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Elevators
- noun - 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
Elevatory
- - Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
Elevenses
- unknown - A mid-morning snack, usually tea or coffee and a sweet biscuit or pastry.
- Mid morning snack
Elevenths
- noun - position 11 in a countable series of things
Eliciting
- verb - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
Eliminant
- - The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
Eliminate
- verb - dismiss from consideration or a contest;
- do away with
- eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
- kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
- terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
Elinguate
- - To deprive of the tongue.