Crossword-Solution: ELEVATOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elevator | n. | One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything |
| Elevator | n. | 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. |
| Elevator | n. | A cage or platform 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. |
| Elevator | n. | A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. |
| Elevator | n. | A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. |
| Elevator | n. | An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ELEVATOR | anagram | OVERLATE, VOLETEAR |
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Sentences with ELEVATOR (5)
The main street was a deeply rutted road, now frozen hard, which ran from the squat red railway station and the grain “elevator” at the north end of the town to the lumber yard and the horse pond at the south end.
When the cage stopped, she pushed him out of the elevator through another door, which a maid opened, into a square hall.
The cage proved to be one of the common types of elevator cars that I had seen in other parts of Barsoom.
Then he emerged upon the aerial dock, entered an elevator, and was borne quickly to the street below, where he was soon engulfed by the early morning throng of workers hastening to their daily duties.
Over time, the computer could learn to recognize rock'n'roll from Opera from radio jingles to Elevator Music.
Quotes with ELEVATOR (3)
Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments — we hear a word that sticks in our mind — or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly — we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with …
So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and full of fear. I explain that Depression and Loneliness have shown up, and I’m scared they will never leave. I say that I don’t want to take the drugs anymore, but I’m frightened I will have to. I am terrified that I will never really pull my life together. In response, somewhere from within me, rises a now-familiar presence, of…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 73 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).