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elevation
noun as in height; high ground
noun as in advancement, promotion
Example Sentences
These are helpful elevations for these players but they were not gained by beating golfers scrapping for their futures, as was the case - for example - in the International Series event in Saudi Arabia.
At an elevation of about 2500 meters on Ethiopia’s Amhara plain, villagers conduct an ancient ritual—harvesting delicate stalks of teff by hand.
A hydraulic model then maps out where flooding will occur based on the local flood infrastructure and generates a visual, color-coded map of flood elevations over a particular region.
Rain turned to steady snowfall over Dartmoor and Exmoor early on Thursday morning but as this turned heavier during the morning, heavy snow fell even at lower elevations.
A flood watch remains in effect through late Friday across the North Bay, where some higher elevations could see up to 10 inches by Thursday, the weather service warned.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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