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Elates vs Elater - What's the difference?

elates | elater |

As a verb elates

is (elate).

As a noun elater is

that which elates or elater can be (obsolete) elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.

elates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (elate)
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    elate

    English

    Verb

    (elat)
  • To make joyful or proud.
  • To lift up; raise; elevate.
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • elated; exultant
  • * Alexander Pope
  • O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
  • * Mrs. H. H. Jackson
  • Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
  • (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
  • * Fenton
  • with upper lip elate
  • * Sir W. Jones
  • And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

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    elater

    English

    (wikipedia elater)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which elates.
  • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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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  • 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
  • (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum ).
  • (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
  • Derived terms
    * pseudoelater

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