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Sky_blue Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

What does "the building's odd elevation" mean?

Hi!

Could someone explain to me what "the building's odd elevation" means?
I can't work out its meaning and will be grateful for your help!

Cheers!
  

Top answer

Could you please post the entire sentence? As far as I can see by now, something may elevate to odd building's floors.

  • Could you please post the entire sentence?
  • As far as I can see by now, something may elevate to odd building's floors.
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Could you please post the entire sentence?

As far as I can see by now, something may elevate to odd building's floors.
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Thanks for your reply!:-)
I'm working on a translation right now and I have a problem how to translate the "odd elevation".
How to understand "odd" in ths sentence?

The entire sentence ->"From the building’s odd elevation, one could observe the weather at its proper scale, see an anvil cloud converge and hang vengefully above the town."
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"odd elevation"  probably means odd floor of the building, where odd = 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th floor and so on till the roof.
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Thank you very much!:-)
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I'm afraid I do not agree. The building is at an odd elevation (= unusual altitude). It is built at an unusual height, high above the town, so that it is among the clouds.
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I concur that the context supports MrM's reading. In all likelihood, he's spot on.

I just have to add, that my first reaction on reading it was in terms of the archetectural use of "elevation," which I believe is a type of archetectural drawing.

5. A scale drawing of the side, front, or rear of a structure. - Fa
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Without a broader context it's very difficult to be sure but, to me, this sounds as if there's an elevated annex built on top of the building, which offers great vistas of the town and the sky.
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"Odd elevation" does seem a strange way to describe a building on a hill.Emotion: smile

Let's call it an odd penthouse. (With hinges on
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Thank you all for your suggestions!:-)
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"the building's odd elevation"

Beating a dead horse, my original thought was that an archetect often uses the term "elevation" to refer to the abstracted face of the building itself, as well as to the drawing which represents it.

5. A scale drawing of the sid

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