Elevated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elevate \El"e*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elevated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Elevating}.] [L. elevatus, p. p. of elevare; e +
     levare to lift up, raise, akin to levis light in weight. See
     {Levity}.]
     1. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to
        raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.


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     2. To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate
        to an office, or to a high social position.
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     3. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as,
        to elevate the spirits.
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     4. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind
        or character.
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     5. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of
        loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.
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     6. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
        [Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two
        tubs of merry stingo." --Sir W. Scott.
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     7. To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. [A Latin
        meaning] [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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     {To elevate a piece} (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower
        the breech.
  
     Syn: To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist;
          heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elevated \El"e*va`ted\, a.
     Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated
     thoughts.
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     {Elevated railway}, one in which the track is raised
        considerably above the ground, especially a city railway
        above the line of street travel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elevated
       adj 1: raised above ground level; on elevated rails; "elevated
              railway"
       2: raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  322 Moby Thesaurus words for "elevated":
     Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial,
     affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified,
     animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august,
     awesome, baggage train, beatified, bedizened, beefed-up, bent, big,
     big-sounding, bighearted, bloated, boiled, bombed, boosted, boozy,
     branch, broadened, cable railroad, cable railway, canned,
     canonized, cheerful, chivalrous, choo-choo, cockeyed,
     cockeyed drunk, cog railroad, cog railway, colossal, convoluted,
     crocked, crocko, declamatory, deepened, deified, dignified,
     distinguished, dominating, el, elated, electric, electric railway,
     electric train, elevated railway, eloquent, embankment, eminent,
     enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect,
     ethereal, ethical, euphuistic, exalted, excellent, exhilarated,
     expanded, express, express train, extended, famous, feeder,
     feeder line, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flier, formal,
     freight, freight train, freighter, fried, fuddled, fulsome,
     funicular, garish, gaudy, generous, glad, glorified, glorious,
     godlike, goods train, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, grave, gravity-operated railway, great,
     great of heart, greathearted, half-seas over, handsome, happy,
     haughty, heightened, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty,
     high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded,
     high-nosed, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding,
     high-toned, high-up, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, honorable,
     horse railway, idealistic, illuminated, illustrious, immortal,
     immortalized, imposing, impressive, increased, inflated, inkhorn,
     inspiring, intensified, interurban, jazzed up, joyful, junction,
     knightly, labyrinthine, largehearted, lauded, lexiphanic, liberal,
     lifted, light railroad, lightning express, limited, line, lit,
     lit up, loaded, local, lofty, lubricated, lurid, lushy,
     magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magniloquent, main line,
     majestic, meretricious, metro, mighty, milk train, monorail,
     monumental, moral, mounting, moving, multiplied, muzzy, noble,
     noble-minded, notable, oiled, on stilts, openhanded, organized,
     orotund, ostentatious, outtopping, overdone, overelaborate,
     overinvolved, overlooking, overtopping, overwrought, parliamentary,
     parliamentary train, passenger train, pedantic, pickled, pie-eyed,
     pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, pompous, potted,
     pretentious, princely, proliferated, prominent, rack railway,
     rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, raddled, rail,
     rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, raised, rampant,
     rattler, reinforced, renowned, rhetorical, righteous, roadbed,
     roadway, rolling stock, sainted, sanctified, sensational,
     sensationalistic, sententious, serious, shellacked, showy, shrined,
     shuttle, shuttle train, sidetrack, siding, skunk-drunk, smashed,
     soaked, soaring, solemn, sonorous, soused, special, spiring,
     spread, squiffy, stately, steep, stewed, stiffened, stilted,
     stinko, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, strengthened,
     sublime, subway, superb, supereminent, superlative, supernal,
     swacked, switchback, swollen, tall, tanked, terminal, terminus,
     throned, tight, tightened, topless, toplofty, topping, tortuous,
     towering, towery, track, train, tram, tramline, trestle,
     trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground,
     upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding,
     upthrown, virtuous, way train, weighty, widened