Elevator vs Nuke - What's the difference?
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(US) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator )
(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
(anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
Nuclear weapon.
Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
(US, slang) A microwave oven
Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke
To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
(colloquial) To completely destroy.
As nouns the difference between elevator and nuke
is that elevator is (us) permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically while nuke is mother.elevator
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (permanent construction) lift (British English)Derived terms
* elevon * elevator musicSee also
(wikipedia elevator)nuke
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
- "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
Verb
(nuk)- First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
- I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
- To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )