elevator : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: elevator	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for elevator
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elevator n 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 Synonym(s): elevator, lift the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. (A[89]ronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elevator \El"eva`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. [82]l[82]vateur.] One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. (b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. {Elevator* head}, {leg}, [and] {boot}, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.