Escalator vs. Elevator

Escalatornoun

A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

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An upward or progressive course.

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An escalator clause.

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A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; - originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.

Escalatornoun

a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)

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a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt

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a moving staircase consisting of an endlessly circulating belt of steps driven by a motor, which conveys people between the floors of a public building.

Escalator

An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal.

Elevatornoun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

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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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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

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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.