high
suomi-englanti sanakirjahigh englannista suomeksi
humalassa oleva, humalassa
varakkaasti
korkea-arvoinen
korkealle
korkeus
huumeessa olo, humala
korkealla
korkea
lukio
pilaantuva, pahanhajuinen
korkeapaine
iso vaihde
hyväntuulinen
hyvä tuuli
huippu
high englanniksi
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
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{{quote-book|en|year=1612|author=Michael Drayton|title=Poly-Olbion|section=song 13 p. 214|sectionurl=http://poly-olbion.exeter.ac.uk/the-text/full-text/song-13/
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Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
(RQ:Travers Cuckoo in the Nest)
{{quote-text|en|year=1919|author=Martha Van Rensselaer; Flora Rose; Helen Canon|title=A Manual of Home-Making|page=376
Above the batter's shoulders.
Pertaining to (''or, especially of a language'': spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
(RQ:Dickens Little Dorrit)
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Sheila Finch|title=Shaper's Legacy|isbn=1434401596|page=122
Most exalted; foremost.
Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
(RQ:Spenser Amoretti)
1709-1710, (w), ''Reflections on Learning''
- High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
{{quote-text|en|year=1802|author=William Wordsworth|title=England 1802
Extreme, excessive; (ng) very traditionalist and conservative.
(quote-book)|url=https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240894050/99840237|page=33|text=Furder, what wil you answeare for your keping a daye, cessation &c to'' St. Michael & al Angells''? how wil you excuse your self of most high idolatrie, advancing your self in thinges you neuer sawe, rashlie puffed vp of your fleshlie minde, and not holding the heade, depriuing others of their Crowne?
{{quote-book|en|year=1858|author=Joseph Howe|title=Speeches and Public Letters|page=346
(quote-book)|chapter=Introductory Notice|mainauthor=Alexis de Tocqueville|translator=Henry Reeve|title=Democracy in America|page=xvi|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BGgFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR16|text=His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.
{{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Jesse D. Geller; John C. Norcross; David E. Orlinsky|title=The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198030621|page=69
Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
1970, (w), ''High Time'', on the album ''Workingman's Dead''
- I was having a high time, living the good life.
Luxurious; rich.
{{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Rose Maria McCarthy Anding.|title=High Heels, Honey Lips, & White Powder
Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
(RQ:KJV) is sinne.
(RQ:Clarendon History)
2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, ''The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends'' ((ISBN)), chapter four:
- I'm not that high about the relationship.
With tall waves.
(cap) (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
{{quote-text|en|year=1966|title=Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography: Papers|page=242
{{quote-book|en|year=1990|author=International Union of Game Biologists|publisher=Congress|title=Transactions, the XIXth IUGB Congress: Population dynamics|page=219
{{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=Peter John Hodum|title=Foraging Ecology and Reproductive Energetics of Antarctic Fulmarine Petrels|page=8
{{quote-book|en|year=2004|title=Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung|volume=481-483|page=1
2007, ''Zoological Studies'', volume 46, iissues 1-3, page 371:
- This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
(cap), great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
(RQ:Dryden Aeneis)
Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, (n-g)" when predicative).
{{quote-text|en|year=1907|title=The American Exporter|volume=60|page=101
Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
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.
Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
{{quote-text|en|year=1894|title=Harper's Magazine|volume=88|page=910
Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
(senseid) (cap); 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.
Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
In or to an elevated position.
In or at a great value.
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
(quote-song)|album=Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection|year=2012|artist=Katy Perry|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3D5FwwtNVM|text=Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
{{quote-journal|en|date=15 May 2013|author=Daniel Taylor|journal=The Guardian|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine=The Economist
A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
(senseid) To rise.
(senseid) (alternative form of)
high (gl)
to be high (gl)
to be excited
to use drugs
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