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Rise as if by magic
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levitate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Followers claim that she has levitated frequently during prayer. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He made himself levitate over the capital. ▪ They marched innocently off to the Pentagon to try to levitate it and put flowers in ...
Wikipedia
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Levitate is the tenth studio album by Bruce Hornsby . It was Hornsby's third studio album with his touring band, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, and was his first release with Verve Records . Somewhat a musical departure for Hornsby and the Noisemakers, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levitate \Lev"i*tate\, v. t. (Spiritualism) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. [Cant]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. 2 (context intransitive English) To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman" be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate" [syn: hover ]
Usage examples of levitate.
Gray pictured the cylinder containing the super-conducting amalgam, how it had levitated.
Beck rang several upward-lilting arpeggios on his little bells as Autumn levitated from her split, slowly scissoring her legs together again and levering herself upright on the rope.
He levitated the instrument to his mouth, licked the pablum from it, and sent it back to the bowl for more.
Their elfin steeds were better adapted to the world of mortalkind, and able to make swifter progress while levitating.
Pradhan Mantri Sumantra saw Guru Vashishta levitating as he entered the yoga chamber.
The cups and saucers are in the air, the cloth levitating under them, the table itself is notional, we would feel uncomfortable eating our dinner without it, in fact it is a vibration as unsolid as ourselves.
Sri Lanka, and spent time with a lama in Bhutan who insisted he could teach me how to levitate.
Stamped or molded into the brass was an image that reminded me vaguely of one of the chops a stylized figure holding a long staff over its head, apparently levitating.
Pleased with their ferocious folkways, she had joined the game with no weapons save her own transvolutionary gifts, shifting just outside their space to make herself invisible in ambush, levitating in pursuit, killing with her nimbus.
And then Hala jerked back, and her feet left the ground in small levitating increments until Mathew stared up, slack-jawed, at the soles of her feet.
Levitation was a strain, and since they all had hosts it was so much easier to have their hosts move them, when moving was necessary, than to levitate.
At one point the manfish saw, with a terror he denied, a great gray mass that levitated toward him from below.
It is a Meissner field that allows superconductors to levitate in a magnetic field.
Litholt, levitating to the top of the Stone Column and drawing Mym with her so they could see eye to eye with the giants.
She levitated the ridgepole, which had been too heavy for them to hoist.