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Elevator

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. Synonym: lift.

The airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend.

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"Elevator" Quotes from Famous Books

... the waiter replied. And he darted to the elevator to forestall the two women. But they ignored him, as, chattering without heed, they set to mount the second flight. ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... They met and both started in surprise, her eyes falling to his travelling-bag, and then lifting to his face in bewilderment. He checked his hurried flight and she came quite close to him. The lights in the hall were dim and the elevator car had dropped to ...

— The Purple Parasol • George Barr McCutcheon

... was dark. The man and boy walked down to the elevator, and in a moment were swishing down to the dark ...

— Infinite Intruder • Alan Edward Nourse

... do without safety pins? Is it not odd to think, looking about us on our fellowmen (bearded realtors, ejaculating poets, plump and ruddy policemen, even the cheerful dusky creature who runs the elevator and whistles "Oh, What a Pal Was Mary" as the clock draws near 6 P. M.)—all these were first housed and swaddled and made seemly with a paper of safety pins. How is it that the inventor who first conferred ...

— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley

... entrance-hall with panelled paintings and a double-staircase with a snow-white carpet, about which I had read in the newspapers that it was woven in one piece, and had cost an incredible sum. One did not have to profane it with his feet, as there was an elevator provided. ...

— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

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