WordNet
n. where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car]
Usage examples of "elevator car".
His arm snapped out into a stiff-arm position, as though fending off a linebacker from Arcola or Rantoul, and the stun gun flew across the elevator car, bounced off the wall, and clattered to the floor.
Then the four travelers crossed the floor, and disappeared into a jetway leading up into the next elevator car.
The elevator car was like an old Amersterdam house, narrow and tall, with a light-filled room at the top, in this case a clear-walled and domed chamber that reminded Frank of the bubble dome of the Ares.
When a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.
The ladder ran along the back wall of the shaft and cleared the elevator car by only twelve inches.
As THE ELEVATOR CAR crept up to the twenty-fourth floor, stickies jammed the long hallway on either side of the shaft.