to levitate
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8.4
- verb
- /ˈlɛvɪˌteɪt/
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levitar
- The magician made the assistant levitate high above the stage during the performance.
- levitate by a magnet
- levitating objects
Let's get inside and levitate some stuff.
- Let's get inside and levitate some stuff.
- There's the sequence where my character levitates off the ground.
- Latoya Amens, from Indiana, said her three children walked up walls, levitated and spoke in voices.
- Well, now a lab, actually a set of labs, one in based in Brazil, had been able to levitate an object just using sound.
- So she's running and try not to, you know, levitate up, but those bands are keeping her down on the treadmill.
- Yeah, I I got electricity, that's cool, but we'll be levitating soon and I would can't even begin to imagine what we are capable of.
- It turns out that you can magnetically levitate the ends of the shaft so that they don't actually touch the bearing, and you have a frictionless bearing.
- But now we're not talking about levitating a little magnet in with a little bit of copper, we're talking about inducing currents that wrap around an entire planet.
Examples
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Once under the influence, the boy levitated and spoke in tongues.
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To levitate an object, you must channel your internal power with an Abracadabra.
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I'll light it first and levitate it when it goes.
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As if you started to levitate off the carpet.
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Can levitate any object up to a ton.
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"Pretty soon we'll just levitate to the next floor," she muttered.
Fiction book (2000) -
There's the sequence where my character levitates off the ground.
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I've found my new passion in life levitating things.
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In principle, even a child can be levitated by a magnet, as we shall see below.
Academic text (1998) -
But science can't explain everything, such as a person levitating two feet off the ground during an exorcism.
Antonyms
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Morphology
levitate = levit + ate
Although built from the Latin combining form 'levit-' + the productive suffix '-ate', the root 'levit-' is not a standalone English word, so learners cannot reliably infer the meaning from familiar English components.
Etymology
The word levitate comes from the Latin root levis meaning 'light' or 'not heavy', and the English word levity shares this idea. So to levitate is to become so 'light' that you rise and float in the air.