Elevation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELEVATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of elevating
• the action or fact of raising or being raised to a higher or more important level, state, or position
• increase in the level of something
• the raising of the consecrated elements for adoration at Mass
• the ability of a dancer to attain height in jumps.
• height above a given level, especially sea level
• a high place or position
• the angle of something with the horizontal, especially of a gun or of the direction of a celestial object
• a particular side of a building
• a scale drawing showing the vertical projection of one side of a building.
• The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
• Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.
• That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
• The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
• The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
• The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction.
• A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.
• the event of something being raised upward
• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
• angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• a raised or elevated geological formation
• distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)
• (ballet) the height of a dancer\'s leap or jump
• drawing of an exterior of a structure
• the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something
• raising
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the height to which something is elevated; as the angular distance of something (as a celestial object) above the horizon; the degree to which a gun is aimed above the horizon; the height above the level of the se altitude

Words related to ELEVATION

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Words that contain ELEVATION

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How to use ELEVATION in a sentence

• John also owed his elevation to the gold with which he bribed the rebels and their leader, Girardo de Saxo.
• So Edi looked down on Leopoldy from an elevation of a fourth class boy and noticed with scorn how Sally found pleasure in the little fellow and befriended him.
• Alcatraz increased his walk to a trot, promptly lost the scent altogether, and headed onto the next elevation to see if he could catch it again.
• Two of her letters are printed by Gotti, and deserve to be studied for the power of their style and the elevation of their sentiments.
• The highest of these cells, and which are occupied by the youngest monks, are at an elevation of three or four thousand feet above the level of the Mediterranean.
• We see in these figures that the more mountainous land supplies less dissolved matter to the ocean than the land of lower elevation, as our study has led us to expect.
• We see how small a movement of the crust the loftiest elevation of the Himalaya represents and what a little depression holds the ocean.
• Between these two extremes, on the slopes of the sierra, toward the warm country, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, I found the most delightful climate I ever knew.
• A little above the latter is a small palace, called Meudon, which, from its great elevation, commands a fine view of Paris.
• With him, it was that development and elevation of the race for which every true man should labor.
• In connection with it, the rate of elevation would be ascertained, whether it is everywhere the same, and continuous or intermittent.
• Questions like these are usually left to those who have the taste to delight in them and the mental elevation to grasp the difficulties involved in them.
• In refined and delicate sensibility, in purity of feeling, in elevation of tone, there is no English writer of verse at the present day who surpasses him.
• The country around, for miles, wore the appearance of an interminable and boundless plain, with an almost imperceptible landward elevation, and thickly wooded with stunted trees.
• In Hoffmann there is no such elevation of the moral world to the rank of an atmosphere.
• As it is on the western border of the great plain, you can hardly at first realise what its elevation is.
• It was but a small elevation, and from its summit we secured a splendid view of the animals, now less than three hundred yards distant.
• It follows that her elevation and her happiness, her education and usefulness, are objects of deep concern.
• Here, at an elevation of 2500 feet, a species of spruce-like pine appeared to thrive well.
• On an isolated elevation stood a lone, tall tree, in the topmost branches of which reposed what seemed to be a large package.
• The tea-plant has been successfully cultivated, on a large scale, in the island of Madeira, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, by Mr.
• The Vizier at once secured him, took him to Kamran, and hindered him from leaving, forcing him indeed to the dangerous elevation of British Agent at Herat.

Similar words containing ELEVA without suffix tion

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