1. elevator(n = noun.artifact) lift - 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;
is a kind of lifting device
is a part of building, edifice
has parts: car, elevator car
has particulars: dumbwaiter, food elevator, freight elevator, service elevator, paternoster
Derived form verb elevate2
2. elevator(n = noun.artifact) - the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend;
is a kind of aerofoil, airfoil, control surface, surface
is a part of horizontal tail
1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
3. A cage or platform (called an elevator
4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [1913 Webster]
5. A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [1913 Webster]
6. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [1913 Webster]
7. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
elevator, n.
1 a hoisting machine.
2 Aeron. the movable part of a tailplane for changing the pitch of an aircraft.
3 US a = LIFT n. 3. b a place for lifting and storing quantities of grain.
4 that which elevates, esp. a muscle that raises a limb.
Etymology:
mod.L (as ELEVATE)
N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
elevator boy, elevator car, elevator girl, elevator man, elevator operator, elevator shaft, food elevator, freight elevator, service elevator