ELEVATOR
\ˈɛlɪvˌe͡ɪtə], \ˈɛlɪvˌeɪtə], \ˈɛ_l_ɪ_v_ˌeɪ_t_ə]\
Definitions of ELEVATOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
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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.
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A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
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A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
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An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
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A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
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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.
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A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
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A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
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An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
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A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.
By Noah Webster.
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Mechanical ascending and descending devices which convey objects and/or people.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That which raises up or exalts; a hoisting machine or lift; a cage moving up and down in a shaft, to carry people or goods from one level to another; a warehouse for the storage of grain.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An instrument for prying up a sunken part, as the depressed fragment of bone in fracture of the skull. 2. A dental instrument for extracting the root of a tooth.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The person or thing that lifts up: a machine for raising grain, etc., to a higher floor: a muscle raising a part of the body.
By Daniel Lyons
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Person or thing that elevates; machinery for lifting grain, &c., or persons, to the higher floors of a building.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One who or that which elevates; a hoisting mechanism for grain, freight, or passengers; also, a warehouse for grain.
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who or that which raises, lifts, or exalts; a muscle which serves to raisea a part of the body, as the lip or the eye; an elevatory; a series of small boxes fastened by a strap, and moved by a wheel to raise grain, &c., from a lower to a higher floor.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who, or that which, raises or exalts; in anat., a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body; in surg., an instr. for raising the depressed portion of a bone.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A muscle, whose function it is to raise the part into which it is inserted. See Levator.
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A name given to different surgical instruments employed for raising portions of bone which have been depressed, for raising and detaching the portion of bone separated by the crown of the trepan, and for removing stumps of teeth.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An instrument for raising a part. especially depressed pieces of bone in fracture of the skull. In dentistry, an instrument for removing the roots of teeth. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
