elevation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc. countable,uncountable
    — elevation to a throne
  2. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation. countable,uncountable
  3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station. countable,uncountable
    — A hill is an elevation of the ground.
  4. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude. countable,uncountable
    — the elevation of the pole, or of a star
  5. The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands. countable,uncountable
  6. The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line. countable,uncountable
  7. 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 of sight; distinguished from direction. countable,uncountable
  8. 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. countable,uncountable
  9. The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service. countable,uncountable
  10. An opium mixture used in the Fens to improve the mood and prevent malaria. UK,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] many of the fen people used what they called "elevation." Farmer Porter was his informant concerning this habit. "What's elevation?" "Oh! ho! ho! — yow goo into druggist's shop o' market day into Cambridge, and you'll see the little boxes, doozens and doozens, a' ready on the counter; and never a ven-man's wife goo by, but what calls in for her pennord o' elevation, to last her out the week. […]

词形变化

elevations plural

词汇关系

反义词
disgust demotion depression diminishment reduction
衍生词
angle of elevation Arkansas elevation boiling-point elevation dextroelevation elevational laevoelevation paleoelevation self-elevation ST elevation superelevation
相关词
elevate elevator overelevation fasl masl

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
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Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Latin ēlevō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ēlevātiō
Old French elevation
English elevation
From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.
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