Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Raised, especially above the ground.
- adjective Increased in amount or degree.
- adjective Morally or intellectually superior.
- adjective Formal; lofty.
- adjective Elated in feeling or mood; high-spirited.
- noun An elevated railway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lifted or raised to, or placed or situated in, a position above the ground or general level; situated higher than the plane with which the comparison is made.
- In mathematics, containing high powers of the unknown or variable: said of an equation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble.
- adjective one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
elevate . - adjective Above
ground level. - adjective Of a higher
rank orstatus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective raised above the ground
- adjective of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
- adjective increased in amount or degree
- noun a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level
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Examples
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We hold that these colored barbarians have been withdrawn from a country of native barbarism, and under the benignant influence of a Christian rule, of a Christian civilization, have been elevated, yes, _elevated_ to a standing and position which they could never have otherwise secured.
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Yellen used the word "elevated" four times in her speech in referring to the 8.8 percent jobless rate.
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The majority of MPC did see near some term elevated CPI prospects elevated and UK growth momentum would be more than thought.
FXstreet.com 2010
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Surface water and ground water around MTM activity are characterized by elevated sulfates, iron, manganese, arsenic, selenium, hydrogen sulfide, lead, magnesium, calcium and aluminum; contaminates severely damage local aquatic stream life and can persist for decades after mining at a particular site ceases 18, 20.
Jeff Biggers: Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases Jeff Biggers 2011
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Surface water and ground water around MTM activity are characterized by elevated sulfates, iron, manganese, arsenic, selenium, hydrogen sulfide, lead, magnesium, calcium and aluminum; contaminates severely damage local aquatic stream life and can persist for decades after mining at a particular site ceases 18, 20.
Jeff Biggers: Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases Jeff Biggers 2011
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The unemployment rate will remain elevated for years to come, according to a forecast released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve that addresses for the first time economic conditions at the time of the next presidential election.
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And the funny thing, as admitted to myself, was that evolution teaches in no uncertain voice that man did run on all fours ere he came to walk upright, that astronomy states flatly that the speed of the revolution of the earth on its axis has diminished steadily, thus increasing the length of day, and that the seismologists accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action.
The Water Baby 2010
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Though Bristol is being billed a "star" here based on her public speaking career, this career stems from being a high-profile teen mom, with her high profile the result of Bristol's famous mom being elevated from the relatively obscure post of governor of Alaska, to one of the nation's most visible political figures, when John McCain decided to roll the dice on his VP pick just two short years ago.
Phil West: Staying Alive: Bristol Palin Lives to Dance Another Week, and What That Says About the Pending Mid-Term Elections Phil West 2010
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Cicero differs from Demosthenes in elevated passages.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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So, the unemployment rate is going to remain elevated – too elevated and there are too many people who are suffering – for some period of time.
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