Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




ALT   /ɑlt/   Listen
ALT

noun
1.
Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).  Synonyms: altitude, EL, elevation.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Alt" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought that the addresses and petitions were very serious—no one, that is to say, except a Dalmatian publicist called Spiridon Gop[vc]evi['c], who printed a large number of them in his handsome, illustrated book, Makedonien und Alt-Serbien (Vienna, 1889). With regard to Gop[vc]evi['c] as a savant—he says that all the Macedonian Slavs are Serbs—and there are equally uncompromising Bulgarian authors—the celebrated Slavist Jagi['c] says that he is sorry for the good paper which was ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein

... my work plain an' true till I drops!—so there!— an' I'm much obliged to ye, Mr. Bayliss, an' mebbe ye'll tell me where to put the two 'underd pounds so as I don't lose it, for I never 'ad so much money in my life, an' if any one gets to 'ear of it I'll 'ave all the 'alt an' lame an' blind round me in a jiffy. An' as for keepin' money, I never could—an' p'raps it 'ud be best for Mr. Robin to look arter it—-" Here she stopped, out of ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli

... the first octave above the treble staff. Thus e.g., "C in alt" is the C represented by the second added ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens

... spira obtusa, conoidea; anfractus 4, convexiusculi, rapide accrescentes, ultimus basi subcompressus; apertura per-obliqua, oblonga, intus alba; peristoma late reflexum, nigrum. Diam. maj. 28, min. 23, alt. ...
— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

... to the English general repairing to the court of Charles XII. at Dresden. He left the Hague on the 20th April accordingly; and after visiting Hanover on the way, where, as usual, there were some jealousies to appease, arrived at the Swedish camp of Alt-Ranstadt on the 28th. The Duke drove immediately to the headquarters of Count Piper, from whom he received the most flattering assurance of the gratification which the Swedish monarch had felt at his arrival. He was shortly after introduced to the monarch, to whom he delivered ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org