Elevator vs. Lift

Elevatornoun

(US) A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods.

Elevatornoun

A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator)

Elevatornoun

(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.

Elevatornoun

A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.

Elevatornoun

(anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.

Elevatornoun

A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

Elevatornoun

One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

Elevatornoun

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.

Elevatornoun

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.

Elevatornoun

A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

Elevatornoun

A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

Elevatornoun

An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Elevatornoun

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.

Elevatornoun

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

Elevatornoun

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

Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a type of cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They are typically powered by electric motors that drive traction cables and counterweight systems such as a hoist, although some pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston like a jack.

Liftverb

(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

Liftverb

To steal.

Liftverb

(transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

Liftverb

(transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

Liftverb

(transitive) to cause to move upwards.

Liftverb

To lift weights; to weight-lift.

Liftverb

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

Liftverb

To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

Liftverb

(obsolete) To bear; to support.

Liftverb

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

Liftverb

To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

Liftverb

(finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

Liftnoun

An act of lifting or raising.

Liftnoun

The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

Liftnoun

Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

Liftnoun

An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.

Liftnoun

(measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

Liftnoun

A thief.

Liftnoun

(dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

Liftnoun

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

Liftnoun

An improvement in mood.

Liftnoun

The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

Liftnoun

A rise; a degree of elevation.

Liftnoun

A lift gate.

Liftnoun

(nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

Liftnoun

(engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

Liftnoun

(horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Liftnoun

Air.

Liftnoun

The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

Liftnoun

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

Liftnoun

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

Liftnoun

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

Liftnoun

Help; assistance, as by lifting.

Liftnoun

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

Liftnoun

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

Liftnoun

A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

Liftnoun

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; - used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

Liftnoun

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

Liftnoun

A layer of leather in the heel.

Liftnoun

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Liftnoun

A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the campaign workers got a lift from the President's endorsement.

Liftverb

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.

Liftverb

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; - often with up.

Liftverb

To bear; to support.

Liftverb

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

Liftverb

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

Liftverb

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

Liftverb

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

Liftverb

To steal; also, to live by theft.

Liftnoun

the act of giving temporary assistance

Liftnoun

the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

Liftnoun

the event of something being raised upward;

Liftnoun

a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

Liftnoun

a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

Liftnoun

a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

Liftnoun

one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

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

Liftnoun

plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised;

Liftnoun

transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

Liftnoun

a ride in a car;

Liftnoun

the act of raising something;

Liftverb

raise from a lower to a higher position;

Liftverb

take hold of something and move it to a different location;

Liftverb

move upwards;

Liftverb

move upward;

Liftverb

make audible;

Liftverb

annul by recalling or rescinding;

Liftverb

make off with belongings of others

Liftverb

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;

Liftverb

invigorate or heighten;

Liftverb

raise in rank or condition;

Liftverb

take off or away by decreasing;

Liftverb

rise up;

Liftverb

pay off (a mortgage)

Liftverb

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

Liftverb

take illegally;

Liftverb

fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;

Liftverb

take (root crops) out of the ground;

Liftverb

call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

Liftverb

rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;

Liftverb

put an end to;

Liftverb

remove (hair) by scalping

Liftverb

remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;

Liftverb

remove from a surface;

Liftverb

perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face