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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
- horizontal stabiliser the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged
- control stick a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- low-rise used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low
- food elevator a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another