elevator

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noun

1. 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 (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
lift
• Derivationally related forms:
lift (for: lift), elevate
• Hypernyms:
lifting device
• Hyponyms:
dumbwaiter, food elevator, freight elevator, service elevator, paternoster
• Part Holonyms:
building, edifice
• Part Meronyms:
car, elevator car
2. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
• Hypernyms:
airfoil, aerofoil, control surface, surface
• Part Holonyms:
horizontal tail