Higher
[ˈhaɪə(r)] or ['haɪɚ]
Definition
(adj.) of education beyond the secondary level; 'higher education'; 'higher learning' .
(adj.) advanced in complexity or elaboration; 'higher finance'; 'higher mathematics' .
Inputed by Erma--From WordNet
Examples
- The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And it was so delightful that this higher degree of sympathy should be reached through their interest in Lily Bart! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It makes him so much higher in his neighbouring collier's eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This, in turn, has opened up possibilities of much higher speed and greater efficiency in the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At the same time, we must not lose sight of our own higher object. Plato. The Republic.
- His shirt-sleeves were turned up at the wrists, but no higher. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The higher above me, so much the better. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The higher his deserts, the more improper for me ever to have thought of him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We looked at each other, and then we looked at the tide, oozing in smoothly, higher and higher, over the Shivering Sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The cave that I faced was not one of those that I had seen from the ground, and which lay much higher, possibly a thousand feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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