elevator

From elevate + -or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛləˌveɪtə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛləveɪtə(ɹ)

elevator (plural elevators)

1. Anything that raises or uplifts.
   • 1902, Life, volume 39, page 559:

     And then the foaming flagons raised on high, with that best of all beverages, that elevator of spirits, that foaming sunshine, that grand and glorious brew of ale.

   • 1962 May, “Talking of Trains: Portable grain elevators at E.R. stations”, in Modern Railways, page 302, photo caption:

     Bulk loading of grain in progress from road to rail at Biggleswade using a portable elevator.

2. (Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) 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.

   Synonym: (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India) lift

3. (US) A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
   • 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:

     The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.

   • 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, page 28:

     [W]hen a group of farmers started a co-op elevator, he invested in it, and persuaded business friends to do the same.

4. (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
5. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
6. (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
7. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

• → Hawaiian: ʻeleweka
• → Japanese: エレベーター
• → Korean: 엘리베이터 (ellibeiteo)

elevator (third-person singular simple present elevators, present participle elevatoring, simple past and past participle elevatored)

1. (informal, intransitive) To move in an elevator.

   He elevatored up to the third floor.

• overlate

English grain elevator.

elevator

1. elevator, grain elevator.

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From American English elevator.

elevator c (singular definite elevatoren, plural indefinite elevatorer)

1. lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)

Internationalism

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /eleˈvator/ [e.leˈfa.t̪ɔr]
• Rhymes: -ator
• Syllabification: e‧le‧va‧tor

elevator (plural elevator-elevator)

1. elevator
   1. 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.

      Synonym: lift

   2. (aeronautics, aviation) a control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.

      Synonyms: kemudi angkat, kemudi tukik

• “elevator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ēlevātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēlevō

• “elevator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from French élévateur or German Elevator.

elevator n (plural elevatoare)

1. elevator

elevator c

1. a conveyor, an elevator (various technical installations for lifting stuff)

   Hypernym: lastbärare

False friend with elevator in the sense of "mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building". For that meaning, see hiss.

• elevatorskopa

• “elevator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)