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# elevator

«elevator» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine like a small room that carries people or things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an elevator, elevators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An elevator is a machine like a small room that carries people or things up and down between floors of a building (US and Canada; called a «lift» in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#m1)

2) A grain elevator is a tall building where farmers store grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#m2)

3) A part on a plane's tail that moves to make it go up or down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life in tall buildings and in maths word problems about floors and weight limits. Phrases: «take the elevator», «elevator button», «the elevator is out of order». Safety: in a fire, use the stairs, not the elevator.

### examples

- We took the elevator to the tenth floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x1)
- Press the button to call the elevator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x2)
- In a fire, never use the elevator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x3)
- The elevator can carry eight people at most. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x4)
- In London we called it a lift, not an elevator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x5)
- The elevator got stuck between floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x6)
- A grain elevator stood beside the railway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/#x7)

### note

«An elevator» (vowel sound). US/Canada «elevator» = UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ «lift». Maths: if an elevator holds 600 kg and each person weighs about 75 kg, at most 8 people can ride. Going from floor 3 to floor 9 is 6 floors up (9 − 3), not 7.

### In the corpora

- [British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elevator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.