elevator
电梯
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Definitions
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- : a person or thing that elevates or raises.
- : a moving platform or cage for carrying passengers or freight from one level to another, as in a building.
- : any of various mechanical devices for raising objects or materials.
- : a building in which grain is stored and handled by means of mechanical elevator and conveyor devices.
- : Aeronautics. a hinged horizontal surface on an airplane or the like, used to control the longitudinal inclination and usually placed at the tail end of the fuselage.
- : elevator shoe.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Never mind that this particular trip involves a drive of only four miles from home and a short elevator ride to our seats.
They’re willing to pay, but then the elevator’s completely full.
Staircases, elevators, and escalators will be labeled to keep everybody moving in the same direction.
Co-workers do not bump into one another on the elevator or in hallways.
In terms of load times, elevator rides have been cut down significantly, with the option to skip them entirely to return to gameplay as quick as possible.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.
At that meeting, Rice told the Commissioner that he had hit Mrs. Rice in the elevator.
Det. Johnson left in an elevator and I found myself alone in the building, save two women in the dispatch center.
Yesterday, as I went up and down in the elevator, I could see men working there.
They went up in the passenger elevator in the main building of the plant to a sort of glassed-in roof garden.
If therefore he should leave elevator shafts, or hatchways unguarded, he would be clearly liable for the consequences.
Behind him, a lobby lounger moved over to the elevator boy, jerking his chin in Wilson Lamb's direction as he asked a question.
She took the elevator, which carried her to an upper floor into the region of the ladies' waiting-rooms.
The elevator company must keep on hand enough grain to meet all outstanding receipts.