Meaning

7 senses
  1. Anything that raises or uplifts.

  2. (Australia, Canada, Philippines, US)A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.

    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

  3. (US)A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).

    элева́торelevátor

  4. A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.

    Höhenruder

  5. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.

  6. Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.

  7. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

Examples

461 sentences
  1. The elevator is out of order.

    Ліфт не працює.

    ruЛифт вышел из строя.

    deDer Aufzug ist außer Betrieb.

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  2. Excuse me, where are the elevators?

    Перепрошую, де знаходяться ліфти?

    ruПростите, где находятся лифты?

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  3. You may not smoke in the elevator.

    Не можна палити у ліфті.

    ruВ лифте нельзя курить.

    deIm Aufzug ist Rauchen nicht gestattet.

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  4. Have you ever been stuck in an elevator?

    Ти колись застрягав у ліфті?

    ruВы когда-нибудь застревали в лифте?

    deBist du schon einmal in einem Aufzug steckengeblieben?

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  5. I went up to the 5th floor in an elevator.

    Я поїхав на п'ятий поверх на ліфті.

    ruЯ поднялся в лифте на пятый этаж.

    deIch fuhr mit dem Fahrstuhl in die 5. Etage.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
silo for storing grain:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
control surface of an aircraft:

Forms

plural: elevators
Singularelevator
Pluralelevators

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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:lift

Word family

28 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • took the elevator
  • off the elevator
  • an an elevator
  • into the elevator
  • the elevator and
  • in the elevator
  • the elevator is
  • for the elevator
  • the elevator doors
  • on the elevator
  • elevator is out
  • elevator isn't working

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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