elevator

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun 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
noun the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend

From elevate + -or.

The elevator wait was interminable. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
"Elevator Stops At All Floors." — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
"Elevator to the third floor." — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett

lift

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