Height
[haɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.
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Definition
(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.
(n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.
(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.
(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.
(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
(n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Elevation, altitude, TALLNESS.[2]. Eminence, summit, apex, acme, culminating point.[3]. Hill, mountain, high ground.[4]. Utmost degree.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Altitude, elevation, tallness, summit, exaltation, culmination, top, apex,climax, acme, crisis
ANT:Depth, lowness, depression, littleness, base, abasement
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Definition
n. the condition of being high: distance upwards: that which is elevated: a hill: elevation in rank or excellence: utmost degree.—v.t. Height′en to make higher to advance or improve: to make brighter or more prominent.
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Examples
- It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It had not got to this height in any part of Scotland before the Union. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But in the height of the confusion, a mounted man galloped away to order the relays, and our horses were put to with great speed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When you come to think of it, it's the height of childishness in you--I mean me-- said Mr. Jarndyce, to regard him for a moment as a man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They ranged in height from three to four feet, and were moving restlessly about the enclosure as though searching for food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If the leak is quite low, as at _c_, the issuing stream has a still greater speed and strength, and gushes forth with a force determined by the height of the water above _c_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The height to which the water can be forced in the pipe depends upon the size and construction of the pump and upon the force with which the plunger can be moved. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The height of the leveling strips, plus the height of the bed, lift its surface about six inches from the foundation floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The metal casting of each page is very thin, and when required to be used, it is screwed on to blocks of wood to the same height as ordinary types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- From the shining heights she has scaled and taken, she is never absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Amazing heights of upright grandeur. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was the beginning of the electric-light furor which soon rose to sensational heights. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Thornton, above all people, on whom she had looked down from her imaginary heights till now! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To be convinced of this we need only consider the influence of heights and depths on that faculty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The road to Saltillo leaves the upper or western end of the city under the fire of the guns from these heights. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She would ramble to the most unfrequented places, and scale dangerous heights, that in those unvisited spots she might wrap herself in loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- While it seems a pity to destroy this erroneous idea, suggestive of a heroic climb from the depths to the heights, nothing could be further from the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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