elve

• Rhymes: -ɛlv

From e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources).[1]

elve (plural elves)

1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
   • 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges‎:

     It is ikely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.

• blue starter
• bluejet
• gigantic jet
• gnome
• pixie
• red sprite
• sprelve
• sprite halo
• sprite
• transient luminous events
• troll
• upward lightning

elve (plural elves)

1. Obsolete form of elf.
   • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 61:

     Is it the offspring of thoughtless animal spirits, or the elve of fancy continually flitting round the expected pleasure?

   Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.

• EELV, EVEL, elev., veel, vele

elv +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlvɛ]
• Hyphenation: el‧ve

elve

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of elv

From French élever.

• IPA^(key): /elve/

elve

1. high

   Synonym: ot

elve (medial form elve)

1. to raise
2. to heighten
3. to bring up

• elevasion