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Definition: Elevator Shaft |
Elevator ShaftNoun1. A vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | He died in a fire two years ago during the investigation into the murder of a witness who was going to testify against him. Two people watched Dean Keaton walk into a warehouse he owned just before it blew up. They said he went in to check a leaking gas main. It blew up and took all of Dean Keaton with it. Within three months of the explosion, the two witnesses, they were dead. One killed himself in his car; the other fell down an open elevator shaft. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "elevator shaft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | elevatoray aftshay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-l-o-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: aftershave. | |
-4 letters: elevators, flashover, foretaste, heartfelt, leftovers, levatores, overhates, overheats, overstate, tolerates, trehalose, valerates. | |
-5 letters: aerostat, alertest, areolate, athletes, earthset, elevator, falsetto, farthest, feathers, flatters, floaters, forestal, haftarot, halteres, haverels, hetaeras, hosteler, leathers, leftover, levators, loathers, loveseat, oleaster, overeats, overfast, overhate, overheat, overlate, overleaf, overlets, oversale, oversalt, ratafees, ratholes, reflates, refloats, rheostat, shoveler, stearate, theaters, theatres, throstle, tolerate, trehalas, valerate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 76 61 74 6F 72 53 68 61 66 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01010011 01101000 01100001 01100110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e v a t o r   S h a f t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0076 0061 0074 006F 0072 0053 0068 0061 0066 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397871886786818425374677286 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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