N. height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch,
loftiness,
sublimity, tallness,
stature,
procerity, prominence,
colossus,
giant,
grenadier,
giraffe,
camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto,
butte,
monticle, fell,
knap, cape,
headland,
foreland,
promontory, ridge, hog's back,
dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down,
moor,
moorland,
alp, uplands, highlands, heights &c. (summit), 210,
knob,
loma, pena, picacho,
tump,
knoll,
hummock,
hillock,
barrow,
mound,
mole, steeps,
bluff,
cliff,
craig,
tor,
peak,
pike,
clough,
escarpment, edge,
ledge,
brae, dizzy height, tower,
pillar, column,
obelisk, monument,
steeple,
spire,
minaret,
campanile,
turret, dome,
cupola, skyscraper, pole,
pikestaff,
maypole,
flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast,
ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide,
altimetry, batophobia,
satellite, spy-in-the-sky
V. be high, tower,
soar, command,
hover, hover over, fly over, orbit, be in orbit, cap,
culminate,
overhang, hang over,
impend,
beetle,
bestride,
ride, mount,
perch,
surmount, cover, overtop, stand on tiptoe, become high, grow higher, grow taller,
upgrow, rise, send into orbit, render high,
heighten Adj. high, elevated, eminent,
exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic,
patagonian, towering,
beetling,
soaring, hanging, elevated, upper, highest, high reaching,
insessorial,
perching,
upland,
moorland, hilly,
knobby, mountainous, alpine,
subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching,
aerial, overhanging,
incumbent, overlying,
superincumbent,
supernatant,
superimposed, prominent &c. c, 250, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple,
lanky Adv. on high, high up,
aloft, up, above,
aloof, overhead, airwind,
upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom
Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto
N. navigation, aquatics, boating,
yachting, ship,
oar,
paddle, screw, sail,
canvas, aileron,
natation,
swimming, fin,
flipper, fish's tail,
aerostation,
aerostatics,
aeronautics, balloonery,
balloon,
ballooning,
aviation, airmanship, flying, flight,
volitation, wing,
pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail,
cruise, passage,
circumnavigation,
periplus,
headway,
sternway,
leeway,
fairway, mariner, flight,
trip,
shuttle, run, airlift
V. sail, put to sea, take ship, get under way, set sail, spread sail, spread canvas, gather way, have way on, make sail, carry sail, plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean, walk the waters,
navigate,
warp,
luff,
scud,
boom,
kedge, drift, course,
cruise, coast, hug the shore, hug the land,
circumnavigate, ply the oar, row,
paddle, pull,
scull,
punt, steam,
swim,
float, buffet the waves, ride the storm,
skim, effleurer,
dive,
wade, fly, be wafted,
hover,
soar,
flutter,
jet, orbit,
rocket, take wing, take a flight, take off,
ascend, blast off, land,
alight, wing one's flight, wing one's way, aviate,
parachute,
jump,
glide Adj. sailing,
volant,
aerostatic,
seafaring,
nautical, maritime, naval,
seagoing, coasting,
afloat, navigable,
aerial,
aeronautic,
grallatory Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit
Phr. bon voyage, "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale"
N. gaseity,
vaporousness,
flatulence, # flatulency,
volatility,
aeration,
aerification, elastic fluid, gas, air,
vapor, ether, steam, essence,
fume,
reek,
effluvium,
flatus, cloud, ammonia, ammoniacal gas, volatile alkali,
vacuum, partial vacuum,
pneumatics, pneumatostatics,
aerostatics,
aerodynamics, gasmeter,
gasometer,
air bladder, swimming bladder, sound (of a fish)
Air Roget’s Thesaurus §338 N. air, common air, atmospheric air, # atmosphere,
aerosphere, open air, sky,
welkin, blue sky, cloud, weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer,
isobar,
aerology,
aerometry,
aeroscopy,
aeroscopy,
aerography,
meteorology,
climatology,
pneumatics, eudioscope,
baroscope,
aeroscope,
eudiometer,
barometer,
aerometer,
aneroid,
baroscope, weather gauge, weather glass, weather cock, exposure to the air, exposure to the weather,
ventilation,
aerostation,
aeronautics,
aeronaut Adv. in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco, sub jove dio
