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nounlifting 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
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Definition that contains elevator
- stick a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- shaft a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- otis United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
- joystick a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- dumbwaiter a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another
- liftman a man employed to operate an elevator
- elevator girl a girl employed to operate an elevator
- elevator shaft a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor
- walk-up apartment an apartment in a building without an elevator
- high-rise used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall