An elevator or lift is a vertical transport Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. Transport is performed by modes, such as air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston.
Languages other than English may have loanwords By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept, whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself based on either elevator (e.g., Japanese Japanese (日本語?, [nihoŋɡo] ) is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none of them have gained unanimous acceptance. Japanese is an agglutinative) or lift (e.g., Cantonese Cantonese in the narrow sense, also known as Canton dialect or Guangzhou dialect, is the prestige dialect of the Yue branch of Chinese.[neutrality disputed] It is spoken natively in and around the city of Guangzhou in Southern China, by the majority population of Hong Kong and Macau, and as a lingua franca of Guangdong province and some).
Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new multi-story buildings, especially where wheelchair ramps would be impractical.
Chicago Sun-Times
The L stops at Belmont and Fullerton will have working elevators by the end of the week as part of the CTA's ongoing efforts to increase accessibility. ...
New CTA elevators to go into service ABC7Chicago.com
CTA To Open New Elevators At 2 Brown Line Stations CBS2 Chicago
Strategic Investments Allow CTA to Improve Fleet and Facilities for Riders Chicago Press Release Services (press release)
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Elevator near Pognana Lario Italy by Eduardo Manchon
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