Crossword clues for levitate
levitate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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]
Levitate \Lev"i*tate\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. i. [L. levitas,
-atis, lightness. See Levity.]
To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding
medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
--Sir.
J. Herschel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "to rise by virtue of lightness," from Latin levitas "lightness," patterned in English on gravitate. Sense of "raise (a person) into the air" is mainly from spiritualism (1870s). Related: Levitated; levitating.
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
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]
Wikipedia
Levitate is an album (the 19th) by The Fall, released in 1997 on Artful Records. Levitate became the last album to feature two long-time Fall members, drummer Karl Burns and bass player Steve Hanley (whose playing was once described by Smith as the defining element of the group's music).
The album remains out of print to date, as Artful went bankrupt in the early 2000.
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, Levitate features no piano solos. Many of the songs also feature lyrical motifs of science and nature.
The title track was used in Spike Lee's documentary Kobe Doin' Work. Invisible was featured in the Bobcat Goldthwait movie World's Greatest Dad, in which Hornsby also made a cameo appearance as himself.
Much like the 2004 release Halcyon Days, Levitate features guest artists and those close to Hornsby, most notably Eric Clapton, Hornsby's twin sons Russell and Keith, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and Hornsby's nephew R.S. Hornsby, who was killed in a car accident less than a week after recording a memorable guitar solo on "Continents Drift." The album has been dedicated to his memory.
"Levitate (Digital Dog club mix)" is a song by American rock group Hollywood Undead and was released as the lead single from their first remix album, American Tragedy Redux. It is the first song on the official track list and was added to rock radio formats on October 18, 2011. The song "Levitate" was originally featured on Hollywood Undead's latest studio album American Tragedy (album) but was not featured as a single. The remix of the song (the first version to actually be released as a single) was heavily promoted over the band's Facebook page, where its official video debuted. A rock version of "Levitate" was also released onto iTunes as a single on December 6, 2011.
"Levitate" is a song by the British band Hadouken!. It was released on 20 January 2013 as the fifth single from their third studio album Every Weekend (2013). It was produced by British duo Loadstar and Dutch bass music trio Noisia (under their Nightwatch alias). The song was made popular by the band's People Are Awesome 2013 viral video that has accumulated over 120 million YouTube views.
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.