noun

1. a person or thing that raises or lifts up
2. ☆ a platform, cage, or boxlike structure suspended by motor-operated cables, for hoisting or lowering people or things, as in a building or mine
3. ☆ a machine, usually consisting of buckets or scoops fastened to an endless belt or chain, for hoisting grain, etc., as in a warehouse
4. ☆ grain elevator
5. a pilot-controlled airfoil attached to the trailing edge of the tail section's horizontal stabilizers, used to make an aircraft go up or down and to control pitching

Etymology: LL(Ec), one who raises up, a deliverer: see elevate