FREIGHT ELEVATOR collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of freight and elevator
freight
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/freɪt/us
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/freɪt/
goods, but not passengers, that are carried from one place to another, by ship, aircraft, train, or truck, or the system of transporting ...
elevator
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/ˈel.ɪ.veɪ.tər/us
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/ˈel.ə.veɪ.t̬ɚ/
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a device like a box that moves up and down, carrying people or goods from one floor of a building to another or taking people up and down underground in ...
Examples of freight elevator
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The backstage features comfort rooms as well as access to the building's freight elevator.
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A freight elevator provides access to all floors.
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In both stairwells a paternoster lift operates and in the west wing there is also a freight elevator.
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However, including the 3 underground floors, it is a 25 story building (6th floor is only accessible through the freight elevator).
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The five ran toward a nearby freight elevator, and were buried in the ensuing collapse of the concourse.
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A new freight elevator, as well as two passenger elevators, are to be installed in the interstitial building.
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The freight elevator in the back of the store is powered by hand.
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Special cells for harsh punishment were the freight elevator and cubicles under the stairs, where prisoners were forced to crouch for hours.
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In one scene, a large group of extras are lowered underground via an open freight elevator.
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Two elevators would have been perfectly adequate if one had not been used as a freight elevator.
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Four new exits were dug, one of which contained a horse-drawn wooden freight elevator.
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Other improvements included updated mechanical systems and the removal of an unused freight elevator.
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The passenger elevator is wood-paneled and the freight elevator measures 5 x 4 feet (1.5 x 1.2 m) in diameter.
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The most striking feature of the building is the inventive use of a freight elevator for space extension.
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A belt-driven wooden freight elevator was used to take finished castings to the assembly room upstairs and lower the finished products back downstairs.
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I wanted the elevators to be without any controls... to almost feel like a glamorized freight elevator...
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An underground parking garage and a freight elevator to the room where they conducted business.
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The 90000sqft m2 building is served by a freight elevator and two passenger elevators.
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An 8-foot-wide 8-foot-high 12-foot-deep (2.4 m 2.4 m 3.7 m) freight elevator is positioned in the delivery area.
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Due to the lack of a freight elevator and freight doors, the museum is limited in the size and weight of the pieces it may display.
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