Elevator

n. mechanical apparatus for moving people or items from floor to floor within a building

An elevator or lift is a transport device used to move goods or people vertically. Languages other than English may have loanwords based on either elevator (e.g. Japanese) or lift (e.g. many European languages, Cantonese). Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new buildings with multiple floors.
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Noun
1. 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
(synonym) lift
(hypernym) lifting device
(hyponym) dumbwaiter, food elevator
(part-holonym) building, edifice
(part-meronym) car, elevator car
(derivation) raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
2. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
(hypernym) airfoil, aerofoil, control surface, surface
(part-holonym) horizontal tail

n. elevator, mechanical apparatus for moving people or items from floor to floor within a building

(n.)
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
  

(n.)
An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
  

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

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A cage or platform 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.
  

(n.)
A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.