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elevator
The definition of an elevator is a lifting device usually made up of cables and a compartment that moves people or items up and down along a shaft.
(noun)An example of an elevator is an electronic lifting device in a hotel located in a shaft and moving up and down on cables to get you from the first floor to the tenth floor.
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See elevator in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a person or thing that raises or lifts up
- ☆ a platform, cage, or boxlike structure suspended by motor-operated cables, for hoisting or lowering people or things, as in a building or mine
- ☆ a machine, usually consisting of buckets or scoops fastened to an endless belt or chain, for hoisting grain, etc., as in a warehouse
- ☆ grain elevator
- 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
Origin: LL(Ec), one who raises up, a deliverer: see elevate
See elevator in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A platform or an enclosure raised and lowered in a vertical shaft to transport people or freight.b. The enclosure or platform with its operating equipment, motor, cables, and accessories.
- A movable control surface, usually attached to the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft, that is used to produce motion up or down.
- A mechanism, often with buckets or scoops attached to a conveyor, used for hoisting materials.
- A granary equipped with devices for hoisting and discharging grain.
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