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HIGH-REACHING

Definition: HIGH-REACHING

HIGH-REACHING

Adjective

1. Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HIGH-REACHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Synonyms within Context: HIGH-REACHING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desire

Aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "HIGH-REACHING"

Words rhyming with "HIGH-REACHING" (pronounced 'High"-reach`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Fault-finding, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HIGH-REACHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-h-h-h-i-i-n-r"

-3 letters: highchair.

-4 letters: chairing, charging, reaching, reaginic.

-5 letters: anergic, archine, arching, chagrin, changer, charing, chigger, gearing, gracing, hearing, heiring, hircine, naggier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HIGH-REACHING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 47 48 2D 52 45 41 43 48 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00101101 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#45 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0047 0048 002D 0052 0045 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42434142155239353742434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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