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elevator

About 4.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Anything that raises or uplifts.
  2. noun A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.
  3. noun A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
  4. noun A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
  5. noun A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
  6. noun Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
  7. noun A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
  8. verb To move in an elevator.
    He elevatored up to the third floor.

Similar words

lift escalator riser elevation overhead lifter hoist storage kneeling installation

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Word family

elevators

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