elevated
4 definitions found
elevated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Elevate \El"e*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elevated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Elevating.] [L. elevatus, p. p. of elevare; e +
levare to lift up, raise, akin to levis light in weight. See
Levity.]
1. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to
raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.
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2. To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate
to an office, or to a high social position.
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3. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as,
to elevate the spirits.
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4. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind
or character.
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5. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of
loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.
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6. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
[Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two
tubs of merry stingo." --Sir W. Scott.
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7. To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. [A Latin
meaning] [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower
the breech.
Syn: To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist;
heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate.
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Elevated \El"e*va`ted\, a.
Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated
thoughts.
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Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised
considerably above the ground, especially a city railway
above the line of street travel.
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elevated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
elevated
adj 1: raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"
2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown
ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand
purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand,
high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified,
idealistic, noble-minded]
3: increased in amount or degree; "raised temperature" [syn:
raised(a), elevated]
n 1: a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a
track that is raised above the street level [syn: elevated railway
, elevated railroad, elevated, el, overhead railway
]
elevated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
322 Moby Thesaurus words for "elevated":
Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial,
affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified,
animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august,
awesome, baggage train, beatified, bedizened, beefed-up, bent, big,
big-sounding, bighearted, bloated, boiled, bombed, boosted, boozy,
branch, broadened, cable railroad, cable railway, canned,
canonized, cheerful, chivalrous, choo-choo, cockeyed,
cockeyed drunk, cog railroad, cog railway, colossal, convoluted,
crocked, crocko, declamatory, deepened, deified, dignified,
distinguished, dominating, el, elated, electric, electric railway,
electric train, elevated railway, eloquent, embankment, eminent,
enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect,
ethereal, ethical, euphuistic, exalted, excellent, exhilarated,
expanded, express, express train, extended, famous, feeder,
feeder line, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flier, formal,
freight, freight train, freighter, fried, fuddled, fulsome,
funicular, garish, gaudy, generous, glad, glorified, glorious,
godlike, goods train, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, grave, gravity-operated railway, great,
great of heart, greathearted, half-seas over, handsome, happy,
haughty, heightened, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty,
high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded,
high-nosed, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding,
high-toned, high-up, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, honorable,
horse railway, idealistic, illuminated, illustrious, immortal,
immortalized, imposing, impressive, increased, inflated, inkhorn,
inspiring, intensified, interurban, jazzed up, joyful, junction,
knightly, labyrinthine, largehearted, lauded, lexiphanic, liberal,
lifted, light railroad, lightning express, limited, line, lit,
lit up, loaded, local, lofty, lubricated, lurid, lushy,
magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magniloquent, main line,
majestic, meretricious, metro, mighty, milk train, monorail,
monumental, moral, mounting, moving, multiplied, muzzy, noble,
noble-minded, notable, oiled, on stilts, openhanded, organized,
orotund, ostentatious, outtopping, overdone, overelaborate,
overinvolved, overlooking, overtopping, overwrought, parliamentary,
parliamentary train, passenger train, pedantic, pickled, pie-eyed,
pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, pompous, potted,
pretentious, princely, proliferated, prominent, rack railway,
rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, raddled, rail,
rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, raised, rampant,
rattler, reinforced, renowned, rhetorical, righteous, roadbed,
roadway, rolling stock, sainted, sanctified, sensational,
sensationalistic, sententious, serious, shellacked, showy, shrined,
shuttle, shuttle train, sidetrack, siding, skunk-drunk, smashed,
soaked, soaring, solemn, sonorous, soused, special, spiring,
spread, squiffy, stately, steep, stewed, stiffened, stilted,
stinko, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, strengthened,
sublime, subway, superb, supereminent, superlative, supernal,
swacked, switchback, swollen, tall, tanked, terminal, terminus,
throned, tight, tightened, topless, toplofty, topping, tortuous,
towering, towery, track, train, tram, tramline, trestle,
trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground,
upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding,
upthrown, virtuous, way train, weighty, widened
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