Crossword clues for elevator
elevator
- About to reveal what helps Americans get to the top
- Tea lover organised lift
- It has its ups and downs
- Way to get to the top
- Passenger lift
- Alternative to stairs
- Place for grain
- ____ music
- Where to hear Muzak
- Way to get to the top, perhaps
- Skyscraper transport
- One way to reach new heights
- Box with buttons
- Aerosmith "Love in an ___"
- What one taking a flight doesn't use?
- Vertical shuttle
- Story line?
- Steps alternative
- Special kind of shoe
- Pined-for feature in a walk-up
- One way to the top at the office
- Means of avoiding flights
- Lift in a building
- Kind of music or pitch
- It rises inside a high-rise
- High-rise need
- Car in a shaft
- Brit's lift
- Type of music
- Lifting device
- Upwardly mobile one?
- Place to put buttons
- One way to get up in the world?
- [See circles]
- With 38-Down, one who may give you a lift
- Kind of car commonly seen in cities
- 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
- The airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
- To the British, this is a lift
- Kind of shoe
- Londoner's lift
- Grain _____
- Stairs alternative
- Grain warehouse
- Otis product
- Farmer's grain ___
- Follower of grain or freight
- Kind of 24 Across
- European travel accident involves old lift
- One way of getting to the top in say, Washington
- Struggling to reveal what makes flight unnecessary
- Something to raise European tax covered by the Spanish gold
- Lift veto Real violated
- Lift to reveal cracks
- Lift a lever to reset
- Resort to a lever to provide lift
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.]
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
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.
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.
A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
(Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
(Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
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(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
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
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
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 or descend
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
- 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
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 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 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 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" 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 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 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" 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 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 is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
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.