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.
A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.
Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
Anything that raises or uplifts.
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
To use a shoehorn.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.