Elevate vs Relate - What's the difference?
elevate | relate |
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
To tell in a descriptive way.
To give an association.
To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
* 2002 , Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions (page 92)
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with, understand.
(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between elevate and relate
is that elevate is to raise (something) to a higher position; to lift while relate is .As an adjective elevate
is (obsolete) elevated; raised aloft.elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Synonyms
* (raise) lift, raise * (promote) promote, exalt * (ennoble) ennoble, honour/honor, exalt * (elate) cheer up, elate * (increase the intensity of) increase, raise, turn up, up (informal)Antonyms
* (raise) drop, lower * (promote) demote * (elate) depress, sadden * (increase the intensity of) decrease, diminish, lower, reduce, turn downExternal links
* * ----relate
English
Verb
(relat)- The use of video made it possible to relate' the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to ' relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features
- I find it difficult to relate to others because i'm extremely introverted .
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .