Word Finder - higher

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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.

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A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.

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To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.

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To ascend.

He loved to climb hills, the higher the better.

At least I serve a higher cause than myself.

This is so much higher than my grade level I'm getting a nose bleed.

They climbed higher, circling the open area in front of the entrance, but still saw nothing.

You cannot marry into a higher rung on the ladder.

Dean repeated at a higher volume.

It was high, much higher than he could reach.

It must be remembered that speech contributed in no way to her fundamental education, though without the ability to speak she could hardly have gone to higher schools and to college.

The air was heavy and fragrant, the wet, solid sand near the ocean welcome after her initial attempt to keep up in the sugary sand higher up the beach.

Fred understood this and volunteered to ski with Donnie while the others took a couple of runs from the higher elevations.

The higher on your back it is, the easier to carry, Mrs. Watson instructed.

I am something altogether different and higher.'

Perhaps when it came to Elisabeth, there existed a higher standard.

My best guess is that you two are soul-mates, destined to be together, and you have a higher purpose.

Ed whinnied down by the barn, and then nickered in a higher tone.

The snow had melted on the mountain trail, and the dry gray rocks provided sufficient traction for Ed's hooves as they climbed higher into the hills.

He further tells us this pitch was a tone, nearly a tone and a half, higher than a suitable church pitch (Chorton), for which he gives a diagram.

I can remember when it was a foot or two lower, and also when it was at least five feet higher, than when I lived by it.

I'll have to go upstairs and somehow convince someone higher.

Lift tickets were purchased, at prices far higher than the last time Dean had skied.

The two men first boarded chair lift number ten and ten and a half minutes later were eighteen hundred feet higher than Fred and Donnie, at nearly eleven thousand feet elevation.

Elisabeth asked Sam, "What kind of higher purpose are you talking about?"

Admittedly, the identification elevated the entire business to a higher, more serious level of concern.

Its main features were strictly Presbyterian, but the minister was greatly superior to the elder, and the state had wide powers especially in the nomination of higher officers.

For higher and professional education there are two national universities at Buenos Aires and Cordoba, and three provincial universities, at La Plata, Santa Fe and Parana, which comprise faculties of law, medicine and engineering, in addition to the usual courses in arts and science.

The higher officials had endowments and official residences.

High districts covered with oaks and chestnuts succeed to this almost tropical vegetation; a little higher up and we reach the elevated regions of the Pollino and the Sila, covered with firs and pines, and affording rich pastures even in the midst of summer, when heavy dews and light frosts succeed each other in July and August, and snow begins to appear at the end of September or early in October.

In the higher plants the structures which have been often described as centrosomes are too indefinite in their constitution.

In the higher plants, after the separation of the daughter nuclei, minute granular swellingc appear, in the equatorial region, on the connecting fibres which still persist between the two nuclei, to form what is called the cell-plate.

In a few cases both among the higher and the lower plants, of which the formation of spores in the ascus is a typical example, new cells are formed by the aggregation of portions of the cytoplasm around the nuclei which become delimited from the rest of the cell iontents by a membrane.

The strongest direct evidence seems to be that the nuclear substances are the only parts of the cells which are always equivalent in quantity, and that in the higher plants and animals the male organ or spermatozoid is composed almost entirely of the nucleus, and that the male nucleus is carried into the female cell without a particle of cytoplasm.i Since, however, the nucleus of the female cell is always accompanied by a larger or smaller quantity of cytoplasm, and that in a large majority of the power plants and animals the male cell also contains cytoplasm, it cannot yet be definitely stated that the cytoplasm does not play some part in the process.

The researches of the last twenty years have shown that the structure of the nucleus and the phenomena of nuclear division in these lower forms conforms in all essential details to those in the higher plants.

The formation of the conducting tubes or secretory sacs which occur in all parts of the higher plants is due either to the elongation of single cells or to the fusion of cells together in rows by the absorption of the cell-walls separating them.

The leaf of the higher plants will be taken as the illustrative case because it is the most plastic of the members, the one, that is, which presents the greatest variety of adaptations, and because it has been most thoroughly studied.

Darwins expression the nature of the organism has been interpreted in the preceding paragraph to mean an inherent tendency towards higher organization; that interpretation may now be completed by adding that the organism is susceptible to, and can respond to, the action of external conditions.

AdaptationThe morphological and physiological differentiation of the plant-body has, so far, been attributed to (I) the nature of the organism, that is to its inherent tendency towards higher organization, and (2) to the indefinite results of the external conditions acting as a stimulus which excites the organism to variation, but does not direct the course of variation.

But there is a higher point of view than that of story-telling.

The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.

Westlake plugged forward, his nose nearly at the windshield, which was spider-webbed with nicks and cracks, as the old car crawled higher.

The higher alcohols such as propyl, isobutyl, amyl, capryl, oenanthyl and caproyl, have been identified; and the amount of these vary according to the different conditions of the fermentation.

Meaning in general the "king's court," it is difficult to define the curia regis with precision, but it is important and interesting because it is the germ from which the higher courts of law, the privy council and the cabinet, have sprung.

Snows are frequent during the winter, and sometimes deep in the higher plateau and mountain districts.

It lies on the south bank of the Thames and extends up the hills above the shore, many villas having been erected on the higher ground.

In this way the scale can be viewed by a microscope of much higher magnifying power than can be employed for the photographed spectrum.

The mortality from malaria in 1902 was higher than for any other part of Italy-1037 persons, or 154 per 100,000 (Basilicata, 141; Apulia, 104; Calabria, 77; Sicily, 76; province of Rome, 27).

The higher regions produce cork trees, oaks, pines, chestnuts, &c., but the forests have been largely destroyed by speculators, who burned the trees for charcoal and potash, purchasing them on a large scale from the state.

A considerable portion of Sardinia, especially in the higher regions, is devoted to pasture.

In 1860 he was appointed to the professorship of higher geometry at the university of Bologna, and in 1866 to that of higher geometry and graphical statics at the higher technical college of Milan.

His life was devoted to the study of higher geometry and reforming the more advanced mathematical teaching of Italy.