Elevator is an English word with synonyms like lift or airfoil. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Elevator meaning
- Anything that raises or uplifts.
- 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.
- A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
Using Elevator
- The main meaning on this page is: Anything that raises or uplifts. | 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. | A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
- Useful related words include: lift, lifting device, airfoil, aerofoil.
- In the example corpus, elevator often appears in combinations such as: the elevator, an elevator, elevator and.
Context around Elevator
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elevator
- In this selection, "elevator" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, space, stretcher, bigger, speeches, equipped and malfunction stand out and add context to how "elevator" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2008 one elevator was upgraded and a bigger elevator is supplied. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elevator" sits close to words such as blasted, brink and chloe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elevator
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A grain elevator, silos and warehouses were damaged or destroyed, it said. (12 words)
Sebastian runs for the elevator followed by Roy, who then rides the elevator down alone. (15 words)
Elevator speeches In 2004, UU World magazine asked for contributions of " elevator speeches " explaining Unitarian Universalism. (16 words)
In 2008, one elevator was upgraded to add a glass floor panel, believed to have the highest vertical rise of any elevator equipped with this feature. citation citation Both linked pages include a video of the elevator with glass floor in operation. (42 words)
It is rare for an elevator malfunction to cause such a serious risk, but over the same weekend there was a major elevator problem in the UK, with shoppers “thrown up and down” for 40 minutes in a Cardiff shopping centre. (41 words)
In order to get to the top of the restaurant, you have to take the elevator (there is only one available) to the thirteenth floor and then a separate elevator immediately outside of the first to the fifteenth floor. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is possible that even after having provision to accommodate the stretcher elevator in the drawing, a bigger elevator is supplied and termed as a service elevator, just to save some cost.
In 2008, one elevator was upgraded to add a glass floor panel, believed to have the highest vertical rise of any elevator equipped with this feature. citation citation Both linked pages include a video of the elevator with glass floor in operation.
If the woman was indeed in the elevator from Friday to Monday, it would break the record for the longest time trapped in an elevator in New York City.
It is rare for an elevator malfunction to cause such a serious risk, but over the same weekend there was a major elevator problem in the UK, with shoppers “thrown up and down” for 40 minutes in a Cardiff shopping centre.
Marcin is racing an elevator up six stories to the top of a building to see whois faster, an elevator or a speed climber.
Most notably, water has leaked in and damaged the elevator, frequently shorting out the circuitry for the elevator and leaving it unusable.
County Commissioners have selected Davis & Newcomer Elevator Co. to repair and rebuild nearly every aspect of the courthouse’s elevator.
In order to get to the top of the restaurant, you have to take the elevator (there is only one available) to the thirteenth floor and then a separate elevator immediately outside of the first to the fifteenth floor.
The French Elevator Channel chronicles one man’s quest to record illustrative videos of every elevator he has the pleasure to use.
A space elevator cannot be an elevator in the typical sense (with moving cables) due to the need for the cable to be significantly wider at the center than at the tips.
A terrestrial space elevator is beyond our current technology, although a lunar space elevator could theoretically be built using existing materials.
Elevator speeches In 2004, UU World magazine asked for contributions of " elevator speeches " explaining Unitarian Universalism.
In the current usage by practitioners (and in this article), a "Space Elevator" means the Tsiolkovsky-Artsutanov-Pearson type as considered by the International Space Elevator Consortium.
Sebastian runs for the elevator followed by Roy, who then rides the elevator down alone.
That situation would apply, for example, to the elevator example, where all objects are subject to the same gravitational acceleration, and the elevator itself accelerates at the same rate.
The consequences would be unpleasant; at the very least, the elevator would stop responding to requests to move to another floor (like when you call the elevator or when someone is inside and presses the floor buttons).
The elevator conundrum The invention of the elevator was a precondition for the invention of skyscrapers, given that most people would not (or could not) climb more than a few flights of stairs at a time.
After completing the Chamber of Duality section and riding the elevator out, you are advised to rest at the nearby meditation site.
A grain elevator, silos and warehouses were damaged or destroyed, it said.
As a result, it's in your best interest to repair the Arcane Tower elevator and explore the rest of the building so long as you can get past the turrets.
Common combinations with elevator
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the elevator 83×
- an elevator 52×
- elevator and 12×
- elevator in 8×
- elevator at 7×
- space elevator 6×
- elevator of 6×
- elevator to 5×
- elevator was 4×
- elevator with 4×