Word Finder - elevated

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To raise (something) to a higher position.

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The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.

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• lift
• raise

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To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

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• exalt
• promote

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To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

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The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.

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• ennoble
• exalt
• honor

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To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

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A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.

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To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

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To increase the intensity or degree of (something).

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Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.

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• increase
• raise

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To lift the spirits of (someone)

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• cheer up
• elate

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To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

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(Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

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• detract
• disparage
• lessen

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An elevated railway.

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Raised, particularly above ground level.

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Increased, particularly above a normal level.

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The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.

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Of a higher rank or status.

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Running with administration rights granted

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Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

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Intoxicated; drunk

Worry, but no elevated level of distress crossed her features.

Holding her head elevated, as Mums had instructed, he offered the bottle.

The situation is elevated and healthy.

The portal was smaller and dryer than the main mine entrance and seemed to lead downward from this elevated location.

It is most elevated in its southern portion, Mt Dabo having a height of 3133 ft.

From their elevated position they could overlook the entire valley, but not a single moving object could they see.

Destiny glanced up at Carmen from her elevated chair at the table and then her attention swung back to Alex.

They sprinted across the floor and leaped up to the elevated platforms, poking their soft muzzles into the stanchions to gobble the grain.

Admittedly, the identification elevated the entire business to a higher, more serious level of concern.

The woman had wrapped Iliana.s hand and elevated it, though the blonde's wheezing led him to believe she wouldn.t last long.

This elevated region is known as the plateau of Matto Grosso, and its elevations so far as known rarely exceed 3000 ft.

In the extreme north-west an elevated region, whose aridity is caused by the " blanketing " influence of the eastern Andean ranges, extends.

In the southern and most elevated portion of the range there are several summits exceeding 5500 ft.

The East Shore is a low level plain, the least elevated section of the state.

They are still more elevated than the castle.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Sofia looked down at the beautiful woman on the bed before jerry-rigging the IV over a lamp to keep it elevated.

The town proper occupies an elevated promontory, washed on the north by the Charente and on the south and west by the Anguienne, a small tributary of that river.

The elevated plateaus between these ranges are semiarid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basins, which become lagoons in the wet season and morasses or dry saltpans in the dry season.

South of the Bermejo the land is more elevated and drier, though large depressions covered with marshy lagoons are to be found, similar to those farther north.

In the north, however, the hot lowlands are malarial and unsuited to north European settlement, while the dry, elevated plateaus are celebrated for their healthiness, those of Catamarca having an excellent reputation as a sanatorium for sufferers from pulmonary and bronchial diseases.

The precipitation is greatest on the Atlantic seaboard and in the elevated regions of the interior.

Inland from the town there is also elevated ground, the Ovinehei.

It does not react with the alkali metals, but combines with magnesium at a low red heat to form a boride, and with other metals at more or less elevated temperatures.

Of course, in a territory of such large extent there are many varieties of climate, and the heat is greater along the coast than on the elevated lands of the interior.

Among deciduous trees the state is noted for its sugar maples; birch and beech are common on the hills, and oaks, elm, hickory, ash, poplar, basswood, willow, chestnut and butternut on the less elevated areas.

The Catholic Church has more wisely left physicians in possession, and elevated the anointing of the sick into a sacrament to be used only in cases of mortal sickness, and even then not to the exclusion of the healing art.

The smoother we make the pulley the more nearly does the amount of useful work which the weight is capable of doing approach ro foot-pounds, and if we take into account the work done against the friction of the pulley, we may say that the work done by the descending weight is ro foot-pounds, and hence when the weight is in its elevated position we have at disposal r o foot-pounds more energy than when it is in the lower position.

Marconi, however, made the important discovery that if his sensitive tube or coherer had one terminal attached to a metal plate lying on the earth, or buried in it, and the other to an insulated plate elevated at a height above the ground, it could detect the presence of very feeble electric waves of a certain kind originating at a great distance.

One end of the sensitive tube was then connected to the earth and the other end to an antenna or insulated elevated conductor A2.

A depression surrounds the little-known south polar region in a continuous ring and extends northwards in three vast hollows lying between the arms of the elevated area.

A striking fact in the configuration of the crust is cs 1'000 n that each continent, or elevated mass of the crust, is T diametrically opposite to an ocean basin or great de 5000 0 -5000 -15000 -20 2500 -300 pression; the only partial exception being in the case of southern South America, which is antipodal to eastern Asia.

These elevated masses are divided from one another by similar great depressions.

The steppes proper are very fertile, elevated plains, slightly undulating, and intersected by numerous ravines which are dry in summer.

In the Lartigue system the train is straddled over a single central rail, elevated a suitable distance above the ground.

The next development in intra-urban railways was an elevated line in the city of New York.

Probably the first suggestion for an elevated railway was made by Colonel Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey, as early as 1831, when the whole art of railway construction was in its infancy.

The superiority, so far as the convenience of passengers is concerned, of an elevated over an underground railway, when both are worked by steam locomotives, and the great economy and rapidity of construction, led to the quick development and extension of this general design.

In the year 1894 an elevated railway was built in Liverpool, and in 1900 a similar railway was constructed in Boston, U.S.A., and the construction of a new one undertaken in New York.

These elevated railways as a rule follow the lines of streets, and are of two general types.

The elevated is used where the traffic is so light as not to warrant the expensive underground construction, or where the construction of an elevated line is of no serious detriment to the adjoining property.

The cost of intra-urban railways depends not only on the type of construction, but more especially upon local conditions, such as the nature of the soil, the presence of subsurface structures, like sewers, water and gas mains, electric conduits, &c.; the necessity of permanent underpinning or temporary supporting of house foundations, the cost of acquiring land passed under or over when street lines are not followed, and, in the case of elevated railways, the cost of acquiring easements of light, air and access, which the courts have held are vested in the abutting property.

The cost of building an ordinary two-track elevated railway according to American practice varies from $300,000 to $400,000 a mile, exclusive of equipment, terminals or land damages.

The Falkland Islands form essentially a part of Patagonia, with which they are connected by an elevated submarine plateau, 1 See B Stechele, in'Milnchener geographische Studien, xx.(1906), and Geographical Journal (December 1907).

Several valleys often unite into a large elevated plain, broken only by scattered buttes and spurs.

As these lakes shrank after the return of an arid climate, they left elevated beaches and deposits of various minerals, which mark their former extent.

The problem cannot be approached from modern preconceptions because there was much associated with the worship of Yahweh which only gradually came to be recognized as repugnant, and there was much in earlier ages and in other lands which reflects an elevated and even complex religious philosophy.

Persecution was elevated into a system, a poll-tax was exacted, and the rabble was allowed (notably in 1336-1337) to give full vent to its fury.

It occupies an elevated situation, and a wide view is obtained from Beacon Hill at the southern end of the esplanade.

Another group of islands consists of elevated masses of submarine volcanic deposits, upon some of which coral-reef limestone forms a more or less complete covering; such are Tonumeia and the Nomuka group (Mango, Tonua, Nomuka-iki).