Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 11 compound words that contain elevator. The most common are listed below. Open elevator in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- elevator musicBland, inoffensive music played as a background in elevators and businesses (such as offices and shopping malls).
- elevator pitchA brief and simple sales pitch; a short summary of a business plan, process, or product, and its selling point and value proposition.
- grain elevatorA 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 …
- space elevatorA hypothetical cable, connecting the ground with space, which includes an elevator used to lift payloads or people into orbit.
- elevator shaftSynonym of liftshaft: The vertical shaft in a building which contains a lift (elevator) platform or cab, and through which it is moved from floor to floor.
- elevator shoeA shoe with a shoe lift.
- express elevatorA high-speed elevator that only serves a select number of floors
- elevator shoesplural of elevator shoe: A shoe with a shoe lift.
- elevator surfingThe practice of riding on the top of elevator cars, outside the actual confines of the car.
- elevator talkbrief, polite, superficial conversation, like that which occurs in elevators.
- Sabbath elevatorAlternative form of Shabbat elevator: An elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish law requiring Jews to abstain from operating electrical switches on Shabbat.
- inclined elevatorSynonym of incline lift: A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates with one vehicle on a single track.
- incline elevatorAlternative form of inclined elevator: A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates with one vehicle on a single track.
- Shabbat elevatorAn elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish law requiring Jews to abstain from operating electrical switches on Shabbat.
- elevator buttThe raising of a domestic cat's hindquarters in response to being petted, scratched, or otherwise stimulated, usually at the base of the tail.
- elevator authorityThe degree of control that the elevators can exert over the pitching motion of an aircraft; related to elevator design and airspeed.
- fart in an elevatorSomething proverbially unpopular or useless.
- elevator buttsplural of elevator butt: The raising of a domestic cat's hindquarters in response to being petted, scratched, or otherwise stimulated, usually at the base of the tail.
- screw elevatorA surgeon's or dentist's instrument for forcing open the jaws.
- silk elevatorA parachute.
- elevator surfersplural of elevator surfer: A person who illegally rides on the top of an elevator car, outside the actual confines of the car.
- sidewalk elevatorA kind of freight elevator used to move materials between a basement and a ground-level area, often the sidewalk just outside the building.
- elevator surferA person who illegally rides on the top of an elevator car, outside the actual confines of the car.
- elevator shaftsplural of elevator shaft: The vertical shaft in a building which contains a lift (elevator) platform or cab, and through which it is moved from floor to floor.
- elevator pitchesplural of elevator pitch: A brief and simple sales pitch; a short summary of a business plan, process, or product, and its selling point and value proposition.
Compound words 11
- elevatorfulEnough to fill an elevator.
- hellevatorA scary elevator; an elevator that takes one to a frightening location.
- bubblevatorA bubble column created to allow a player to move up or down faster.
- ElevatorgateA controversy of 2011 over whether the American blogger Rebecca Watson was right to suggest that a man in an elevator inviting her to his room for coffee was behaving inappropriately.
- elevatorialPertaining to an elevator.
- elevatorlessWithout an elevator.
- elevatorlikeResembling or characteristic of an elevator.
- transelevatorAn automated system used to move, store and retrieve objects in an automated warehouse.
- elevatormanA person employed to operate an elevator.
- elevatormenplural of elevatorman: A person employed to operate an elevator.