Word Finder - highest

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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.

Virgil is spoken of in the highest terms in ii.

Next comes China, with the second highest number of hungry people at 130.4 million.

They are the highest reality.

We know that a hill is not highest at its narrowest part.

My cousin built his house on the vertex of the highest hill in the county.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

Natasha, on the other hand, having put on her best gown, was in the highest spirits.

To sing this, Elisabeth would have had to be classically trained, and she would need to sing the highest end of her range if she was indeed a mezzo-soprano.

At the early age of sixteen he attained one of the highest dignities of the order, being made grand prior of France.

Simple roofs in general use with a double slope are the " coupled rafter roofs," the rafters meeting at the highest point upon a horizontal ridge-piece which stiffens the framework and gives a level ridge-line.

One of the most essential points in a good micrometer is that all the webs shall be so nearly in the same plane as to be well in focus together under the highest powers used, and at the same time absolutely free from " fiddling."

The last years of his life were troubled by a new period of storm and stress which called for his highest powers of calculation and self-control.

The highest known peak in the main range is that of Gunong Korbu, 7217 ft.

The highest wisdom has but one science--the science of the whole--the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

At that time, as always happens, the highest society that met at court and at the grand balls was divided into several circles, each with its own particular tone.

Had he not seen the possibility of, and passionately desired, the regeneration of the sinful human race, and his own progress to the highest degree of perfection?

The history, indeed, of many a word lies hid in its equivocal uses; and it in no way derogates from the dignity of the highest poetry to gain strength and variety from the ingenious application of the same sounds to different senses, any more than from the contrivances of rhythm or the accompaniment of imitative sounds.

The system is hermetically sealed after being pumped full of water, an expansion chamber in the shape of a pipe of larger dimensions being provided at the top of the system above the highest point of circulation.

It was the middlemost and the highest of the three steep crags which rise from the valley of the Kur, at some distance to the west or north-west of Nakshi Rustam.

He retired into what Bright called the "Cave of Adullam," and opposed the bill in a series of brilliant speeches, which raised his reputation as an orator to its highest point and effectually caused the downfall of the government.

The surface of the summit (the highest point is variously stated at 3549, 35 82 and 3850 ft.) is broken into small valleys and hills, and is covered with luxuriant vegetation, its flora including the superb orchid Disa grandiflora and the well-known silver tree.

In the eastern and western portions of this city are situated the residences of the highest dignitaries of the empire; while beyond its confines on the south stand the offices of the six of f icial boards which direct the affairs of the eighteen provinces.

There Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just gradations from the low shrubs of the shore to the highest trees.

Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes--love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt.

The highest office in connexion with the Cinque Ports is that of the lord warden, who also acts as governor of Dover Castle, and has a maritime jurisdiction (vide infra) as admiral of the ports.

The kingdom reached its highest point of importance during the reign of Solomon, but, shortly after his death, it was broken up by the rebellion of Jeroboam, who founded the separate kingdom of Israel with its capital at Shechem.

The influence of the highest tides is felt at Pessac, a distance of 100 m.

The island is diversified in its surface, and is traversed from north to south by an elevated mountain range, the highest point of which is called Atairo (anc. Atabyris or Atabyrium) (4560 ft.).

In Victoria the greatest elevation is reached in the peaks of Mount Bogong (6508 ft.) and Mount Feathertop (6303 ft.), both of which lie north of the Dividing Range; in the main range Mount Hotham (6100 ft.) and Mount Cobberas (6025 ft.) are the highest summits.

The mass widens out once more in the Liverpool Range, where the highest peak, Mount Oxley, reaches 4500 ft., and farther north, in the New England Range, Ben Lomond reaches an elevation of 5000 ft.

The surface on the whole is hilly and is partly occupied by offshoots of the Thuringian Forest; the highest summits are found in the eastern half, where the Kieferle reaches 2849 ft.

The highest form of the doctrine is scientific materialism, by which term is meant the doctrine so commonly adopted by the physicist, zoologist and biologist.

The highest mountain is believed to be Gunong Tahan, which forms part of an isolated range on the eastern side, between Pahang and Kelantan, and is estimated at about 8000 ft.

The interior is in the form of a basilica, the double aisles being borne by ancient columns, and contains ambones and a candelabrum of 1311, the former resting on columns supported by lions, and decorated with reliefs and coloured marble mosaic. The castle at the highest point of the town was erected in the 14th century.

From the conception of a universal order in the universe he reasons to a Supreme Being, who has created it and who has conferred upon every man in harmony with it the aim of his existence, leading to his highest good.

His conduct, judged not by a modern standard, but by the ideas of his age, will be found compatible with the highest Christian charity, as that of the duke with sound political prudence.

It runs a remarkably straight course westward through a narrow trough from Daolatyar to Obeh, amidst the bleak wind-swept uplands of the highest central elevations in Afghanistan.

The province is generally hilly, the highest hills occurring in the east and west.

In the south-west are the Taunus, bordering the Main, and the Westerwald, west of the Lahn, in which the highest points respectively are the Grosser Feldberg (2887 ft.) and the Fuchskauten (2155 ft.).

This is the highest point in the northern Apennines, and belongs to a group of summits of nearly equal altitude; the range which is continued thence between Tuscany and what are now known as the Emilian provinces presents a continuous ridge from the mountains at the head of the Val di Mugello (due north of Florence) to the point where they are traversed by the celebrated Furlo Pass.

The highest point in this part of the range is the Monte Falterona, above the sources of the Arno, which attains 5410 ft.

The line of the highest summits and of the watershed ranges is about 30 to 40 m.

In this part of the range almost all the highest points of the Apennines are found.

Nor do the highest summits form a continuous ridge of great altitude for any considerable distance; they are rather a series of groups separated by tracts of very inferior elevation forming natural passes across the range, and broken in some places (as is the case in almost all limestone countries) by the waters from the upland valleys turning suddenly at right angles, and breaking through the mountain ranges which bound them.

This volcanic tract extends across the Campagna of Rome, till it rises again in the lofty group of the Alban hills, the highest summit of which, the Monte Cavo, is 3160 ft.

Its highest point is called Aspromonte (6420 ft.).

Monte Venda, their highest peak, is 1890 ft.

The Punta del Nasone, the highest point of Somma, is 3714 ft.

Its highest peak, the Pizzuto di Melfi, attains an elevation of 4365 ft.

Founded in 1735 by the marquis Carlo Ginori, they maintained a reputation of the very highest kind down to about 1860; but since then they have not kept pace with their younger rivals in other lands.