Wo vs Elevation - What's the difference?
wo | elevation |
A falconer's call to a hawk.
A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
* 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
* (Hannah More)
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
(lb) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
(lb) The raising of the —representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
As nouns the difference between wo and elevation
is that wo is while elevation is the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.As an interjection wo
is a falconer's call to a hawk.wo
English
(wikipedia wo)Alternative forms
* whoaEtymology 1
Variant of who .Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
Variant of woe .Noun
(en noun)- Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
- But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .