Elate vs Elater - What's the difference?
elate | elater |
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
* Sir W. Jones
(obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
(botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
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(botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum ).
(zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between elate and elater
is that elate is (obsolete) lifted up; raised; elevated while elater is (obsolete) elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.As a verb elate
is to make joyful or proud.As an adjective elate
is elated; exultant.As a noun elater is
that which elates or elater can be (obsolete) elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.elate
English
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(elat)Adjective
(head)- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
- with upper lip elate
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
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* (English Citations of "elate")Anagrams
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(wikipedia elater)Etymology 1
Etymology 2
FromNoun
(en noun)- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
