Definition of Elevator

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Elevator

One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

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.

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.

A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

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.

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Elevator Quotations

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Maria Callas

Never take an elevator in city hall.
Harvey Milk

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
Major Owens

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
Michael Stipe

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
Kevin Spacey

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
Geena Davis

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Michael Ondaatje

It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
Michael Zaslow

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle

Elevator Translations

elevator in Afrikaans is hyser
elevator in Danish is elevator
elevator in Dutch is lift
elevator in French is ascenseur
elevator in German is Fahrstuhl {m}, Aufzug {m}
elevator in Italian is ascensore, elevatore
elevator in Norwegian is heis
elevator in Portuguese is elevador, ascensor
elevator in Spanish is ascensor, cscensor, cscensor
elevator in Swedish is hiss

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