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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elevator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elevator music
mine/elevator/ventilation etc shaft
▪ a 300-foot elevator shaft
rode the elevator
▪ He rode the elevator down to the first floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
door
▪ Creed and McGowan were already waiting in front of the elevator doors.
▪ Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.
▪ The elevator door on the first floor was ornamental iron lace.
grain
▪ The roar of the grain elevators and the slap of timbers rent the sunlit air.
▪ There used to be a grain elevator, but it closed.
▪ Two associated pneumatic grain elevators with a combined discharge rate of 400 tons per hour were completed soon after.
▪ Most of the commingled corn is stored in grain elevators, said John Wichtrich, general manager for Aventis CropScience.
operator
▪ He worked only part-time, an elevator operator, because the country was awash in college graduates.
▪ Desperate and disenchanted, she flees to Tulsa where she works as a department store elevator operator.
▪ The elevator operators know his habits and are holding back the door of a car.
■ VERB
ride
▪ They rode up in the elevator again.
▪ You see them crossing hallways and riding in elevators.
▪ She smiled to herself imagining what it would be like to ride in an elevator fifty stories just to go to bed.
▪ A compulsion to ride in glass elevators in Marriott hotels.
▪ Quinn pushed the door open, walked through the lobby, and rode the elevator to the eleventh floor.
step
▪ As she stepped into the humming elevator, Chesarynth realized that the other doors were holograms for security.
▪ Guests step off the elevator into dimly lit halls, a dubious signature of Starckdesigned hotels.
▪ He stepped into a crowded elevator.
▪ As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her, she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance.
▪ He stepped on to the elevator, and the doors closed in front of him before Wyatt remembered to get on with him.
▪ He stepped into his private elevator, and pressed the button for the eighteenth floor.
take
▪ He took the service elevator down to the parking-lot and got into his car.
▪ To get to his broadcast location he was forced to take the freight elevator.
▪ Renwick followed slowly, gave her time to take the elevator before he passed the reception desk.
▪ They played for another hour, mostly losing, then took the elevator up to the eighth floor.
▪ The prisoners were taken down in the elevator one at a time.
▪ We took the elevator to the sixth floor and removed our shoes at the door.
▪ He shaved, got dressed and took the elevator to the breakfast-room.
▪ We said good night and took the elevator back down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An old plough disc forms a foot and oil comes from the harvester's elevator motor drive.
▪ Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude, it carried on, sinking fast.
▪ He backed away towards the nook beside the elevator, where he kept his gun, but the stranger was too quick.
▪ I climb aboard Moosha and suddenly get the sensation that the express elevator is going right through the roof.
▪ I rushed to the elevator and down to the art gallery, dreading that...
▪ It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
▪ People were trapped in elevators, businesses closed early, and schools sent students home.
▪ You just walk down this corridor and around these elevators to the bank on the far side.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elevator

Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.]

  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. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

  6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

  7. (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.

    Elevator head, Elevator leg, & Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [1913 Webster]

    Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [PJC]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elevator

1640s, originally of muscles which raise a part of the body, from Latin elevator "one who raises up," agent noun from past participle stem of elevare (see elevate). As a name for a mechanical lift (originally for grain) attested from 1787. Elevator music is attested by 1963. Elevator as a lift for shoes is from 1940.

Wiktionary
elevator

n. 1 (context US English) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically. 2 A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (''grain elevator'') 3 (context aeronautics English) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine. 4 Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller. 5 A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone. 6 (context anatomy English) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.

WordNet
elevator
  1. 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]

  2. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend

Wikipedia
Elevator (disambiguation)

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
  • Elevator (aeronautics), a control surface of an airplane used to control its attitude in pitch
  • Grain elevator, a structure for storing grain safely above ground level
  • Elevator, a tool used in dental extractions to loosen teeth
Elevator (aeronautics)

Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the lift of the wing. The elevators are usually hinged to the tailplane or horizontal stabilizer. They may be the only pitch control surface present, sometimes located at front (early airplanes) or integrated into a rear "all-moving tailplane" also called a slab elevator or stabilator.

Elevator (band)

Elevator is a band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Started in 1994 as Elevator To Hell, a solo outlet for Eric's Trip lead man Rick White, the project eventually grew to include Eric's Trip drummer Mark Gaudet and White's ex-wife Tara on bass and, for a short while, Ron Bates of Orange Glass as a fourth member. Dallas Good of The Sadies joined the band for their most recent studio LP and live performances from around this time. The band mainly produces haunting, lo-fi psychedelia.

Elevator (Hot Hot Heat album)

Elevator is Hot Hot Heat's second studio album, released on April 4, 2005 (see 2005 in music) internationally and a day later in the United States. It ranked #57 in Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005.

Elevator (Bay City Rollers album)

Elevator is a 1979 rock album by the Bay City Rollers. Having replaced longtime lead singer Les McKeown with Duncan Faure, the group shortened their name to simply The Rollers, and pursued a more rocking, power-pop sound than their previous work.

The album, released by Arista, was poorly received. Neither the album itself or any single releases would hit the charts.

The album was reissued on CD in 2008, with no bonus cuts however.

Elevator (Flo Rida song)

"Elevator" is Flo Rida's overall second single (after " Low", which was from the soundtrack of the 2008 movie Step Up 2: The Streets), and the first single from Flo Rida's debut album Mail on Sunday. It was produced by Timbaland, who also features on the track. The piano intro features a melody based on the Halloween theme by John Carpenter and the second verse imitates the chorus of "The Donque Song" by will.i.am featuring Snoop Dogg. The song features Timbaland's signature percussion and vocals, as well as former Beatclub recording artist Kiley Dean on the background vocals. The song is similar in structure, key, and rhythm to the Timbaland-produced " 4 Minutes" by Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. The song was featured in the plot for the episode "Desperately Seeking Serena" of teen drama Gossip Girl.

Elevator (Room 2012 album)

Elevator is the debut album of Room2012. It was released on 14 December 2007 and peaked at number seven on the German albums chart. It was the first debut album of a Popstars band not peaking at number one in Germany.

Elevator (2008 film)

Elevator is a Romanian independent film directed by George Dorobanțu and written by Gabriel Pintilei. The screenplay adapts Pintilei's own 2004 stageplay "Elevator", which had the premise inspired by a real story that took place in London in 2002. Both the movie and the play won several national and international awards.

Elevator (Eminem song)

"Elevator" is a song by American rapper Eminem, featured on his 2009 album Relapse: Refill, the re-release of his album Relapse. "Elevator" was the second promotional single released on December 15, released the same day as " Hell Breaks Loose". On the issue of January 2, 2010, "Elevator" debuted at #67 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Elevator (2011 film)

Elevator is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Stig Svendsen. It follows the struggles and conflicts of nine strangers trapped in a Wall Street elevator 49 floors above Manhattan on the way to a company party. One of the group has a bomb. The film's events follow the group's attempts to escape, with racism, greed and revenge playing key elements as they all fight to survive.

Elevator (1995 film)

Elevator is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Elevator

An elevator ( US and Canada) or lift ( UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure. Elevators are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables or counterweight systems like a hoist, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston like a jack.

In agriculture and manufacturing, an elevator is any type of conveyor device used to lift materials in a continuous stream into bins or silos. Several types exist, such as the chain and bucket bucket elevator, grain auger screw conveyor using the principle of Archimedes' screw, or the chain and paddles or forks of hay elevators.

Languages other than English may have loanwords based on either elevator or lift.

Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new multistory buildings, especially where wheelchair ramps would be impractical.

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.