Elevator

·noun One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

II. Elevator ·noun An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

III. Elevator ·noun A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

IV. Elevator ·noun A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

V. Elevator ·noun A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

VI. Elevator ·add. ·noun A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.

VII. Elevator ·noun A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, ·etc., for conveying persons, goods, ·etc., to or from different floors or levels;

— called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.