elevator

Plural: elevators

Noun

• A machine for lifting or lowering people or things between floors.
• 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
• Anything that raises or uplifts.
• A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.
• A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
• A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
• A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
• Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
• A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

Verb

• To move in an elevator.

Examples

• He elevatored up to the third floor.
• The EL of ELEVATOR made a perfect hook for his existing word, raising his score like an actual lift.

Synonyms

lift