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The distance from the base of something to the top.

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The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

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The highest point or maximum degree.

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She's at the height of her career.

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A high point.

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An area of land at the top of a cliff.

The mountain ridges vary in height up to 4000 ft.

He's about the same height and weight but he's younger.

She was of above average height with long, dark blonde curls loosely captured at her neck.

One was of medium height and slender, an older man with sharp green eyes the color of forest moss who seemed out of place in the middle of the room.

The height of the walls in the various observatories, the height of the collectors, and the distance they project from the wall vary largely, and sometimes electrometer, and they sometimes leave hardly a trace on the photographic paper.

Flint's Pond, a mile eastward, allowing for the disturbance occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and the smaller intermediate ponds also, sympathize with Walden, and recently attained their greatest height at the same time with the latter.

And that's the height of human wisdom.

It rises on the north side of the Winterberg in the Sauerland, at a height of about 2000 ft.

The man before her – a Watcher by his glowing green eyes and the Original Watcher by his unusual height of nearly six feet – was smiling.

Assistant Director Summerfield announced to the press at the height of the search, more than two hundred officers and volunteers were involved.

It is a lonely lake, situated in extremely wild surroundings at a height of 1153 ft.

It was Friday, a week day, and the height of the season, so he had expected most of the town's folk to be too busy for political small talk.

The kid on the bed was closer to twelve than five, and near her height.

The conference room behind it was large and open, its ceiling cathedral and one wall twice the height of the others.

On October 22, Denisov (who was one of the irregulars) was with his group at the height of the guerrilla enthusiasm.

Changes in the height or construction of buildings, and a greater readiness to make claims on insurance offices, may be contributory causes.

The so-called Celtic type, exemplified by individuals of rather less than average height, brown-haired and brachycephalic, is the fundamental element in the nation and peoples the region between the Seine and the Garonne; in southern France a different type, dolichocephalic, short and with black hair and eyes, predominates.

There are no mountains of any considerable height in the Ogasawara Islands, but the scenery is hilly with occasional bold crags.

Both trees occasionally attain a height of 90 ft.

Is not this the rule also for the height of mountains, regarded as the opposite of valleys?

This tree is of extremely rapid growth, and has been known to attain a height of 70 ft.

Wren's earlier designs have the exterior of the church arranged with one order of columns; the division of the whole height into two orders was an immense gain in increasing the apparent scale of the whole, and makes the exterior of St Paul's very superior to that of St Peter's in Rome, which is utterly dwarfed by the colossal size of the columns and pilasters of its single order.

They are of middle height and dark complexion, with generally straight nose, small round skull, small sharp chin and large full eyes, which are expressive, however, rather of cunning than intelligence.

Dolokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes.

Robur; in the mild climate of Devonshire and Cornwall it has reached a height of TOO ft.

The movement was strongly supported by King Humbert, whose intrepidity in visiting the most dangerous spots at Busca and Naples while the epidemic was at its height, reassuring the panic-stricken inhabitants by his presence, excited the enthusiasm of his people and the admiration of Europe.

The average height of males is 4 ft.

He made new pillars higher and higher, till after ten years he reached the height of sixty feet.

This was erected about 1736, at which time Gondar appears to have been at the height of its prosperity.

It is most elevated in its southern portion, Mt Dabo having a height of 3133 ft.

The walls still stand at many of the angles with a height of from 40 to 50 ft., and indicate an original elevation of several storeys, perhaps six or seven.

If we raise i lb of matter through a foot we do a certain amount of work against the earth's attraction; if we raise 2 lb through the same height we do twice this amount of work, and so on.

This method of working is very suitable for electric dock-side cranes of capacities up to about 5 or 7 tons, and for overhead travellers where the height of lift is moderate.

On arriving at a certain height the lift ceases and the jenny is released, and by the continued pull of the rope, it runs up the jib; on arriving at an adjustable stop, the jenny is again locked, and the load can be lowered out; the hook can then be raised, when the jenny is automatically unlocked, and on paying out the rope the jenny gravitates to its first position, when the load is lowered and the cycle repeated.

The lines are carried on poles, at a sufficient height above the ground, by means of insulators.

Marconi, however, made the important discovery that if his sensitive tube or coherer had one terminal attached to a metal plate lying on the earth, or buried in it, and the other to an insulated plate elevated at a height above the ground, it could detect the presence of very feeble electric waves of a certain kind originating at a great distance.

The district is by no means devoid of fertility, the steep slopes facing the south enjoying so fine a climate as to render them very favorable for the growth of fruit trees, especially the olive, which is cultivated in terraces to a considerable height up the face of the mountains, while the openings of the valleys are generally occupied by towns or villages, some of which have become favorite winter resorts.

The rest of this tract is for the most part a hilly, broken country, of moderate elevation, but Monte Amiata, near Radicofani, an isolated mass of volcanic origin, attains a height of 5650 ft.

The whole of the district known in ancient times as Samnium (a part of which retains the name of Sannio, though officially designated the province of Campobasso) is occupied by an irregular mass of mountains, of much inferior height to those of Central Italy, and broken up into a number of groups, intersected by rivers, which have for the most part a very tortuous course.

In Sardinia it covers the mountain slopes to a considerable height, and in Sicily covers the sides of the Madonie range, reaching a level above 3000 ft.

Under their consuls the Italian burghs rose to a great height of prosperity and splendour.

They gradually entered into the spirit of their age, assumed the style of despots and made use of the humanistic movement, then at its height, to place themselves in a new relation to Italy.

These are of great age, and rise sometimes to a height exceeding 15 ft.

The older road crossed the back of the promontory at the foot of which Terracina stands; in imperial times, probably, the rock was cut away perpendicularly for a height of 120 ft.

In the height of their power the Romans had surveyed and explored all the coasts of the Mediterranean, Italy, Greece, the Balkan Peninsula, Spain, Gaul, western Germany and southern Britain.

It was, however, in the reigns of Severus and his immediate successors that Roman intercourse with India was at its height, and from the writings of Pausanias (c. 174) it appears that direct communication between Rome and China had already taken place.

The increasing number of measurements of the height of land in all continents and islands, and the very detailed levellings in those countries which have been thoroughly surveyed, enable the average elevation of the land above sea-level to be fairly estimated, although many vast gaps in accurate knowledge remain, and the estimate is not an exact one.

Sir John Murray deduced the mean height of the land of the globe as about 2250 ft.

The mean height deduced for the land was 2300 ft.

The varieties of coast-lines were reduced to an exact classification by Richthofen, who grouped them according to the height and slope of the land into cliff-coasts (Steilkiisten)- narrow beach coasts with cliffs, wide beach coasts with cliffs, and 1 Rumpf, in German, the language in which this distinction was first made.