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Elevator
An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure. Elevators are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems like a hoist, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston like a jack.
In agriculture and manufacturing, an elevator is any type of conveyor device used to lift materials in a continuous stream into bins or silos. Several types exist, such as the chain and bucket elevator, grain auger screw conveyor using the principle of Archimedes’ screw, or the chain and paddles or forks of hay elevators. Languages other than English may have loanwords based on either elevator or lift. Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new multistory buildings, especially where wheelchair ramps would be impractical.
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Elevator (noun)
A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods.
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Elevator (noun)
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator)
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Elevator (noun)
A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
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Elevator (noun)
A dental instrument used to pry up (“elevate”) teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
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Elevator (noun)
Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
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Elevator (noun)
A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
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Lift (verb)
To raise or rise.
“The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.”
“You never lift a finger to help me!”
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Lift (verb)
To steal.
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Lift (verb)
To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
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Lift (verb)
To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
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Lift (verb)
to cause to move upwards.
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Lift (verb)
To lift weights; to weight-lift.
“She lifts twice a week at the gym.”
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Lift (verb)
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
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Lift (verb)
To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
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Lift (verb)
To bear; to support.
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Lift (verb)
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
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Lift (verb)
To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
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Lift (verb)
To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
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Lift (noun)
An act of lifting or raising.
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Lift (noun)
The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
“He gave me a lift to the bus station.”
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Lift (noun)
Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
“Take the lift to the fourth floor.”
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Lift (noun)
An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
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Lift (noun)
the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
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Lift (noun)
A thief.
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Lift (noun)
The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
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Lift (noun)
Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
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Lift (noun)
An improvement in mood.
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Lift (noun)
The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
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Lift (noun)
A rise; a degree of elevation.
“the lift of a lock in canals”
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Lift (noun)
A lift gate.
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Lift (noun)
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
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Lift (noun)
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
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Lift (noun)
(horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
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Lift (noun)
Air.
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Lift (noun)
The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.