different between height vs rapture

English

Alternative forms

• highth (obsolete)
• heighth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English heighte, hei?þe, from Old English h?ahþu, h?hþo, h?ehþo (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþ? (compare *hauhaz). Corresponds to high +? -th.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /ha?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: hight
• Hyphenation: height

Noun

height (countable and uncountable, plural heights)

1. The distance from the base of something to the top.
2. (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.

   Coordinate terms: (horizontal dimension) backness, (lip articulation) roundedness, length, nasalization, reduction

3. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
4. The highest point or maximum degree.
   • 2004, Peter Bondanella, Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, chapter 4, 173–174:

     During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as crooked as the gang leaders themselves.

5. A high point.
   1. A mountain, especially a very high one.
6. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
7. (mathematics) The amplitude of a sine function

Synonyms

• (highest point): See also Thesaurus:apex

Antonyms

• (distance from bottom to top): depth

Derived terms

Related terms

• high

Translations

Further reading

• height on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Highet, eighth, highte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin rapt?ra, future active participle of rapi? (“snatch, carry off”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æpt??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??apt??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???pt??/
• Rhymes: -æpt??(?)

Noun

rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)

1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VII

     My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."

2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
   • 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:

     With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.

6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Related terms

• rapt

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “rapture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Verb

rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)

1. (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
   • 2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138:

     She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.

2. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
3. (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
   • 2001, Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel, page 320:

     "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […] "

   • 2007, Leon L. Combs, A Search For Reality page 46

     These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.

   • 2010, Gerald Mizejewski, Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)

     The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]

   • 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie ?ISBN

     “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured. But, Baptists get raptured, don't they?”

4. (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
5. (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
   • 1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158:

     And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

   • 2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75:

     Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.

   • 2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121:

     They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.

Anagrams

• parture

Latin

Participle

rapt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of rapt?rus