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elevator English

Meaning elevator meaning

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elevator

An elevator is a machine that moves people and goods up and down between floors of a building. Take the elevator to floor 13. He took the elevator from his office to the parking garage. A grain elevator is a building that is used to store wheat, corn, or other grains.

elevator

(= lift) 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 the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend

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Topics elevator topics

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Simple sentences

The elevator is out of order.
I took the elevator to the third floor.
Farting in an elevator is wrong on so many levels.
We've been trapped in the elevator for two hours.
They are entering into the elevator.
We went up and down by elevator.
Bob operates an elevator in the department store.
This elevator does not go above the sixth floor.
This elevator is out of order. Please use the stairs.
This elevator is capable of carrying 10 persons at a time.
The elevator was out of order and we had to walk to the fifth floor.
Where is the elevator?
You may not smoke in an elevator.
I went up to the 5th floor in an elevator.
The elevator is moving up and down.
After asking for my key at the front desk, I took the elevator to my floor.
Tom became good friends with the elevator operator in their hotel.
The elevator seems to be out of order.
This elevator's capacity is ten people.
You may not smoke in the elevator.
As the elevator is out of order, we must go down the stairs.

Movie subtitles

The elevator's broken.
What? The elevator's broken.
The elevator got jammed.
Madame must have noticed how often he rides in the elevator with us.
Shall I put in an elevator for you guys?
We Went 30 Yards At A 40-Degree Angle From The Elevator.
You're In The Elevator?
That's no elevator, that's a birdcage.
Wait till I get a hold of that elevator operator.
I didn't know I was marrying into a house with an elevator.
It isn't only the elevator.
The elevator is to the rear and right.
The elevator.. Is to the rear and to the right.
Save it for the elevator.
Here comes the elevator.
What did you come up on, the freight elevator?
A lady never looks into a strangers face in the elevator.
I guess the elevator boy must be asleep.
And the elevator boy.
The elevator..
Perhaps we'd better use the elevator.
Because from what you told me, it seems like you got locked in an elevator with your fine boss.
Elevator, kiss, boom, rush to the altar.
I'm gonna run an elevator.
Take this elevator to the 25th floor then take the special tower elevator.
I beg pardon, which is the tower elevator?
The elevator boy at Monte Carlo!
But I think the back elevator's got a private hall leading to the Griswald place.
What about the guy in the elevator?
He won't be in the elevator.
A lady never looks into a strangers face in the elevator. Only if there's a specific reason.

News and current affairs

But even if Vladimir Putin's associates had nothing to do with Politkovskaya being gunned down in an elevator of her apartment building in the center of Moscow, his contempt for law created the climate in which the murder was carried out.
In 2006, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in an elevator, and Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who had been critical of Putin, died of polonium poison while in exile in London.

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