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elevator

5 definitions • 2 examples
1
a device like a box that moves up and down, carrying people or goods from one floor of a building to another or taking people up and down underground in a mine
2
a conveyor (= moving strip) that can be used for removing goods from a ship, putting bags onto an aircraft, moving grain, etc.
3
a piece of equipment, usually in the form of a small room, that carries people or goods straight up and down in tall buildings
4
a small room in a tall building which carries people or goods up and down to different levels of the building:

Examples:

I took the elevator to her office on the fourteenth floor.
5
a moving strip which can be used for taking goods off a ship, putting bags onto an aircraft, etc.:

Examples:

They place the bales onto an elevator that transports them to a shredding mill.

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