And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flieaboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirtabove the grimy steps,[…] and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter)above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Farther north than.[first attested before 1150]
Idaho isabove Utah.
Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.[first attested around 1150–1350]
(figuratively) Higher than; superior to in any respect;surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.[first attested around 1150–1350]
to cutabove average
Even the chief of police is notabove suspicion.
He was alwaysabove reproach.
I thought you said you wereabove these kinds of antics.
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven,above the brightnes of the Sunne, shining round about mee, and them which iourneyed with me.
Higher in rank, status, or position.[first attested around 1150–1350]
to stand head and shouldersabove the rest
1791,John Walker,A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary[…][1], London: Sold by G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T.Cadell, in the Strand,→OCLC, page557:
☞ This word [wrap] is often pronouncedwrop, rhyming withtop, even by ſpeakers muchabove the vulgar.
(Scotland) In addition to;besides.[first attested around 1150–1350]
above and beyond the call of duty
over andabove
Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.[first attested around 1350–1470]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Directlyoverhead; vertically on top of.[first attested before 1150.]
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, inThe Economist[2], volume407, number8835, page80:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the airabove and the life around, it changes everything.
Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.[first attested before 1150.]
1913,Ambrose Bierce,Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories:
Nobody has lived in it since the summer of 1879, and it is fast going to pieces. For some three years before the date mentionedabove, it was occupied by the family of Charles May
1905, Emanuel Swedenborg, chapter 19, inHeaven and Hell:
That angels are men in the most complete form, and enjoy every sense, may be seen above (n. 73-77); and that the light in heaven is far brighter than the light in the world (n. 126-132).
Into or from heaven; in the sky.[first attested around 1150–1350]
He’s in a better place now, floating free as the cloudsabove.
In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.[first attested around 1150–1350]
Higher in rank, power, or position.[first attested around 1150–1350]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
The prepositionabove is often used furtherelliptically as a noun by omitting the associated noun, where it is should be clear what is omitted: e.g.See theabove.
Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "The vertical axis", inThe Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
Laurence Urdang (editor),The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975],→ISBN), page 4
Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 4
