Word Finder - elevator

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Anything that raises or uplifts.

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A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods.

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A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator)

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A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.

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A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.

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Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.

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A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

Deidre left the elevator and went to her apartment.

I've seen you in the elevator a few times.

The other occupant of the elevator glanced at her.

The elevator in her building was half-broken again.

The cleaned coal is carried by a stream of water to a bucket elevator and delivered to the storage bunkers, or both water and coal may be lifted by a centrifugal pump into a large cylindrical tank, where the water drains away, leaving the coal sufficiently dry for use.

The great elevator centres are in Duluth, St Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and Buffalo.

He turned toward the elevator.

She drove up to the elevator entrance on the side of the draw.

She trailed him to an elevator that took them even further underground.

She glanced at her watch as the elevator doors opened... five-thirty.

The elevator door opened and he stepped inside, swallowed by its stainless steel walls.

Here they are discharged (washed and freed from any adherent soil) into an elevator, which carries them up to the top of the building and delivers them into a hopper feeding the slicer.

The wheat is shovelled into the pathway of the huge steam shovels, which draw it up to the ends of these spouts, where the buckets seize it, and carry it upwards into the elevator, and distribute it among the various bins according to grade.

Unlike an elevator, it didn't appear to move.

Carmen could hear her crying all the way down the hall to the elevator.

Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Leo tried to rescue her, but the two found themselves thrown into a collapsing elevator.

They both stepped on the elevator together and it wouldn't be until the debut of season six that fans learned whether either one survived.

Meredith and Derek would later make their "commitment" official with a post-it note wedding in an elevator.

Elevator Love Letter - Derek proposes to Meredith in an elevator while Cristina is nearly choked by a PTSD patient, Owen.

Mark and Lexie try to hide in the elevator and find Alex, bleeding out.

Finally, a private elevator leads to the Presidential Suites ensuring complete privacy.

Even people who are not familiar with Braille will be aware of the raised patterned surfaces on elevator panels or the rows of coded bumps on medicine or cleaning bottles.

Instead, simple exercise such as walking up stairs rather than taking the elevator, or walking to the corner store rather than driving will also help use up some unwanted calories.

If you sit at a desk all day, the only exercise they get is when you stand from a sitting position or take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Your lungs also get better at oxygen absorption, decreasing the embarrassing wheezing display after having to walk the stairs when the elevator is out of order.

The scenes actually involve the band members going through their regular lives, riding a subway, leaving an elevator and walking down the hallway, looking out the window, talking on the phone, visiting a tattoo shop, and so on.

Even seven years later, in the elevator or in a restaurant I get noticed.

Soon, the Ovion plot is unraveled when Boxey runs after Muffit out of an elevator.

It was the sound I hated more on a telephone that Henri Mancini's version of Theme from Moon Glow or any other top one hundred hits of elevator music was, 'would you please hold'?

His phone rang again, and he answered, trailing Bianca to an elevator.

He sensed the presence of the vamp before they exited the elevator.

She opened the stairwell door and hurried down the stairs two floors then darted into a hallway to the elevator.

He led her into a small, grey elevator that plunged quickly to the depths beneath the mountain.

They passed through two more doors before exiting into a cold desert night on the side of a mountain, overlooking the activity at the elevator's entrance.

Two walked on once he reached the desert, and she trotted after him, looking back at the floodlit entrance to the elevator.

The last item on Dean's list of pleasurable activities was punching one if you want this and two if you want that buttons, then sitting on hold while listening to elevator music from some bureaucratic office.

He darted off the elevator and down the hall, stopping in front of her apartment.

Soon after, a warrior came to her door and led her down several halls and into a tiny box resembling an elevator.

She felt more grounded as she stepped out of the horrible grey elevator onto a thick carpet of green.

Jackson asked for the first floor to avoid a long elevator ride.

He stowed his recorder and descended to street level in an elevator packed tightly with exiting employees.

He stood, glancing toward the elevator where Justin had disappeared.

She stepped up and out of the elevator.

Jessi said nothing as they entered the elevator.

She walked to the elevator.

The ding of the elevator drew his attention, and he realized he had pressed her against the door.

He wrapped his arms around her and backed her into the elevator.

He swatted her ass as she marched past him out of the elevator.

Machines used for lifting only are not called cranes, but winches, lifts or hoists, while the term elevator or conveyor is commonly given to appliances which continuously, not in separate loads, move materials like grain or coal in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction.