higher
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Definitions ofhigher
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
Example: "The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain"
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
Example: "three feet high three Mount Everests high"
- Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Example: "The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish."
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
Example: "high crimes, the high festival of the sun"
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
Example: "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"
- (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
Example: "high latitude, high antiquity"
- (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
Example: "in high spirits"
- (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
Example: "high living, the high life"
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
Example: "a high tone"
- (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
- (of a body of water) With tall waves.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Example: "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"
- (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
Example: "The note was too high for her to sing."
- Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Example: "Epicures do not cook game before it is high."
- 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.
- (of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
- In or to an elevated position.
Example: "How high above land did you fly?"
- In or at a great value.
Example: "Costs have grown higher this year again."
- At a pitch of great frequency.
Example: "I certainly can't sing that high."
- A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
- To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
- To ascend.
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