- elevator, lift - 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
--1 is a kind of lifting device
--1 is a part of building, edifice
--1 has parts: car, elevator car
--1 has particulars:dumbwaiter, food elevator; freight elevator, service elevator; paternoster Derived form: verb elevate2 - elevator - the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
--2 is a kind of airfoil, aerofoil, control surface, surface
--2 is a part of horizontal tail