Elevator

(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.

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• In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The walls are 15 feet thick at the base, and 18 inches at the top, and its summit is reached by an internal winding staircase and a central elevator. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The elevator rose steadily and stopped. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It is by means of the modern elevator that the business of a whole town may be transacted under a single roof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• While moving on this elevator the cases are cooled so that they can be handled as soon as they are lowered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I paid the driver, and then we rode upstairs in the elevator. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here is also a chain elevator, which raises the wheels out of the freight cars to a runaway on which they travel by gravity to the third floor of the main factory. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He knew where every elevator shaft and boiler and fire-wall was, and also how much gas each resident used and what he paid for it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Of close kin to the elevator are the _fire escape_, _dumb waiter_ and _grain elevator_, each of which fills a more or less important function in the life of to-day. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It has been called an elevator with the doors always open. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And he darted to the elevator to forestall the two women. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This, in its latest form known as the gearless traction elevator, does away with all intricate machinery, and yields a machine moving with equal speed whatever the height. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Mention has already been made of office and other elevators, in which compressed air is an important factor in operating the same and for preventing accidents. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The century was half through with before it was proposed to use water and steam for passenger elevators. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Not only are passengers conveyed up and down by electric elevators in skyscrapers, but the buildings themselves are erected by means of electricity. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Story in Elevators and Escalators[15] 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The operating-room referred to was on the fifth floor of the building with no elevators. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The supplies for cities and for families are estimated, measured and recorded as easily as are the supplies of illuminating gas, or the flow of food from elevators. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The summit of the tower was reached by staircases containing 1,793 steps, and by hydraulic elevators running in four stages. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then came the overhead circuits for distributing electrical energy to motors for operating elevators, driving machinery, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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