elevator

el·eva·tor (el′ə vāt′ər)

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

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

Machine for lifting
lift, escalator, conveyor, endless belt, endless chain, buckets, elevator stack, chairlift, aerial tramway, passenger elevator, freight elevator, automatic elevator, hoist, dumbwaiter, chute.
A building handling grain
grain elevator, bin, storage plant, shipping point, granary, cooperative elevator, silo; see also storehouse.

Converse of subject

serve: Rooms are distributed on 6 floors, served by an elevator.

Converse of object

fix: Carr told you to have that elevator fixed before it was used again!
ride: Inside the room is " Secret Key 2. " Get out of the room and ride the elevator up to the top.
enter: Two young men and a woman entered the elevator with them, causing the confined space to become very crowded.

Adjective modifier

idiotic: I'm stuck in an idiotic elevator at 1008-1/2 Fifth Avenue.
13th: He likes the spoken word tracks, and the fact I remember 13th Floor Elevators - or was that Stephen?
express: Located on the 55th floor of the Palms Hotel the only way to reach this bar is via express elevator.
fast: Toshiba has provided the world's fastest elevators in the world's tallest building, the Taipei Financial Center.

Modifies a noun

shaft: The magnetic system is inside the walls of the elevator shaft, there are no normal electrical controls.
pitch: Have you honed your skills at " elevator pitches " ?
shoe: The lightweight cork used to raise ensures that elevator shoes weigh little more than normal footwear.
door: Every time the elevator doors opened, I expected to see a familiar face, the answer to the puzzle.
ride: A visit to the museum begins with an elevator ride to the top of the atrium.
operator: While in New York he worked as an elevator operator, a porter and a waiter.

Noun used with modifier

discotheque: Running the gop machines royal caribbean explorer of the sea discotheques elevators.
grain: The ' Grace Harwar ' alongside the grain elevator of the Rank Premier Mill at the Royal Victoria Dock in July 1935.
bucket: Bucket elevators move the " batch " into hoppers above the furnaces, from where the material is gravity fed into them.
orchestra: A new orchestra elevator provides the Dome with greater flexibility than ever before.
freight: I found a file cabinet at the freight elevator waiting to be thrown out in the garbage.
glass: Take a ride down the cliff in the glass elevator.

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