Both Uses
altitude
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The pilot, Major Ray Dollins, tried to gain altitude as he headed out over the ocean so as to avoid a deadly crash into the Marines headed for the beach, but his plane was too badly damaged.†
Chpt 7.
- As the forty-man line snaked upward, gained altitude, and grew visible against the near-vertical face of the mountain, it attracted attention.†
Chpt 11. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(altitude) elevation (height) -- typically above sea level or above the earth's surface
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)