elevator shaft
elevator shaft noun: synonym of liftshaft.
Noun
elevator shaft (plural elevator shafts)
- Synonym of liftshaft.
- You know when winter comes to visit these big cities and / the wind starts howling through the elevator shafts1979, The Boomtown Rats, “Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing
- Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their...2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...
- Synonyms:
- liftshaft
Synonyms of elevator shaft
Forms of elevator shaft
| plural | elevator shafts |
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Questions about elevator shaft
- What does elevator shaft mean?
- Elevator shaft means synonym of liftshaft.
- What part of speech is elevator shaft?
- Elevator shaft is a noun.
- What is the plural of elevator shaft?
- The plural of elevator shaft is elevator shafts.
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