Definitions for elevator

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elevator el·e·va·tor

Spelling: [el-uh-vey-ter]

IPA: /ˈɛl əˌveɪ tər/

Elevator is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in elevator (aeelortv).

Definitions for elevator

noun

1. a person or thing that elevates or raises.
2. a moving platform or cage for carrying passengers or freight from one level to another, as in a building.
3. any of various mechanical devices for raising objects or materials.
4. a building in which grain is stored and handled by means of mechanical elevator and conveyor devices.
5. Aeronautics. a hinged horizontal surface on an airplane or the like, used to control the longitudinal inclination and usually placed at the tail end of the fuselage.
6. elevator shoe.

Origin of elevator

1640-50; Late Latin ēlevātor, equivalent to ēlevā(re) (see elevate) + -tor -tor

Examples for elevator

Det. Johnson left in an elevator and I found myself alone in the building, save two women in the dispatch center.

The machine from elevator to tail plane bristles in original points.

If it was a case for her, the elevator would go up to the operating-room.

Yesterday, as I went up and down in the elevator, I could see men working there.

As I walked toward the elevator, I was painfully conscious of two ideas.

Once our vehicle entered an elevator and was let down a brief distance.

At that meeting, Rice told the Commissioner that he had hit Mrs. Rice in the elevator.

The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.

Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

The crowd is around the foot of the staircase waiting for the elevator.