elevator

elevate +‎ -or

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛləveɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.ə.veɪ.tɚ/

elevator (plural elevators)

1. Anything that raises or uplifts.
   • 1902, Life (volume 39, page 559)

     And then the foaming flagons raised on high, with that best of all beverages, that elevator of spirits, that foaming sunshine, that grand and glorious brew of ale.

2. (US) A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods.
3. A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator)
4. (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
5. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
6. (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
7. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

• (permanent construction): lift (British English; Australian English)

• elevon
• elevator music
• elevator pitch
• someone's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

• overlate

English grain elevator.

elevator

1. elevator, grain elevator.

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From English elevator.

elevator c (singular definite elevatoren, plural indefinite elevatorer)

1. lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)

ēlevātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ēlevō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ēlevō

• elevator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

elevator c

1. a conveyor, an elevator (various technical installations for lifting stuff)

• elevatorskopa

• elevator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)