English > elevate: 3 senses > verb 1, social| Meaning | Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Synonyms | promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise |
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| Narrower | brevet | Promote somebody by brevet, in the military |
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| bring up | Promote from a lower position or rank |
| ennoble, gentle, entitle | Give a title / title to someone |
| prefer, favor, favour | Promote over another |
| spot promote | Promote on the spot |
| tenure | Give life-time employment / employment to |
| Broader | delegate, designate, depute, assign | Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
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| Opposite | demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs | Assign to a lower position |
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| Spanish | anticipar, ascender |
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| Catalan | anticipar |
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| Nouns | elevation | the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something |
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| elevation | the highest level or degree attainable |
English > elevate: 3 senses > verb 2, motion| Meaning | Raise from a lower to a higher position. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Model | The men elevate the chairs |
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| Synonyms | raise, lift, get up, bring up |
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| Cause to | rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise | Move upward |
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| Narrower | chin, chin up | Raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar |
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| get up | Cause to rise |
| heighten | increase the height of |
| hike, hike up, boost | increase |
| hoist, lift, wind | Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help |
| hoist, run up | Raise |
| hoist | Move from one place to another by lifting |
| jack, jack up | Lift with a special device |
| kick up | Cause to rise by kicking |
| levitate | Cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity |
| pick up, lift up, gather up | Take and lift upward |
| pinnacle | Raise on or as if on a pinnacle |
| pump | Raise (gases or fluids) with a pump |
| raise, leaven, prove | Cause to puff up with a leaven |
| rear, erect | Cause to rise up |
| shoulder | Lift onto one's shoulders |
| skid | elevate onto skids |
| trice, trice up | Raise with a line |
| underlay | Raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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| Opposite | lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down | Move something or somebody to a lower position |
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| Spanish | alzar, aumentar, elevar, levantar, subir, traer |
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| Catalan | aixecar, alçar, elevar, enlairar, pujar |
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| Nouns | elevation | distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) |
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| elevation | the event of something being raised upward |
| elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation |
| elevator | lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building |
