dumbwaiter
pronunciation
How to pronounce dumbwaiter in British English:
UK [dʌm'weɪtər]
How to pronounce dumbwaiter in American English:
US [dʌm'weɪtər]
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- Noun:
- a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another
Word Origin
- dumbwaiter (n.)
- 1749, an article of furniture, from dumb (adj.) + waiter (apparently because it serves as a waiter but is silent). As a movable platform for passing dishes, etc., up and down from one room (especially a basement kitchen) to another, from 1847.
Example
- 1. And I hopped the funicular to the dumbwaiter .
- 2. Dumbwaiter lift chinese version , dumbwaiter lift english version , dumbwaiter lift chinese translation .
- 3. Or maybe , she thought as she stood in the kitchen , opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand , the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place .