Word Finder - high

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A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

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A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best.

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It was one of the highs of his career.

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A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

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That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.

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A drug that gives such a high.

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A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

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A large high is centred on the Azores.

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The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period.

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Inflation reached a ten-year high.

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The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.

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Today's high was 32°C.

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The highest card dealt or drawn.

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To rise.

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The sun higheth.

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Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.

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The balloon rose high in the sky.   The wall was high.   a high mountain

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Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

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Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

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three feet high   three Mount Everests high

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Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.

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The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

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Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).

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high crimes, the high festival of the sun

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Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.

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high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages

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(in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.

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high latitude, high antiquity

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(in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.

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Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.

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in high spirits

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(of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.

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high living, the high life

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Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.

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a high tone

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(with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.

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(of a body of water) With tall waves.

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Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

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My bank charges me a high interest rate.   I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.   high voltage   high prices   high winds   a high number

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(acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).

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The note was too high for her to sing.

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Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.

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Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

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(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

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Epicures do not cook game before it is high.

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Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.

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(of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.

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In or to an elevated position.

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How high above land did you fly?

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In or at a great value.

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Costs have grown higher this year again.

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At a pitch of great frequency.

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I certainly can't sing that high.

Her instincts on high alarm, she met Xander's gaze.

I need it when I get in the high country.

The shed was piled high with wood.

You always did have a high opinion of yourself.

I thought maybe I wasn't high society material.

When he rose, her feet dangled high off the ground.

I'm not sure who started that story, but it floated around here for my last two years of high school.

This is a good thing because it means that high degrees of utility (the economists' word for "happiness") can be achieved with a wide variety of goods.

I don't know how you keep such a high grade average.

Maybe it was the emotional high they were feeling because of the babies, but something seemed to have shifted their foundation.

I know it's a high price.

Yes, Howie is... high strung.

Neither of them had been in high spirits yesterday.

The thought of him made her feel like a girl in junior high being asked to her first dance.

The woodman stirred the fire until the flames leaped high and the sparks flew out of the roof hole.

What if physical conditions have built up high walls about us?

High up in the light sky hung the full moon.

Beautiful he was, but he also looked high spirited.

His cheekbones were high, his chiseled face matching the chiseled body.

Again, the materials to build the car are abundant; their cost is high because of technology deficiencies around retrieving and refining them, not an underlying rarity.

One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat.

It's fine to have high ideals about not going too far, but the reality of it is, it can happen before you realize what is happening.

With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception.

In high school and college, she played co-ed soccer and basketball.

The great bird was high in the air and flying towards the far-off mountains with all his money.

High maint... who put that in your head?

It would not be the first time, or the last, that ignorance in the world exacted a high price.

An old sickle mower and rake with their high metal seats were the only items she recognized.

Our personal security remains constantly on high alert.

The home is in town with neighbors close by but the high wooden fence in the back yard allows privacy sufficient to cover my night time visit.

The judicial powers are vested in a high court and other federal courts, and the federal judges hold office for life or during good behaviour.

Once they came near to the enclosed Garden of the Clinging Vines, and walking high into the air looked down upon it with much interest.

Nations with high percentages of hungry citizens are not universally food exporters, and we will explore this more later.

Pressed by the throng against the high backs of the chairs, the orators spoke one after another and sometimes two together.

They did it for high level spooks during the cold war.

We could always go back to throw away phones but even those were suspect when our pursuer was a high level government agency.

In Argentina these burdens bear heavily upon the labouring classes, and in years of depression they send away by thousands immigrants unable to meet the high costs of living, For the year 1900 the total expenditures of the national government, 14 provincial governments, and 16 principal cities, were estimated to have been $208,811,925 paper, which is equivalent to $91,877,247 gold, or (at $5.04 per pound stg.) to £18,229,612, ios.

This tribunal differs from similar courts in the states inasmuch as it consists of a single member, called the " president," an officer appointed by the governor-general from among the justices of the High Court of Australia.

The phenomenon is due to very fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the atmosphere that produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light.

This charter provided that no war could be declared nor marriage concluded by the sovereign, nor taxes raised without the assent of the states, that natives were alone eligible for high office, and that the national language should be used in public documents.

With this he began walking in the air toward the high openings, and Dorothy and Zeb followed him.

The final four are at high levels.

Many of the treatments of the ancient world had high degrees of efficacy, all obtained without access to any modern knowledge or equipment.

Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets.

They rode across that bridge into the village of Borodino and thence turned to the left, passing an enormous number of troops and guns, and came to a high knoll where militiamen were digging.

We all liked New England but Quinn in particular, despised the high taxes of his home state.

I ripped these off a high school kid.

On Sunday, June 6, Randy Byrne graduated from high school.

Carmen led them toward the trail to the high ground.

He held her by the back of her neck, high enough off the ground that her tiptoes barely touched the sand, and forced her head back, until the soft skin of her neck was exposed.