Usually means: Enclosed platform for vertical transportation.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. elevator: Merriam-Webster
  2. elevator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elevator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elevator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elevator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elevator, elevator: Wordnik
  7. elevator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Elevator: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. elevator: Wiktionary
  10. elevator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. elevator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. elevator: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. elevator: Dictionary.com
  14. elevator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Elevator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elevator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elevator: Rhymezone
  19. elevator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elevator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elevator: FreeDictionary.org
  22. elevator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elevator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. elevator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elevator (machinery), elevator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elevator: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Elevator (machinery), elevator: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. elevator: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elevator: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the elevator: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elevator: Card Games
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Elevator: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  2. elevator: Chapters in the Sky
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See elevatoring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything that raises or uplifts.
noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) 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.
noun:  A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
noun:  (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
noun:  A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
noun:  (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
noun:  A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To move in an elevator.

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