elevator

ascensor, elevador

Máquina que lleva personas o mercancías de un piso a otro dentro de un edificio.

En inglés sencillo: A machine that carries people or goods up and down between floors in a building.

• Take the elevator upstairs.
• The elevator stopped on the fourth floor.
• Are both elevators working today?

Sinónimos: lift

Expresiones frecuentes: take the elevator, elevator doors, elevator button

silo de grano

Edificio grande o depósito alto donde se guarda grano.

En inglés sencillo: A large building or tall container used to store grain.

• The wheat goes into the grain elevator.
• Several elevators stand beside the railway.
• Farmers delivered their harvest to the elevator.

Sinónimos: silo, grain silo

Expresiones frecuentes: grain elevator, wheat elevator, elevator storage

subir en ascensor, bajar en ascensor

Ir de un piso a otro subiendo o bajando en ascensor.

En inglés sencillo: To travel up or down in a machine that carries people between floors.

• We elevatored up to our room.
• She elevatored down to the lobby.
• They elevatored to the tenth floor.

Cómo se usa: elevator up/down to something (We elevatored up to the rooftop restaurant.)

Sinónimos: take the elevator, take the lift

Expresiones frecuentes: elevator up, elevator down