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elevator
has definitions from the field of transportation
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[ noun ] 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
Synonyms Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)He waited until they were inside the elevator and then said : `` Now what do we do '' ? (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)`` I 've never done this before '' , they always said , waiting for the elevator in the hotel corridor . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Not long_ago , I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio_City ; he was talking to himself thirteen to the dozen and smoking two cigars at_once , clearly a man in_extremis . Related terms lifting_device paternoster freight_elevator dumbwaiter building car raise |
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[ noun ] (transportation) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
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