Antonyms for elevator
ˈɛl əˌveɪ tərel·e·va·tor

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1. elevatornoun

   Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

   Synonyms:
   lift

Matched Categories

1. • Airfoil
   • Lifting Device

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1. elevator, liftnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   rise, cosmetic surgery, nip and tuck, heave, face lifting, lift, ski lift, airlift, facelift, elevation, rhytidectomy, ski tow, raising, face lift, rhytidoplasty, aerodynamic lift, raise

2. elevatornoun

   the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend

   Synonyms:
   lift

How to use elevator in a sentence?

1. Managing Director of Pegasus Shipping:

   At about 9.45 p.m., we went to take the elevator down, but hotel security stopped us saying there was a gang war on the ground floor. We were all quite anxious about what was going on but soon found out through the TV that it was a terror attack, a few people were calm, some had fainted or were in a state of shock under the tables. The bomb blast, the sound of gunfire and the fire engulfing the area was so shocking. All of us were in a different states of mind. I was extremely worried about my mother, my two daughters and my wife, they were all crying.

2. Jesse Eisenberg:

   My wife and I are very involved on a day-to-day level -- painting and cleaning and mopping. And there's a lot of sterilization to be done, as you can imagine, right now -- door knobs and elevator buttons, et cetera, i married a person who is a walking saint and so she has not spent a day in her life not doing something to help those most in need. So, for her, it was kind of without hesitancy that we should come here and figure out ways to help.

3. Norman Baylor:

   When we were reviewing applications back when they were on paper, there was so much The FDA would not fit on the freight elevator. That's how big the application is. You have lots of data to review.

4. Wilkinson Eyre:

   Two of them are still going to be used as flues for the massive, modern energy center that we're going to construct to power the place, the third will remain hollow with a glass roof, and the fourth will house a cylindrical glass elevator that will pop out at the top at a viewing platform.

5. Charles de LEUSSE:

   No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

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