| elevation (ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of elevating or the state of being elevated |
| 2. | the height of something above a given or implied place, esp above sea level |
| 3. | a raised area; height |
| 4. | nobleness or grandeur; loftiness: elevation of thought |
| 5. | plan Compare ground plan a drawing to scale of the external face of a building or structure |
| 6. | the external face of a building or structure |
| 7. | a ballet dancer's ability to leap high |
| 8. | RC Church the lifting up of the Host at Mass for adoration |
| 9. | astronomy another name for altitude |
| 10. | the angle formed between the muzzle of a gun and the horizontal |
| 11. | surveying Compare depression the angular distance between the plane through a point of observation and an object above it |
| 12. | linguistics another term for amelioration |
| ele'vational | |
| —adj | |
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |