OTIS

n. male first name; family name; Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861) American inventor, designer of the first elevator

Otis can refer to:PeopleAmos Otis, a professional baseball playerElisha Otis, inventor of a safety device for hoisting machinery, who went on to invent the first passenger elevatorElwell Otis, an American general who served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American warsHarrison Gray Otis (1837-1917), a publisher of the Los Angeles TimesHarrison Gray Otis (lawyer) (1765-1848), Representative and a Senator from MassachusettsJames Otis, a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American RevolutionWilliam Otis, inventor of the steam shovelOtis R. Bowen, the former governor of Indiana and former United States Secretary of Health and Human ServicesOtis the flow Fraser, a Zimbabwean DJ who is internationally renowned for his skills on the ones and twos (turntables)Otis Grant, a professional boxerOtis King, inventorOtis Nixon, former MLB playerOtis Redding, the musician
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The Otis Elevator Company is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems, principally elevators and escalators. Founded in Yonkers, New York, USA in 1853 by Elisha Otis, the company pioneered the development of the safety elevator, which used a special mechanism to lock the elevator car in place should the hoisting ropes fail. Otis made skyscrapers possible by providing safe mechanical transport to upper floors.
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Noun
1. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
(synonym) Elisha Graves Otis
(hypernym) inventor, discoverer, artificer
2. type genus of the Otididae: European bustard
(synonym) genus Otis
(hypernym) bird genus
(member-holonym) Otididae, family Otididae
(member-meronym) great bustard, Otis tarda

(n.)
A genus of birds including the bustards.
  

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bustard; (Otis tarda| great bustard| largest European bird)