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Definition: High And Low |
High And LowAdverb1. Everywhere; "searched high and low". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: High And Low |
| English words defined with "high and low": alkalosis, Anticyclonic storm ♦ blue chip, blue-chip stock, Broad Church ♦ choke, choke coil, choking coil, consonant shifting, constantan, cowberry ♦ Dance of Death, delta rhythm, delta wave ♦ Eureka, Everglade ♦ flood tide, Fore shore, foxberry ♦ half-relief, high-low ♦ In high and low ♦ kwashiorkor ♦ Level of the sea, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, lunar time period ♦ mezzo-relievo, mezzo-rilievo, mountain cranberry, Mountain sorrel, mud flat ♦ Pitch farthing ♦ rising tide, Rubus fruticosus ♦ Saddle-backed, sea level, Siphonarid ♦ Teutonic languages, The more and less, tide ♦ Vaccinium vitis-idaea. (references) |
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Lyrics | High and low. ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
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![]() | Open water between the high and low tide lines at Holland Cliffs Shores.Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | The Lighthouse at Triagoz. Plate 27, Figure 1. Shows high and low water. In: 'Memoir upon the Lighting, Beaconage, and Buoyage of the Coast of France" by M. Leonce Reynaud. Plates. Translated by Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, U. S. N. 1871. Washington. Call Number TC 375 .R45 1871.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
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Health | There are extremes of high and low risk where it is possible to make recommendations about adjuvant systemic therapy. (references) | |
Because of the unique accessibility of almost all infants in the newborn nursery, the consensus panel recommends screening of all newborns, both high and low risk, for hearing impairment prior to hospital discharge. (references) | ||
Assessment tools based on a single risk indicator are therefore unlikely to accurately discriminate between those at high and low risk. Multiple indicators, combined on an appropriate scale and accounting for possible interactions, will certainly be required. (references) | ||
Business | In January and July 1997 retail sales recovered, at the high and low ends, respectively, and both have remained positive since. (references) | |
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Expressions using "high and low": In high and low ♦ search high and low. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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high and low | 31 |
hunting high and low | 7 |
high and low pressure system | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "high and low"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nga të katër anët, kudo (abroad, all over, anywhere, at every turn, everywhere, throughout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | навсякъде (about, abroad, all around, anywhere, around, at every turn, everywhere, over, right-and-left, throughout, wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | všude (all about, everywhere, throughout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyok és kicsinyek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 貴賎 , 貴賤 (all ranks), '輊 (disparity), 高低 (rise and fall), 尊卑 (aristocrat and plebeian), 上下 (an old ceremonial garb, going up and down, praising and blaming, samurai garb, the government and the people, the upper and the lower parts of the body, unloading and loading, up and down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たかひく (rise and fall), きせ" (all ranks, base line, bright line, forestall, steamship), しょうか (anthem, berry, brothel, carol, commercial course, crystallization, digestion, extinguishing a fire, fire fighting, going up and down, hymn of praise, juicy fruit, mercantile house, merchant, nitrification, singing, slight mistake, songs, store, sublimation, summering, the government and the people), そ"ぴ (aristocrat and plebeian, at village expense, existent or non-existent, life or death, village expenses), うえした (praising and blaming, unloading and loading, up and down), "うてい (affirmation, amount of work, best pupil, brotherly love, campus, distance, emperor, filial piety, flight, leading disciple, mine-pit bottom, official, official residence, path length, place of ceremony, positive, public place, revision, rise and fall, run, sail, work schedule), け"ち (disparity, land survey, point of view), じょう' (praising and blaming, unloading and loading, up and down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighhay anday owlay oameni de toate categoriile. (various references) повсюду (abroad, all over, at every turn, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, passim). (various references) svuda (all over, everywhere, turn: at every turn, universally), na svakom mestu. (various references) överallt (all about, anywhere, at every turn, every place, everywhere, on all sides, over all, overall, throughout). (various references) her yerde aramak (search high and low), fellik fellik aramak (search high and low). (various references) beяikli-pesli (one and all). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Presbuthn kai touV ta proswpa qaumazontaV auth h arch kai profhthn didaskonta anoma outoV h oura |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et disperdet Dominus ab Israhel caput et caudam incurvantem et refrenantem die una |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the Lord shal scatere fro Irael the hed and the tail, the inbowende and the shrewende, in o day. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Tungod niini pagaputlon ni Jehova gikan sa Israel ang ulo ug ikog, ang sanga sa palma ug kawayan, sa usa lamang ka adlaw. |
| Croatian | Starješina i odliènik - to je glava; prorok, uèitelj laži - to je rep. |
| Danish | Da hugger HERREN Hoved og Hale af Israel, Palme og Siv på en eneste Dag. |
| Finnish | Vanhin ja arvomies on pää, mutta profeetta, joka valhetta opettaa, on häntä. |
| German | Darum wird der HERR abhauen von Israel beide, Kopf und Schwanz, beide, Ast und Stumpf, auf einen Tag. |
| Haitian Creole | Yon sèl jou a, Seyè a ap koupe ni tèt pèp Izrayèl la ni ke l'. L'ap pini tout chèf pèp la, gwo kou piti. |
| Hungarian | Ezért kivágja az Úr Izráelbõl a fõt és farkat, a pálmaágat és a kákát egy napon. |
| Italian | L'anziano e i notabili sono il capo, il profeta, maestro di menzogna, è la coda. |
| Korean | 이 러 므 로 여 호 와 께 서 하 루 사 이 에 이 스 라 엘 중 에 서 머 리 와 꼬 리 며 종 가 지 와 갈 대 를 끊 으 시 리 니 |
| Maori | Mo reira ka tapahia e Ihowa te upoko o Iharaira me te hiawero, te nikau me te wiwi, i te ra kotahi. |
| Norwegian | Derfor avhugger Herren av Israel både hode og hale, både palmegren og siv, alt på en dag. |
| Portuguese | Pelo que o Senhor cortou de Israel a cabeça e a cauda, o ramo e o junco, num mesmo dia. |
| Rumanian | Deaceea Domnul va smulge din Israel capul wi coada, ramura de finic wi trestia, kntr`o singurq zi. |
| Spanish | Por eso en un mismo día Jehovah cortará de Israel la cabeza y la cola, la palmera y el junco. |
| Swedish | Därför avhugger HERREN på Israel både huvud och svans, han hugger av både palmtopp och sävstrå, allt på en dag -- |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-h-i-l-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: highland. | |
-3 letters: haloing, hidalgo, holding, howling, loading, whaling. | |
-4 letters: algoid, dawing, dialog, doling, dowing, ganoid, hading, hagdon, haling, haloid, hawing, holing, howdah, lading, ladino, lawing, ligand, lowing, wading, waling, whidah. | |
-5 letters: adown, aglow, ahold, algid, algin, align, aloin, along, awing, danio, dingo, diwan, doing, donga, gland, gonad, gonia, gowan, halid, hogan, honda, indol, indow. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 67 68      41 6E 64      4C 6F 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001100 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i g h   A n d   L o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0067 0068      0041 006E 0064      004C 006F 0077 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275737423580702468189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Bible Trace 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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