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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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.

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