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HIGH RISE

Crosswords: HIGH RISE

Etymologies containing "HIGH RISE": Parvenu. (references)

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Modern Usage: HIGH RISE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

High Rise (1973)

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

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Commercial Usage: HIGH RISE

DomainTitle

Books

  • The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake (reference)

  • The High Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Puzzling Possum (I Can Read) (reference)

  • Heights: Overcoming the Fear of Heights, Including High Rise Office & Apartment Buildings (I Can Do It) (reference)

  • High Rise Heroics (Career Adventures Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: HIGH RISE

Photos:
HIGH RISE

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Photo Album: HIGH RISE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Exterior of New York City high rise building with "A" marking where Arnold Rothstein was shot and "B" marking where revolver found. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: HIGH RISE

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Imports of construction and building products are generally intended for high rise office buildings and high-end, luxury homes. (references)

Residential high rise construction is even more heavily dominated by traditional methods using reinforced concrete, with brick and cement block exteriors. (references)

There has been some use of steel framing in residential high rise construction but this activity has been almost exclusively confined to interior partitions. (references)

Economic History

Uae

The current market trend is changing toward building new high rise buildings and large scale five star hotels and residential apartments. (references)

Chile

US and European architectural firm are thus finding a friendly environment with businesses to be developed in the area of new high rise office buildings, shopping malls, urban planning, golf courses, marinas, and other facilities related to the leisure industry. (references)

Trade

Hong Kong

What few there are relate to fire control (gas and electricity) in the city's high rise buildings. (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

Two workers in Abu Dhabi died after falling from separate high rise buildings that were under construction. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HIGH RISE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

high rise

33

apartment building high rise

3

las vegas high rise condo

22

high rise window

3

high rise building

17

gulf high rise condominium

3

houston high rise

11

mississippi luxury high rise

3

high rise apartment

11

biloxi luxury high rise

3

chicago high rise apartment

9

gulf coast high rise condominium

3

gulf high rise

8

gulf coast luxury high rise

3

cleaning high rise window

7

gulf coast high rise

3

high rise condo

7

mississippi high rise condominium

3

naples high rise

6

gulf luxury high rise

3

building flashlight high rise

6

biloxi high rise condominium

3

houston high rise apartment

6

mississippi high rise

3

bed high rise

6

biloxi high rise condo

2

dallas high rise

6

gulf coast high rise condo

2

high rise fire

6

gulf high rise condo

2

chicago high rise

5

mississippi high rise condo

2

high rise construction

5

booster cosco high rise seat

2

high rise demolition

4

high rise thong

2

bed frame high rise

3

condominium florida high rise southwest

2

apartment high rise virginia

3

condominium high rise

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HIGH RISE

Language Translations for "HIGH RISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumëkatësh (multi-stage, multistory). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعدد الطوابق, ‏إشراق (brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, clearness, lightness, lucidity, luminosity, splendor, splendour, sunshine). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с много етажи, многоетажна сграда (highriser). (various references)

   

Czech

  

výškový. (various references)

   

French

  

immeuble-tour, de plusieurs étages, composé de tour. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רב קומות (skyscraper). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

toronyház (high rise building). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

高層建築  (tall high rise building). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhay iseray

   

Russian 

  

высотный (altitude, altitudinal, high-altitude, high-rise), многоэтажный (high-rise, multistoried, multistory). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

visokouzlazni. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

elevado (elevated, grand, high, lofty, raised, stilted, towering), edificio en torre. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

höghus-, höghus (apartment building, block of flats), hög-. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

багатоповерховий (multistorey). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HIGH RISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-i-r-s"

-2 letters: heishi, higher, sigher.

-3 letters: girsh, heigh, heirs, highs, hires, rishi, shier, shire.

-4 letters: egis, ergs, ghis, gies, hehs, heir, hers, hies, high, hire, ires, iris, regs, reis, resh, rigs, rise, shri, sigh, sire.

-5 letters: erg, ers, ghi, gie, heh, her, hes, hie, his, ire, reg, rei, res, rig, seg, sei, ser, she, shh, sir.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-i-i-r-s"
 

+2 letters: cherishing, highfliers.

 

+3 letters: highbinders.

 

+4 letters: highlighters.

 

+5 letters: chirographies, hagiographies, hieroglyphics, horsewhipping, lithographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIGH RISE


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

48 49 47 48      52 49 53 45

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

    

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

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00100000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0047 0048      0052 0049 0053 0045

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

42434142252435339

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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