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elevator 音标拼音: ['ɛləv ,etɚ] n. 电梯,升降机 电梯,升降机 elevator n 1: 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: { elevator}, { lift}] 2: the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descendElevator \ El" e* va` tor\, n. [ L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. [' e] l[' e] vateur.] 1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A cage or platform ( called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a { lift}; the cage or platform itself. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( A[" e] ronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore- and- aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] { Elevator head}, { Elevator leg}, & { Elevator boot}, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [ 1913 Webster] { Elevator shoes}, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [ PJC] |
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