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Elevator

noun

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. Synonym: lift.

The airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend.

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"Elevator" Quotes from Famous Books

... as he and Triffitt went down in the elevator, but when they had reached the ground floor he took the reporter's arm again, and as they crossed the entrance hall ...

— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... of the trained nurse distracted Pierre for a few moments. She went past him in her gray cloak, very quiet and earnest, and the elevator lifted her out ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

... Sally whispered, in sudden alarm. The elevator jolted to an abrupt halt and the operator swung about ...

— The Calm Man • Frank Belknap Long

... The last hope is gone. The door clangs and you look hopelessly about you at the stupid faces of your fellow passengers. How can people be so clownish? Of course, there is always the chance that the elevator will fall and that you will all be terribly hurt. But that is too much to expect. You dismiss it from your thoughts as too impractical, too visionary. Things don't work out as happily ...

— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

... interests confided to the company's care. At last, after they had been rebuffed by several busy clerks, a uniformed attendant found them and inquired their business. The widow handed to him the card she had received from the probate judge, and the usher at once led them to an elegant little private elevator that shot them upwards through the floors of the bank to the upper story. Here, in a small, heavily rugged room behind a broad mahogany table, they met Mr. John Gardiner, then the "trust officer" of the Washington Trust ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

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