elevator
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
anatomy
business
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
▲
Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Latin ēlevō
Latin ēlevātusder.
Middle English elevat
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-nom
Proto-Indo-European *-onom
Proto-Germanic *-aną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Old English -an
Middle English -en
Middle English elevaten
English elevate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
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Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English elevator
From elevate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: elevators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elevators
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elevatoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elevatored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elevatored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that raises or uplifts.
pos: noun
examples: And then the foaming flagons raised on high, with that best of all beverages, that elevator of spirits, that foaming sunshine, that grand and glorious brew of ale.
Bulk loading of grain in progress from road to rail at Biggleswade using a portable elevator.
gloss: A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Philippines
US
gloss: A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
[W]hen a group of farmers started a co-op elevator, he invested in it, and persuaded business friends to do the same.
gloss: A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
pos: noun
gloss: A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
pos: noun
gloss: Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
pos: noun
gloss: To move in an elevator.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: He elevatored up to the third floor.
Derived words: ailevator
elevator authority
elevator butt
elevatorful
Elevatorgate
elevatorless
elevatorlike
elevatorman
elevator music
elevator operator
elevator pitch
elevator shaft
elevator shoe
elevator surfer
elevator surfing
elevator talk
elevon
express elevator
fart in an elevator
grain elevator
inclinator
inclined elevator
incline elevator
jetevator
nonelevator
one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
ruddervator
Sabbath elevator
screw elevator
Shabbat elevator
Shabbos elevator
sidewalk elevator
silk elevator
space elevator
transelevator
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