Peabody stepped with Eve and a uniformed guard into a bombproof elevator.
She had got two things wrong: there was no elevator boy, lousy or otherwise-, and the wine bottle, probably bolstered by a thick cushion of Brie, had given no sound of breaking.
Harod almost screamed as the machine dropped like a cableless elevator.
At the same instant a gust of wind tried to toss them upside down while the bottom seemed to disappear as they dropped two hundred feet like a cableless elevator.
Leaning against the bed, Sam closed and latched the carpetbag and walked, using his canes to support himself, down the ward and out to the elevator.
He was looking past her and Diane saw why, immediately after she willingly let Cardiff sidle her into an elevator.
She moved forward mechanically from the elevator as Cardiff used the gun muzzle as a persuader.
Then Diane was staring in the same direction as Cardiff, not toward the main door of the room, but toward another that must have been reachable by a side route from the elevator.