Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In or into a high place; high or higher up.
- adverb Up in or into the air.
- adverb Nautical At or toward the upper rigging.
- preposition On or above.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On high; in or into the air; high above the ground: as, the eagle soars aloft.
- Nautical, in or into the top; at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging; hence, on the upper part, as of a building.
- On the top or surface of; above.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On high; in the air; high above the ground.
- adverb (Naut.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.
- preposition obsolete Above; on top of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in the
air ; in thesky - adverb
above ,overhead , in ahigh place;up - adverb nautical in the top, at the
masthead , or on the higheryards orrigging .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the higher atmosphere above the earth
- adverb at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship
- adverb at or to great height; high up in or into the air
- adverb upward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Irrational economic exuberance brought other luxury touches, including hydraulic hinges that seemed to allow trunk lids end engine hoods to float up and remain aloft when open, as if by magic.
The Volkswagen Jetta's graceful ride back down to earth Post 2010
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Young birds may remain aloft for two or even three years at a time.
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In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel.
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Although mortally wounded on her final mission, the plane nevertheless "battled" to remain aloft so that her crew would have enough time to bail out. 74 This conceit is partly explained by the standard procedure for bailing out while in enemy territory.
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The source of the alarm that has my colleagues chittering on the termite mound like meerkats on the veldt who have espied a Martial Eagle coursing aloft is a report in EU Reporter by Chris White:
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The source of the alarm that has my colleagues chittering on the termite mound like meerkats on the veldt who have espied a Martial Eagle coursing aloft is a report in EU Reporter by Chris White:
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He held the animal protein aloft, offering it to the visitor.
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It gave us Washington -- it gave us liberty, and bears our name aloft among the nations of the earth.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel.
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In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel.
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