elevated
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛləveɪtɪd/
- Simple past tense and past participle of elevate
elevated
- Raised, particularly above ground level.
- Increased, particularly above a normal level.
- the elevated language of poetry
- The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.
- Of a higher rank or status.
- (computing) Running with administration rights granted
- Install all the required tools from an elevated console.
- German: gehoben
- Russian: возвы́шенный
- French: élevé
- Russian: возвы́шенный
elevated (plural elevateds)
- (US) An elevated railway.
- 1934, Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man, New York: Knopf, Chapter 16,
- Mr. Nunheim’s home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.
- 2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York
- While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.
- 1934, Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man, New York: Knopf, Chapter 16,
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