elevator

IPA: ˈɛɫʌveɪtɝ

Anything that raises or uplifts.
(Canada, US, Australia) 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.
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
(anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

Examples of "elevator" in Sentences

Osaka confuses the escalator with the elevator.
Jerry speeds to the elevator in the refrigerator.
The elevator was in repletion so some people had to walk on the stairs.
I've got what they call the elevator speech down in several variations.
Grain elevator, gas station and greasy spoon (with enormous pancakes!) is about it.
(The building's stark hallways and elevator is where the large majority of this story takes place.)
We have an elevator at the office here and in the elevator is a “service” that goes by the very Phildickian name The Captivate Network.
Sunsats will only be economical with a breakthrough in cheap access to space however, and the space elevator is one of the only options for that.
And, as Gerald Stanley Lee says, the elevator is that democratic device that gives to all men the privilege of first floors though they be twenty stories above the ground.
Thus the term elevator speech: it’s designed to be short enough to deliver between floors when a happy accident places you and the agent of your dreams together in the same lift.
Uhh, on second thought, Keight Vs plan of just using rockets a lot and later doing a space elevator is better than a new shuttle style RLV assuming that space elavators can work.
Father Tim (?) was quite apologetic about the main elevator being out, though even then I'm not sure if that would've removed all the doors needing opening between 4th and 6th. * sigh*