elevator

noun

• Machine that carries people between floors
• A platform or compartment enclosed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels.
• A building for storing grain, equipped with machinery for raising and distributing it.
• A movable control surface on the tailplane of an aircraft, used to control the aircraft's pitch.
• A surgical instrument for raising a depressed part or dissecting tissue.
• An elevator.
• A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels; lift.
• A building for elevating and storing grain; grain elevator.
• A muscle that raises a body part.
• A movable control surface on the tailplane of an aircraft, used to control the aircraft's pitch.