элева́тор — meaning in English

English meaning

• elevator noun A machine that carries people or goods up and down between floors of a building.
• lift verb To raise something to a higher position.
• silo noun A tall tower or pit used to store grain, animal feed, or other bulk material.

Senses

элева́тор is used for these senses in English:

• elevator A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
• grain elevator (agriculture, North America) A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that it uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it is designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.
• lift (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic, _, elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

elevator — full definition

1. noun A machine that carries people or goods up and down between floors of a building.
2. noun A tall structure used to store and load grain.

lift — full definition

1. verb To raise something to a higher position.
2. verb To remove or cancel a restriction, ban, or rule.
3. verb To steal something, especially casually or without much effort.
4. noun British English word for an elevator: a device for carrying people or goods between floors.
5. noun A free ride in someone else's vehicle.

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