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Elevator (?), n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur.]
1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
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2. 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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3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.
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4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
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5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
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6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
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7. (Aëronautics) 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.
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Elevator head, Elevator leg, and Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [1913 Webster] -- Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [PJC]
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Lift (lĭft), n. [AS. lyft air. See Loft.] The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
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Lift (lĭft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lifting.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw. lyfta to lift, Dan. löfte, G. lüften; -- prop., to raise into the air. See Loft, and cf. 1st Lift.]
1. To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, “to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden”.
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2. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
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The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. Addison.
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Lest, being lifted up with pride. 1 Tim. iii. 6.
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3. To bear; to support. [Obs.] Spenser.
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4. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
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5. [Perh. a different word, and akin to Goth. hliftus thief, hlifan to steal, L. clepere, Gr. κλέπτειν. Cf. Shoplifter.] To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, “to lift a drove of cattle”.
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☞ In old writers, lift is sometimes used for lifted.
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He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered. Shak.
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To lift up, to raise or elevate; in the Scriptures, specifically, to elevate upon the cross. John viii. 28. -- To lift up the eyes. To look up; to raise the eyes, as in prayer. Ps. cxxi. 1. -- To lift up the feet, to come speedily to one's relief. Ps. lxxiv. 3. -- To lift up the hand. (a) To take an oath. Gen. xiv. 22. (b) To pray. Ps. xxviii. 2. (c) To engage in duty. Heb. xii. 12. -- To lift up the hand against, to rebel against; to assault; to attack; to injure; to oppress. Job xxxi. 21. -- To lift up one's head, to cause one to be exalted or to rejoice. Gen. xl. 13. Luke xxi. 28. -- To lift up the heel against, to treat with insolence or unkindness. John xiii.18. -- To lift up the voice, to cry aloud; to call out. Gen. xxi. 16.
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Lift (lĭft), v. i.
1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
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Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.
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2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, “the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.”
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3. [See Lift, v. t., 5.] To steal; also, to live by theft. Spenser.
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Lift, n.
1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
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2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, “a long lift”. Bacon.
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3. Help; assistance, as by lifting. Hence: A ride in a vehicle, given by the vehicle's owner to another person as a favor -- usually in “give a lift” or “got a lift”; as, “to give one a lift in a wagon; Jack gave me a lift into town”. [Colloq.]
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The goat gives the fox a lift. L'Estrange.
4. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted; as: (a) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter. [Chiefly Brit.] (b) An exercising machine.
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5. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, “the lift of a lock in canals”.
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6. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]
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7. (Naut.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
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8. (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
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9. (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
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10. (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given. Saunier.
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11. A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, “the campaign workers got a lift from the President's endorsement”.
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Dead lift. See under Dead. Swift. -- Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside. -- Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting. -- Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer. -- Lift lock, a canal lock. -- Lift pump, a lifting pump. -- Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed. -- Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.
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