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Levitate meaning
To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. | To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
Example sentences (20)
Her mesmerising painting depicts sand hills and edible tuber roots, worked in wavey horizontal lines of dots alternating in sections of white and yellow ochre to create vertical bands that seem to levitate like a noon haze on a desert horizon.
One of the most compelling signs of superconductivity is that such materials will levitate above magnets, because of the way superconductivity “pushes” a magnetic field out of the substance itself: the Meissner effect.
That’s the promise of this photo frame which uses magnets to levitate a single photo, as well as LED lighting.
Elsewhere, the boom-boom of Burmese techno-rock and the strobe lights of the Levitate nightclub exclude conversation among the heaving dancing mass.
Lee does an excellent job at crafting stylized action, as the film provides many sequences in which the characters appear to levitate in the midst of battle.
Stocks started to climb in the lead-up to Election Day, and as the polls began to close across the United States on Tuesday night and the counting began in earnest, stock futures prices began to levitate further, while Treasury yields rose.
Yippies, Diggers, Hippies, &c., fail to levitate the Pentagon.
A gracious porch encircling the house seems to levitate, anchored by oversized rocking chairs.
The trailer also features short clips of attendees of the festival being unable to speak or move, while some are made levitate following another creepy ritual.
Each of those occurrences would cause me to levitate three feet in the air, shiat twice, and die.
I don’t so much awaken as levitate off the mattress, my body vibrating like a tuning fork.
After Harry falls off his broomstick during a Quidditch match because of the Dementors, Dumbledore becomes uncharacteristically angry with them and uses his wand to cause Harry to levitate safely to the ground.
By using her telekinesis to levitate herself, Marvel Girl can fly at incredible speeds.
Huygens reported an effect he termed "anomalous suspension", in which water appeared to levitate in a glass jar inside his air pump (in fact suspended over an air bubble), but Boyle and Hooke could not replicate this phenomenon in their own pumps.
The hidden part of the "far" (upstage) foot supports the weight of the magician as he appears to levitate one or two inches.
The next album, Levitate (1997), toyed with drum and bass and polarised opinion (long-serving drummer Simon Wolstencroft left halfway through the recording sessions, and was replaced – again – by Karl Burns).
The performer appears to levitate a few inches above the ground.
These psychological subtleties increase the probability that spectators will believe the illusion: *The spectators are informed ahead of time the performer intends to levitate.
The technology uses magnets to levitate the train above the track, reducing friction and allowing higher speeds.
To Louis, Jeanne was both entertaining and a means for him to levitate the country's responsibilities off his shoulder.