Levitate vs Aloft - What's the difference?
levitate | aloft |
To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
in the air; in the sky
above, overhead, in a high place; up
* 1883 , :
* 1954 , :
(nautical) in the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
* 1859 , , The Red Rover: A Tale :
As a verb levitate
is to cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.As an adverb aloft is
in the air; in the sky.levitate
English
Verb
(levitat)- The magician levitated the woman.
- The guru claimed that he could levitate .
aloft
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Adverb
(en adverb)- high winds aloft
- Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft .
- He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath.
- I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft ?