noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elevator music
mine/elevator/ventilation etc shaft
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a 300-foot elevator shaft
rode the elevator
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He rode the elevator down to the first floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
door
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Creed and McGowan were already waiting in front of the elevator doors .
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Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.
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The elevator door on the first floor was ornamental iron lace.
grain
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The roar of the grain elevators and the slap of timbers rent the sunlit air.
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There used to be a grain elevator , but it closed.
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Two associated pneumatic grain elevators with a combined discharge rate of 400 tons per hour were completed soon after.
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Most of the commingled corn is stored in grain elevators , said John Wichtrich, general manager for Aventis CropScience.
operator
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He worked only part-time, an elevator operator , because the country was awash in college graduates.
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Desperate and disenchanted, she flees to Tulsa where she works as a department store elevator operator .
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The elevator operators know his habits and are holding back the door of a car.
■ VERB
ride
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They rode up in the elevator again.
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You see them crossing hallways and riding in elevators .
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She smiled to herself imagining what it would be like to ride in an elevator fifty stories just to go to bed.
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A compulsion to ride in glass elevators in Marriott hotels.
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Quinn pushed the door open, walked through the lobby, and rode the elevator to the eleventh floor.
step
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As she stepped into the humming elevator , Chesarynth realized that the other doors were holograms for security.
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Guests step off the elevator into dimly lit halls, a dubious signature of Starckdesigned hotels.
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He stepped into a crowded elevator .
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As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her, she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance.
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He stepped on to the elevator , and the doors closed in front of him before Wyatt remembered to get on with him.
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He stepped into his private elevator , and pressed the button for the eighteenth floor.
take
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He took the service elevator down to the parking-lot and got into his car.
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To get to his broadcast location he was forced to take the freight elevator .
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Renwick followed slowly, gave her time to take the elevator before he passed the reception desk.
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They played for another hour, mostly losing, then took the elevator up to the eighth floor.
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The prisoners were taken down in the elevator one at a time.
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We took the elevator to the sixth floor and removed our shoes at the door.
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He shaved, got dressed and took the elevator to the breakfast-room.
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We said good night and took the elevator back down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An old plough disc forms a foot and oil comes from the harvester's elevator motor drive.
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Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude, it carried on, sinking fast.
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He backed away towards the nook beside the elevator , where he kept his gun, but the stranger was too quick.
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I climb aboard Moosha and suddenly get the sensation that the express elevator is going right through the roof.
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I rushed to the elevator and down to the art gallery, dreading that...
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It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
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People were trapped in elevators, businesses closed early, and schools sent students home.
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You just walk down this corridor and around these elevators to the bank on the far side.