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Definition: High |
HighAdjective1. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself". 2. (literal meanings) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension; "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"; sometimes used in combination; "knee-high grass". 3. Standing above others in quality or position; "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community". 4. Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency. 5. Happy and excited and energetic. 6. Used of the smell of game beginning to taint. 7. Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana). Adverb1. At a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder". 2. In or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have gone up far too high". 3. In a rich manner; "he lives high". 4. Far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river". Noun1. A lofty level or position or degree: "summer temperatures reached an all-time high". 2. An air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high". 3. A state of sustained elation; "I'm on a permanent high these days". 4. A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on". 5. A high place; "they stood on high and observed the coutryside" or "he doesn't like heights". 6. A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool". 7. A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "high" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Features such as crests, culminations, anticlines or domes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The crest or culmination of a structure, such as a dome or an anticline. CF:low b. Name for the coal of a thick seam c. A geophysical anomaly with values greater than normal; e.g., a gravitymaximum or a geothermal maximum e.g., a gravitymaximum or a geothermal maximum. (references) |
Statistics | Sur un tableau sociologique, échelle à trois degrés. . . . . --in or to a high position, amount or degree. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In music, pitch refers to the perception of the frequency of a note. For example, the A above middle C is nowadays set at 440 hertz (often written as "A=440 Hz", and known as concert pitch), although this has not always been the case (see #Historical pitch standards). However, the phrase "pitch difference" is sometimes used to mean frequency ratio. It must be noted that pitch is something we perceive. A slight change in frequency need not mean a change in pitch but a change in pitch implies a change in frequency. Like other human stimuli, the perception of pitch also can be explained by the Weber-Fechner Law.
The relative pitches of individual notes in a scale may be determined by one of a number of tuning systems. In the west, the twelve-note chromatic scale is the most common method of organisation, with equal temperament now the most widely used method of tuning that scale. In it, the pitch ratio between any two successive notes of the scale is exactly the twelfth root of two. In well-tempered systems (as used in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, for example), different methods of musical tuning were used. Almost all of these systems have one interval in common, the octave, where the pitch of one note is double the frequency of another. For example, if the A above middle C is 440 Hz, the A an octave above that will be 880 Hz.
Like other senses, the relative perception of pitch can be fooled, resulting in "audio illusions". There are several of these, such as the tritone paradox, but most notably the Shepard scale, where a continuous or discrete sequence of specially formed tones can be made to sound like this sequence continues ascending forever, when this in fact is a clever audio illusion.
Historical pitch standards
As well as various systems of musical tuning being used to determine the relative frequency of notes in a scale, various pitch standards have been used historically to fix the absolute position of the scale. In 1955, the International Organization for Standardization fixed the frequency of the A above middle C at 440 Hz, but in the past, various frequencies have been used.
Until the 19th century, there was no concerted effort to standardize musical pitch and the levels across Europe varied widely. Even within one church, the pitch used could vary over time because of the way organss were tuned. Generally, the end of an organ pipe would be hammered inwards to a cone, or flared outwards to raise or lower the pitch. When the pipe ends became frayed by this constant process, they were all trimmed down, thus raising the overall pitch of the organ.
Some idea of the variance in pitches can be gained by examining old tuning forks, organ pipes and other sources. For example, an English pitchpipe from 1720 plays the A above middle C at 380 Hz, while the organss played by Johann Sebastian Bach in Hamburg, Leipzig and Weimar were pitched at A=480 Hz, a difference of around four semitones. In other words, the A produced by the 1720 pitchpipe would have been at the same frequency as the F on one of Bach's organs.
Pitch levels did not just vary from place to place, or over time - pitch levels could vary even within the same city. The pitch used for an English cathedral organ in the 17th century for example, could be as much as five semitones lower than that used for a domestic keyboard instrument in the same city.
The need to standardize pitch levels, at least within one city or country, rose as performance of music which combined the organ with instrumental ensembles became more popular. One way in which pitch could be controlled was with the use of tuning forks, although even here there was variation - a tuning fork associated with Handel, dating from 1740, is pitched at A=422.5 Hz, while a later one from 1780 is pitched at A=409 Hz, almost a semitone lower. Nonetheless, there was a tendency towards the end of the 18th century for the frequency of the A above middle C to be in the range of 400 to 450 Hz.
Throughout the first half of the 19th century, there was a tendency for the pitch used by orchestras to rise. This was probably largely due to orchestras competing with each other, each attempting to fill increasingly large concert halls with a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. They were helped in this endeavour by the improved durability of the violins' E-strings - in the 16th century, Michael Praetorius had rejected various high pitch standards as leading to snapped strings, but the new strings could take the higher tension without breaking.
The rise in pitch at this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. A 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A=423.2 Hz, while one of eleven years later from the same opera house gives A=435 Hz. At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as 451 Hz.
The most vocal opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due to their protestations, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal. It became quite a popular pitch standard outside of France as well.
There were still variations, however. The diapason normal resulted in middle C being tuned at approximately 258.65 Hz. An alternative pitch standard known as philosophical or scientific pitch, which fixed middle C at exactly 256 Hz (that is, 28 Hz), and resulted in the A above it being tuned to approximately 430.54 Hz, gained some popularity due to its mathematical convenience (the frequencies of all the Cs being a power of two). This never received the same official recognition as A=435, however, and was not as widely used.
In 1939, an international conference recommended that the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz. This standard was taken up by the International Organization for Standardization in 1955 (and was reaffirmed by them in 1975) as ISO 16. The difference between this and the diapason normal is due to confusion over which temperature the French standard should be measured at. The initial standard was A=439 Hz, but this was superseded by A=440 Hz after complaints that 439 Hz was difficult to reproduce in a laboratory owing to 439 being a prime number.
Despite such confusion, A=440 Hz is now used virtually world wide, at least in theory. In practice, as orchestras still tune to a note given out by the oboe, rather than to an electronic tuning device (which would be more reliable), and as the oboist himself may not have used such a device to tune in the first place, there is still some variance in the exact pitch used. Solo instruments such as the piano (which an orchestra may tune to if they are playing together) are also not universally tuned to A=440 Hz. Overall, it is thought that the general trend since the middle of the 20th century has been for standard pitch to rise, though it has certainly been rising far more slowly than it has in the past..
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pitch (music)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| HI | English | High impact | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HighSynonyms: eminent (adj), gamey (adj), gamy (adj), high-pitched (adj), in high spirits (adj), mellow (adj), high up (adv), luxuriously (adv), richly (adv), heights (n), high gear (n), high pressure (n), high school (n), highschool (n), senior high (n), senior high school (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: low (n), low spirits (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dearness | Adjective: dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye, dear bought. |
Disinterestedness | Handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high-minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime. |
Greatness | Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith. |
Pride | Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. |
Repute | Eminent, prominent; high; in the zenith; at the head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.; superior; supereminent, preeminent. |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | We'll all get high schools named after us. (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) It's unusually high for someone your size (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) They can send up an ack-ack umbrella high enough to make any attack ineffective (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Let my heart be hardedned, and never mind how high the cost may grow, this will still be so: I will never let your people go. (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday) | |
Lyrics | I feel so high, when I'm touching your sky baby (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) They get high off of it (Get High On Life; performing artist: Exit-13) Well I'm on a champagne high (Champagne High; performing artist: Sister Hazel) 'Cause she's so high (She's So High; performing artist: Tal Bachman) At how pretty and high and shy she was (Pretty and High; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Clever | The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. (references; author: Japanese Proverb) Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) Man who stand on toilet is high on pot. (references; author: unknown) Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. (references; author: unknown) 1968: The perfect high. 1998: The perfect high-yield mutual fund. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | High School Reunion (2003) Heroes of the High Frontier (1999) Heart of the High Country (2002) High Rollers (1974) John Muir's High Sierra (1974) | |
Song Titles | Rocky Mountain High (performing artist: John Denver) High Country (performing artist: Juluka) Ain't No Mountain High Enough (performing artist: Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell) Pretty And High (performing artist: The Roches) Champagne High (performing artist: Sister Hazel) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A display of high fat foods such as cheeses, chocolates, lunch meat, french fries, pastries, doughnuts, etc. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Pictured are instruments used in endoscopy. They are highlighted in an otherwise dark picture and lying on a textured cloth. Shown are flexible fibers, a small brush and a third instrument in some photos. The fibers transmit high intensity light through the endoscope shown. The brushes are used to take biopsies. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Increasing prevalence of high level penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae over time. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |  | Legionnaire's disease is an acute and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. Headache, high fever, cough, and flu-like symptoms accompany the condition. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Ethane" by Daniel Bentham and Staffan Björkenstam. Use the Scrollbar to vary A and C. High resolution, may take a few seconds to generate. |  | "Asterias" by Rainer Wonisch. Very high resolution; might take a few seconds to generate. |
 | High Speed Civil Transport. Credit: NASA. |  | Most of the eastern U.S. was cloud free October 11. Such widespread cloudlessness in this part of the world is rare. These clear skies are associated with a region of high pressure over the eastern central U.S. Credit: NASA. |
 | X-31 at High Agle of Attack. Credit: NASA. |  | Ion Engine Being Installed in High Vacuum Tank. Credit: NASA. |
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| "High Stress Energy" by César Rodríguez Commentary: "Sky with wire pollution." | "HIGH VOLTAGE" by Victor Silkin Commentary: "DANGER, DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE !!!! just like the song hehehe :)." |
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 | High Classical era work for piano similar to that of works by Bach. | | Double-time bass and accompanying melody with slow chimes up high. |
| Calm and slow high clarinet melody over a string drone. | | High strings, active digital melody, and pizzicato bass line. |
| High keyboard glissando over a groove backbeat synthesized rhythm section. | | Minor key excerpt with repetitive piano, high bells, and horn. |
| High energy piece typical of a television show or commercial from the 1980's. | | A hymn played on piano featuring different registers of the piano from high to low. |
| Latin jazz style piece featuring a typical high screaming trumpet. | | A quick piano excerpt stylized in the High Classical era style. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. |
Benjamin Franklin | Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. |
Fernando de Rojas | When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy. |
Heinrich Heine | Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. |
Oliver Cromwell | No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes. |
| None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going. | |
Ovid | Envy aims very high. |
Publilius Syrus | No one reaches a high position without daring. |
W. Blake | No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The High Commissioner shall reside at Danzig. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I was a high minister at the time of the Versailles Treaty and a close friend of Mr. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Such considerations apply with added force to children in grade and high schools. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1955) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I am sure it was a source of high entertainment to you, to feel that you were taking us all in. |
Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | When, at high Noon, the blazing sky Scorched in his head each haggard eye, Then keenest rose his weary cry. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | There was nothing of high mark in this |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The birds, when they are flying on high beside the angels, must hear such words |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They were voyaging across the deserts of the sky, a host of nomads on the march, voyaging high over Ireland, westward bound |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Sound] Thus high, by thy advice And thy assistance, is King Richard seated |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In California they got high wages |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid sugar and foods high in sugar. (references) | |
Emphasize foods high in dietary fiber. (references) | ||
Many nondairy foods are high in calcium. (references) | ||
Business | Business tax rates also remain high. (references) | |
Non-wage labor costs are also quite high. (references) | ||
Marine electronics are also in high demand. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | Child mortality from preventable diseases is high. (references) |
Pakistan | Children suffer a high rate of preventable childhood diseases. (references) | |
Malawi | Infant mortality is high, and child malnutrition is a serious problem. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Malawi | At year's end, the case was pending in the High Court. (references) |
Romania | Media accuracy is not high but has been improving gradually. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | All media organizations may appeal the censor's decision to the High Court of Justice. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | Tensions remain high. (references) |
Namibia | Climate: Semidesert and high plateau. (references) | |
Argentina | Argentina's computer literacy is high. (references) | |
Human Rights | Trinidad and Tobago | All civil matters are heard by the High Court. (references) |
Zimbabwe | All litigants are represented in the High Court. (references) | |
Indonesia | An earlier appeal to the Papua High Court was rejected. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | High rates of cholera, hepatitis B, malaria, and other diseases plague their communities. (references) |
Ecuador | Land is scarce in the more heavily populated highland areas, where high infant mortality, malnutrition, and epidemic disease are common. (references) | |
Taiwan | Land rights remain a crucial issue for Aborigines, along with social discrimination, educational underachievement, low economic status, and high rates of alcoholism. (references) | |
Minorities | Austria | Sensitivity to Scientology in the country remained high. (references) |
Kuwait | The Shi'a are underrepresented in high government positions. (references) | |
Colombia | Unemployment among Afro-Colombians ran as high as 76 percent in some communities. (references) | |
Political Economy | Greece | Residents enjoy a high standard of living. (references) |
CZECH REPUBLIC | Industrial accident rates are not unusually high. (references) | |
ECUADOR | Ecuador does not have a high level of labor unrest. (references) | |
Political Rights | Botswana | Of the 13 High Court justices, 1 is a woman. (references) |
Uganda | Byanyima petitioned the Mbarara High Court to stay the recount. (references) | |
Guatemala | Voter participation in the 1999 elections was at a 13-year high. (references) | |
Trade | Romania | The cost of borrowing locally is still high. (references) |
Morocco | Moroccan banks generally require high collateral. (references) | |
Kenya | Any other form of payment carries a high level of risk. (references) | |
Travel | Hong Kong | Rents for housing are very high. (references) |
Argentina | Buenos Aires is a high crime area. (references) | |
Denmark | Denmark has a high standard of living. (references) | |
Women | China | A high female suicide rate is a serious problem. (references) |
Fiji | Only one case in the last 5 years has been sent to the High Court. (references) | |
Congo | Only rarely do they occupy positions of authority or high responsibility. (references) | |
Worker Rights | France | Standards are high and effectively enforced. (references) |
China | Tibetan curriculum high schools exist in a few areas. (references) | |
China | NGO's maintain that this figure is inaccurately high. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Christopher Shays | They're logical concerns, but the stakes are high. This is like after World War II when we had a new threat, we had to develop a new strategy and we had to reorganize. |
Ed McMahon | I'm doing everything. I'm going to do a show. I invited you to be on my show, and you aced me out. You have got some high dignitary, I don't know who it is. But you turned me down. |
John Hartmann | Never, ever. I mean, Phil was a middle child. They're usually more humble and more subdued. And his comedic talents didn't really emerge until high school. |
Marlo Thomas | Look at that face, just like when you were in high school. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a cheerleader in trouble. |
Regis Philbin | I was average. I was very average. Average in high school, average in college. I wanted to do this. I wanted to be in this business, didn't know exactly what. |
Rudy Giuliani | That's correct. There are times that you'll set expectations too high, and then even though you've been successful, it'll look like you actually haven't achieved what you want to. |
Rush Limbaugh | Yet if civil liberties are as precious to liberals as they claim, FDR's high status is certainly unwarranted. |
Samantha Geimer | Right. So, I mean, that's his form of punishment in itself. I think everyone finding out about it when you're a celebrity that's a high price to pay in itself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Some contraventions of right have already taken place, both within our jurisdictional limits and on the high seas. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The Army is in a high state of discipline. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | What we seek ultimately is a high level of food production and consumption that will provide good nutrition for everyone. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | One third of our most promising high school graduates are financially unable to continue the development of their talents. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a half years. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Prices are too high, and sales are too slow. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Unemployment is far too high. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now each of us must hold high the torch of citizenship in our own lives. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Children respond to an atmosphere of high standards. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "High" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.49% of the time. "High" is used about 30,340 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.49% | 28,668 | 296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 920 | 7,819 |
| Adverb (general) | 2.16% | 656 | 9,979 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.31% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30,340 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "high" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| High | Last name | 5,000 | 2,286 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "high". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abiram | N/A | Biblical | High father |
| Abraham | N/A | Biblical | High father |
| Abram | N/A | Biblical | High father |
| Adar | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Adoniram | N/A | Biblical | My Lord is most high |
| Alian | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Arumah | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Bamah | N/A | Biblical | An eminence or high place |
| Gabbatha | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Gath-rimmon | N/A | Biblical | The high wine-press |
| Gibbethon | N/A | Biblical | A high house |
| Harum | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Iram | N/A | Biblical | A high heap |
| Jeroham | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Jogbehah | N/A | Biblical | High |
| Ramoth | N/A | Biblical | High places |
| Abraham | N/A | English | High father |
| Abraham | N/A | Jewish | High father |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Austria | Roehrig High Tech Plastics AG | Canada | High Liner Foods Inc |
| France | Groupe High Co | Hong Kong | High Fashion International Limited |
| India | High Energy Batteries Ltd. | United Kingdom | Aberdeen High Income Trust PLC |
| USA | High Country Bancorp, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "high": a high flight ♦ a thousand feet high ♦ absolute high ♦ ad in high quarters ♦ ad with a high hand ♦ Agency for European Folk High School Work ♦ aim high ♦ area of high pressure ♦ aspire to high positions ♦ aswan High Dam ♦ at a high noon ♦ at high noon ♦ at the high tide ♦ be held in high esteem ♦ be held in high repute ♦ be high ♦ be high and mighty ♦ be in high spirits ♦ be on a high ♦ be on the high horse ♦ be on the high ropes ♦ bid high ♦ blow high blow low ♦ breast high ♦ carry one's head high ♦ carry with a high hand ♦ cloud high ♦ come hell or high water ♦ concurrent high inference machine ♦ continental high ♦ diameter breast high ♦ do the high jump ♦ dread high bit disease ♦ duplex High Speed Data ♦ extra high tension ♦ extra high voltage ♦ extremely high frequency ♦ fetch a high figure ♦ fligh high ♦ fly high ♦ flying high ♦ for high stakes ♦ from on high ♦ get high ♦ get high wages ♦ get on one's high horse ♦ getting high ♦ girls' high school ♦ graduation from high school ♦ have a high colour ♦ have a high opinion of ♦ have a high time to ♦ have high hopes of ♦ have too high an opinion of oneself ♦ he is flying high ♦ he kicked the ball high ♦ high accuracy ♦ high active waste ♦ High admiral ♦ high altar ♦ high altitude ♦ high altitude burst ♦ high altitude helicopter ♦ high and dry ♦ high and low ♦ high and mighty ♦ high angle ♦ high angle fire ♦ high angle of attack ♦ high Anglican Church ♦ high Anglicanism ♦ High art ♦ high authority ♦ high axis ♦ High bailiff ♦ high ball ♦ high bar ♦ high beam ♦ high bid ♦ high bit ♦ High blood cholesterol ♦ high blood pressure ♦ high bomb ♦ high boot ♦ high boots ♦ high born ♦ high brass ♦ high breeding ♦ High Bridge ♦ high chair ♦ High Cholesterol ♦ high church ♦ high cloud ♦ high clouds ♦ high colonic ♦ high color ♦ high coloring ♦ high colour ♦ high comedy ♦ high command ♦ high commission. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "high": high-ability, high-absorbency, high-accuracy, high-achievement, high-achiever, high-achievers, high-achieving, high-acidity, high-active, high-adrenalin, high-aesthetic, high-affinity, high-aimed, High-al, high-alcohol, high-alpha, high-altitude, high-alumina, high-amperage, high-amplitude, high-and-dry, high-and-mighty, high-angle, high-angle fire, high-angle gun, high-angled, high-arched, high-arching, high-arctic, high-area storm, high-aspect-ratio, high-assed, high-availability, high-back, high-backed, high-bailiff, high-ball, high-band, High-bandwidth, high-banked, high-baroque, high-bay, high-beamed, high-binder, high-blood, High-blown, high-bodiced, high-boiled, high-boned, high-booted, high-born, high-bosomed, high-bourgeois, high-breasted, high-bred, high-bridged, high-brow, high-brows, high-budget, High-built, high-bulk, high-bummed, high-bush blueberry, high-buttocked, high-buttoned, high-buttoning, high-calcium, high-calibre, high-calorie, high-candle, high-capability, high-capacity, high-caped, high-capital, high-carat, high-carbohydrate, high-carbon, high-caste, high-ceiling, high-ceilinged, high-chair, high-char, high-cheekboned, high-cheek-boned, high-cheeked, high-chinned, high-cholesterol, High-church, High-churchism, High-churchman, High-churchman-ship, high-circulation, high-class, high-climbing, high-collar, high-collared, High-colored, high-colour, high-coloured, high-combustion, High-commission, high-competition, high-compression, high-concept, high-conductivity, high-consumption, high-containment, high-context, high-contrast, high-convenience, high-corrosion, High-Cost, high-cost, high-country, high-coupon, high-crested, high-crime, high-crowned, high-cruising, high-cultural, high-culture, high-currency, high-current, high-cut, high-damping, high-decibel, high-definition, high-definition television, high-degree, high-demand, high-denomination, high-density, high-density lipoprotein, High-density lipoproteins, high-density-storage, high-dependency, high-die-hi, high-dirt, high-domed, high-dose, high-drag, high-drama, high-dynamic, high-earner, high-earning, high-edged, high-efficiency, high-electron-mobility, High-embowed, high-employment, High-End, high-end product, High-Energy, high-energy, high-energy physics, High-Energy Shock Waves, high-energy-using, high-enough, high-expansion, high-explosive, high-explosive bomb, high-explosives, high-factor, high-falluting, high-falooting, high-falutin, high-falutin', high-faluting, high-fantastical, high-farmers, high-fashion, high-fat, High-fed, high-fibre, high-fidelity, high-field, high-finance, high-finesse, High-finished, high-five, high-fives, high-flier, high-fliers, high-floor, high-flow, high-flown, high-flown radical, High-flushed, high-flyer, high-flyers, high-flying, High-force, high-frequency, High-Frequency Jet Ventilation, high-frequency receiver, high-frequency transmitter, High-Frequency Ventilation, high-frequent, high-friction, high-functionality, high-gabled, high-gain, high-gear, high-gloss, High-go, high-grade, High-Grade, high-grade lymphomas, high-grade petrol, high-grease, high-ground, high-growing, high-grown, high-growth, high-guard, high-hab, high-handed, high-handedly, high-handedness, high-handicap, high-handicapper, high-handicappers, high-hat, high-hat cymbal, high-head, High-hearted, High-heartedness, high-hedged, high-heel, high-heeled, high-heeled sandal, high-heels, high-heid, High-hoe, high-holder, high-hole, high-hoo, high-horse, high-hung, high-impact, high-impedance, high-inclination, high-income, high-income category, high-income earner, high-indeed, high-inference, high-inflation, high-influence, high-input, high-insurance, high-intensity, high-interest, high-involvement, high-jacks, high-jinks, high-jump, high-jumped, high-jumpers, high-k, High-kelvinside, high-key, high-keyed, high-kicked, high-kicking, high-kicks, high-kilted, High-king, high-kitsch, high-kneed, high-laced, high-lacing, high-latitude, high-layers, high-lead, high-level, High-level Data Link Control, high-level formatting, high-level language, high-level professional, high-level radioactive waste, high-level trade delegation, high-life, high-life-loving, high-lift, high-light, high-lighted, high-lighting, high-lights, high-limit, high-lived, high-liver, high-living, high-low, high-low-jack, high-lying, high-magnesian(quick)lime, high-magnification, high-magnitude, high-margin, high-mass, high-meat, High-mettled, high-mg, high-mid, high-mileage, high-minded, high-mindedly, high-mindedness, high-mobility, high-modernist, high-modulus, High-molecular, high-molecular-weight, high-momentum, high-muck-a-muck, high-multiplier, high-neck, high-necked, high-nitrate, high-nitrogen, high-noon, high-nosed, high-nuclear, high-octane, high-octane high-powered high-power high-voltage, high-offender, high-ohmic, high-order, high-output, high-oxygen, high-paid, High-palmed, high-pass, high-pass filter, high-peaked, high-peak-season, high-perch, high-performace, high-performance, high-performant, high-performing, high-permeability, high-pile, high-pitch, high-pitched, high-pitched roof, high-pitchedly, high-placed, high-point, high-points, high-polish, high-polished, high-polluting, high-pollution, high-pooped, high-potency, high-potential, high-power, high-powered, high-powered rifle, high-precision, high-pressure, high-pressure cleaning, High-pressure engine, High-pressure steam, high-pressure unit, high-pressured, high-pressuring, high-prestige, high-price, high-priced, high-priest, high-priestess, High-priesthood, high-priestly, High-priestship, high-principle, high-principled, high-priority, high-probability, high-production, high-productivity, high-profile, high-profit, High-proof, high-prostitution, high-protection, high-protein, high-protein diet, high-prowed, high-publicity, high-purity, high-quality, high-quality-low-cost, high-rack, high-racked, high-radiance, high-rafted, high-railed, high-rainfall, High-raised, high-ranking, high-ranking executive, high-ranking government official, high-ranking official, high-ranking professional, high-rate, high-rated, high-rating, high-ratio, High-reaching, high-readiness, high-recovery, high-recurrent, High-red, high-reliability, high-relief, high-rent, high-rented, high-res, high-research-intensity, high-resilience, high-resistance, high-resistivity, high-resolution, high-resolution mass spectrometer, high-return, high-rev, high-revving, high-reward, high-riding, high-rise, high-rise apartment building, high-rise area, high-rise building, high-rise development, high-risers, high-rises, high-rising, high-risk, high-road, high-rococo, high-rolling, high-roof, high-roofed, high-safety, high-salaried, high-salt, high-scaler, high-school, high-science, high-score, high-scoring, high-scudding, high-seas, high-season, High-seasoned, high-security, high-sensitivity, high-set, high-shouldered, high-side, high-sided, High-sighted, high-signal, high-skill, high-skilled, high-smelling, high-soaring, high-society, high-solids, High-souled, high-sounding, high-spanish, High-spec, high-specification, high-speed, high-speed exit taxiway, high-speed steel, high-speed train, high-speed turn-off taxiway, high-spender, high-spending, high-spirited, high-spiritedness, high-spirits, high-spot, high-spots, high-stage, high-stakes, high-standard, high-standing, high-status, high-stemmed, high-stepped, High-stepper, high-stepping, High-stomached, high-strain, high-street, high-strength, high-strength brass, high-stress, high-striking, high-strung, high-subsonic, high-suction, high-sudsing, high-sugar, high-sulphur, high-summer, High-swelling, high-swept, high-swung, high-tack, high-tail, high-tailed, high-taper, high-tar, high-tax, high-taxation, high-taxing, high-tea, high-tec, high-tech, high-tech industry, high-tech products, high-tech program, high-tech programme, high-tech revolution, high-tech-based, high-technical, high-technology, high-technology', high-technology-driven, high-temperature, high-temperature hot water, high-tempo, high-tensile, high-tension, high-theoretician, high-theory, high-thinking, high-throughout, high-throughput, high-ticket, high-tide, high-tin, high-tome, high-tone, high-toned, high-tonnage, high-top, high-topped, high-tops, high-torque, high-tory, high-trust, high-turnover, high-twist, high-unemployment, high-up, high-ups, high-use, high-vacuum, high-valency, high-value, high-valued, high-vegetable, high-velocity, high-viscosity, high-visibility, high-vitamin diet, high-voiced, high-volatile, high-voltage, high-volume, high-wage, high-waged, high-waisted, high-walled, high-warp loom, high-wasted, high-water, high-water mark, High-water shrub, High-way, high-wealth, high-wheeled, high-wind, high-wing, high-winged, high-wire, high-wire performer, High-wrought, high-xxxx, high-yield, high-yield-bond, high-yielding, High-z, high-zone tolerance. | |
Ending with "high": ankle-high, chest-high, extra-high, fifteen-foot-high, five-foot-high, foot-high, head-high, inch-high, medium-high, metre-high, mile-high, neck-high, nose-high, over-high, six-foot-high, thigh-high, three-foot-high, too-high, two-foot-high, ultra-high, waist-high. | |
Containing "high": extremely-high-velocity, hard-hitting high-pressure, kinda-high-life, Mile-High City, non-high-speed, pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap, sky-high prices, super-high-end, ultra-high-frequency, ultra-high-speed, ultra-high-vacuum, very-high-density, very-high-impedance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
high school | 7,477 | high point nc | 763 |
high heel | 5,174 | high speed camera | 743 |
high blood pressure | 3,772 | thigh high boot | 702 |
high times | 3,218 | high school football | 629 |
high speed internet | 1,932 | high school baseball | 586 |
high school reunion | 1,871 | high school girl | 535 |
high cholesterol | 1,342 | high chair | 493 |
high school alumnus | 1,269 | sexy high heel | 491 |
high heel shoes | 1,217 | high fiber food | 488 |
high school diploma | 1,182 | high blood pressure symptom | 481 |
high | 1,066 | high performance part | 405 |
high tide | 1,028 | comcast high speed internet | 401 |
high protein food | 1,021 | the mile high club | 400 |
high school graduation gift | 1,007 | clone high | 390 |
online high school | 966 | high speed internet access | 385 |
high school classmate | 946 | high risk loan | 382 |
high school graduation | 930 | high fiber diet | 374 |
high protein diet | 924 | sexy high heel shoes | 371 |
high school student credit card | 796 | fast times at ridgemont high | 367 |
city high | 768 | high times magazine | 361 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "high"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zhvilluar (developed, marked, strong), e madhe, epror (superior), i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), i lartë (altisonant, big, considerable, elevated, eminent, exalted, first, high pitched, higher, lofty, overhead, paramount, pre eminent, rank, soaring, sonorous, stalwart, towering), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i ngritur (airborne, astir, elevated, erect, established, uprise), i pirë (drunk, drunken, groggy, loaded, muzzy), e fortë (hard), i shtrenjtë (costly, expensive, pricey, pricy), nga lartësia, kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, haughty, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, supercilious, toplofty), kulmor (climacteric, topnotch), lart (above, aloft, overhead, up, upstairs, upward, upwards), lartë (lofty, tall), në masë të madhe, në qejf (merry, peart), në shkallë të lartë, i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound). (various references) | |
Arabic | رفيع (loud, thin), فيضان (alluvion, deluge, flood, flow, flux, high tide, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream), فارع الطولة, مرتفع (elevated, plateau, towering), لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), قمة (acme, apex, climax, cop, crest, crown, head, height, heyday, meridian, peak, pinnacle, prime, summit, tip, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), حاسم (absolute, categorical, conclusive, critical, crucial, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, fateful, final, peremptory, pivotal, unqualified), حرج (awkwardness, climacteric, critical, difficulty, discomfiture, fix, forest, stringent, ticklish), سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, unstressed, upbeat), سام رفيع (elevated, exalted, gallant, grand, lofty), عاليا (aloft, loudly, on top of, up), إرتفاع (advance, altitude, augment, elevation, heaviness, heaving, height, highness, inflation, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, upheaval), ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tight, tipsy, well oiled), بكل طاقته, بترف (luxuriously, richly). (various references) | |
Basque | garai. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възвишен (elate, grand, great, high minded, high-toned, lofty, magnanimous, noble, rarefied, soaring, spheric, sublime, supernal), богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), нависоко (aloft), висок (altisonant, altitude, elevated, eminent, formal, heavy, high pitched, lank, large, lofty, long, loud, soaring, strapping), високо (aloft, aloud, highly, loftily, loud, loudly, out, sharp), издигнат (elevated, eminent, exalted, mounted, superior), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), върховен (crowning, imperial, meridian, paramount, sovereign, supreme), главен (arterial, capital, chief, decuman, general, grand, head, leading, magistral, main, major, master, pivotal, premier, primary, prime, principal, stellar), краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, uttermost, veriest, wild-eyed), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), силно (audibly, fast, hard, heavily, highly, loud, loudly, mightily, slap, slap bang, sorely, strongly, thick, vigorously), висш (crowning, empyreal, imperial, paramount, sovereign). (various references) | |
Catalan | alt (lofty, loud, tall). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高 (tall). (various references) | |
Czech | zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, decayed, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, stale, wicked), vznešený (August, elevated, ennobling, highbred, imperial, lofty, noble, stately, sublime), vysoko (aloft), vysoký (big, exalted, floaty, high pitched, large, lofty, tall), velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, great, gross, hearty, heavy, intense, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), střední škola (high school, second school, secondary school), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), rekord (record), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), opilý (crapulous, drunk, drunken, fuddled, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, soused, tipsy), neskromný (immodest), nalitý, maximum (Max, maximum, utmost). (various references) | |
Danish | høj (lofty, loud, tall). (various references) | |
Dutch | hoog (lofty, tall), verheven (elevated, grand, grandiose, lofty, magnificent, majestic, superb, tall), high (blocked, coating, turned on). (various references) | |
Esperanto | drogekscitita, alta (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Faeroese | høgur (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Farsi | عالی (Beautiful, Brave, Capital, Excellent, Exquisite, Famous, Fine, Gallant, Immense, Knockout, Lofty, Much, Palmary, Remarkable, Ripping, Spiffy, Splendid, Super, Superb, Superlative, Supreme, Swank, Unrivaled), باصدای فراز, بوگرفته (Rancid), بلند (Aloud, Eminent, Grandiose, Lofty, Skyscraper, Sonorous, Tall, Upland, Vociferous, Willowy), بلندپایه (Lofty, Sublime), رشید (Adolescent), اندکی فاسد, جای مرتفع (Height), باصدای زیر, خشمگینانه , متکبرانه , زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), تندزیاد, وافر (Abundant, Liberal, Luxuriant, Opulent, Profuse, Superabundant, Umpteen, Umpteenth), گران (Costly, Exclusive, Expensive, Heavy, Onerous, Prohibitive, Sumptuous), گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, Immense, Rodomontade, Steep, Stupendous, Tall, Unconscionable, Vainglory), مرتفع , متعال (Eminent, Excelsior, Sublimate), متکبر (Arrogant, Haughty, Imperious, Perky, Proud), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden). (various references) | |
Finnish | korkea (elevated, exalted, lofty, tall). (various references) | |
French | haut, élevé. (various references) | |
Frisian | floed (flood, high tide). (various references) | |
German | hoch (advanced, big, cheer, dear, deeply, distinguished, elevated, exalted, extensive, great, heavily, heavy, high pitched, high ranking, highly, important, large, loftily, lofty, long, noble, quality, severe, short, superior, tall, to the power of, trebly, up). (various references) | |
Greek | έξοχοσ (Dandy, eminent, excellent, fine, peachy, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, super, swell, tops, worthy), μέγασ (big, broad, grand, great, large), υψηλόσ (lofty, slab-sided, sublime, tall, towering), φτιαγμένος (blocked, coating, turned on), ψηλός (lofty, tall), ψηλά (aloft, highly). (various references) | |
Guarani | asajepytépe (at high noon). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | lartë (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גבוה (exalted, lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Hungarian | magas (alto, eminent, exalted, high voice, lofty, piping, strapping, tall, taunt, taut, third programme, to ride the high horse), magasan (highly, loftily), felül (above, over, overhead, to get on, to mount, uppermost, upwards), emelt (raised, stilted). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hár (hair, lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tekanan udara yang tinggi, puncak (apex, capstone, crest, culmination, cusp, mount, peak, pitch, top, zenith), ketinggian (altitude). (various references) | |
Irish | ard (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Italian | alto (deep, height, lofty, loud, noble, overhead, tall, up, wide), elevato (elevated, highly, lofty, sharp, shrill, sublime, tall). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 高尚 (advanced, noble, refined), 高い (expensive, tall). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうぎょうたる, たかい (death, expensive, tall, the next world), たかだかと (loud), たく (desk, home, house, husband, table, to boil, to build a fire, to burn, to cook, to kindle), ハイ , こうしょう (a bite, advanced, announcing publicly, arsenal, artisan, authentication, conferring of an award, connection, discussions, fancy, fashion, investigation, licensed prostitution, loud laughter, loud or high-pitched voice, mechanic, negotiations, noble, notarization, occupational injury, oral tradition, ore deposit, passing on by word of mouth, public name, recitation, refined, registered prostitute, school badge, shining, spring of yellow buds, taste, Welfare Minister). (various references) | |
Korean | 높은. (various references) | |
Malay | boros (extravagant, high-flown). (various references) | |
Manx | dy ard, ardey, ard (big, compass point, direction, district, fell, height, high place, incline, loud, pole, region, tall, towering). (various references) | |
Norwegian | høy (hay, lofty, loud, tall). (various references) | |
Occitan | naut, aut. (various references) | |
Papiamen | haltu (lofty, tall), halto (lofty, tall), altu (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ighhay.(various references) | |
Polish | wysoki (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Portuguese | elevado (commanding, elate, elevated, exalted, great, high-level, high-minded, hightoned, high-up, lofty, overhead, raised, soaring, soulful, sublimate, sublime, supernal, tall), alto (aloud, altisonant, bump, elevated, great, height, high-flown, hightoned, lofty, loud, loudly, rangy, screaming, screamy, stand-up, stop, tall, top). (various references) | |
Romanian | bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), în vremurile trecute, important (big, consequential, considerable, goodly, grave, great, high-class, important, interesting, momentous, outstanding, prime, relevant, serious, significant, significative, substantial, weighty), furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), foarte înaintat, din belşug (amply, a-plenty, galore, greatly, in plenty, liberally, plenteously, plentifully, richly), de sãrbãtoare (convivial, holiday), la înãlţime de, care urcã, la înãlţime mare, ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme), îndepãrtat (bye, distant, long run, outlying, remote, removed), înaltã societate (the four hundred, the rank and fashion, the upper ten thousand), înalt (deep, eminent, grand, sublime, tall, towering, upper), înaintat (advanced, forward), cer (air, atmosphere, clime, firmament, heaven, paradise, skies, sky), principal (broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, leading, main, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), urcat (exaggerated), superior (above, best, better, chief, choice, excelsior, exclusive, first class, Guardian, higher, lofty, overweening, predominant, supercilious, superior, tiptop, top, upper), strident (clangorous, grating, harsh, loud, shrill, strident, stridently), scump (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, lovely, miserly, own, precious, pricey, valuable), intens (arduous, cut throat, deep, exquisite, heavy, intense, intensely, intensive, keen, powerful, saturated, severe, strenuous, strong, violent), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), zi de sãrbãtoare (banner day, high day, red letter day), plin (complete, contents, entire, full, integral, orotund, paved, replete, repletion, round, solid), montant (beam, mullion, post, upright), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), mânios (angry, black-browed, crazy, furious, furiously, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, waxy, wrathful, wroth), mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, erect, handsome, haughty, high minded, high pitched, high-flown, loftily, lofty, proud, splendid, stately, wonderful), luxos (dainty, largely, luxurious, luxuriously, magnificent, pompous, purple, rich), ridicat (advanced, erect, harsh, long, raised, raising, severe, standing, stiff, upright). (various references) | |
Russian | высокий (big, high pitched, high-flown, high-pitched, lengthy, lofty, sky high, soaring, tall). (various references) | |
Scottish | àrd (eminence, eminent, great, lofty, loud; n. a height, tall). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | visok (strapping, tall). (various references) | |
Spanish | alto (aloud, alto, contralto, contralto voice, halt, lofty, long, loud, standstill, stop, tall, upper, upward), pasado (background, bad, beyond, bygone, departed, diluted, erstwhile, ex, foretime, former, gone, gone by, lapsed, last, off, old fashioned, outmoded, overblown, overpast, overripe, passed, past, preterit, preterite, rotten, sleepy, stale, tacky, tainted, turned, worn). (various references) | |
Sranan | ey (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Swedish | hög (clamp, elevated, exalted, heap, high pitched, hillock, huddle, lofty, loud, mound, pile, tall). (various references) | |
Tagalog | mataás (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งร่าเริง (high-spirited), ด้วยความเร็วสูง (high-speed), คนทะเยอทะยาน (go-getter, high-flyer, soarer), ซึ่งมีคุณธรรมสูง (high-minded, nobleminded), ซึ่งมีความกดดันสูง (high-pressure), ซึ่งหงุดหงิดง่าย (high-strung), เกมไฮโล (high-low), ยโสโอหัง (high-handed), อธิบดีศาลสูงสุด (Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor), ที่มีส้นสูง (high-heeled), ที่อยู่ชั้นสูง (high-ranking), ชั้นสูง (high-class, noble), โดนละทิ้ง (high and dry), ซึ่งดีเลิศ (high-grade). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, Clarion, elevated, exalted, highrise, hyper-, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior, tall). (various references) | |
Turkmen | iюbil (high-heeled shoes), epeя (bombastic, high flown, respectable), beяikli-pesli (high and low, one and all). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сильно (aloud, amain, bitterly, deep, deeply, hard, loud, nervously, powerfully, severely, sound, strongly, sturdily, violently, widely), верховний (paramount, sovereign, supreme), високо (highly), високий (big, elevated, high-flown, long, overhead, tall, towering), найвища точка (acme, climax, culmination, peak, tiptop), заввишки у, дорого (dear, dearly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giận dữ sang trọng, đắt lớn, ở mức độ cao lớn mạnh mẽ, cao (aloft, high-pitched, lofty, superior, towering, upper), cao cao giá, cao cả mạnh, cao cấp; thượng, độ cao (intension, loftiness, performance), dữ dội (boot, formidable, heavy, impetuous, keen, ravenous, rude, severse, thundering, towering, vehement, violent), xa hoa kiêu kỳ, kiêu căng (assuming, hand, haughty, high-minded, high-toned, pretentious, proud, proud-hearted, proudly, proud-spirited, pround-stomached), mãnh liệt (ardent, ardently, blaze, burning, energetic, fierce, mightily, sin, vehement, violently), mãnh liệt; giận dữ sang trọng, trời cao, trọng; tối cao, trên cao quý, xa hoa (sumptuous), cao thượng (elevated, high-pitched, high-spirited, lordly, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, nobly). (various references) | |
Welsh | uchel (lofty, tall). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dara, guru. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | altus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | barezimanãm, berezô, berezañt, berezaite, upa, us. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | heah. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | haut. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tote sunhcqhsan oi arciereiV kai oi grammateiV kai oi presbuteroi tou laou eiV thn aulhn tou arcierewV tou legomenou kaiafa |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc congregati sunt principes sacerdotum et seniores populi in atrium principis sacerdotum qui dicebatur Caiaphas |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða wæren ge-samnede þa ealdres þasacerda. & hlafordes þas folkes to þare sacerdesealdres botle. þe wæs genemned kayphas. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Than the princes of prestis and the elder men of the puple were gaderid in to the halle of the prince of prestis, that was seid Cayfas, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then assembled togedder the chefe prestes and the scribes and the elders of the people to the palice of the hye preste called Cayphas |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga sacerdote nga punoan ug ang mga anciano sa lungsod nanagtigum sa balay sa labawng sacerdote nga ginganlan si Caifas, |
| Croatian | Uto se sabraše glavari sveæenièki i starješine narodne u dvoru velikoga sveæenika imenom Kajfe |
| Danish | Da forsamledes Ypperstepræsterne og Folkets Ældste i Ypperstepræstens Gård; han hed Kajfas. |
| Dutch | Toen vergaderden de overpriesters en de Schriftgeleerden, en de ouderlingen des volks, in de zaal des hogepriesters, die genaamd was Kajafas; |
| Finnish | Silloin ylipapit ja kansan vanhimmat kokoontuivat Kaifas nimisen ylimmäisen papin palatsiin |
| French | Alors les principaux sacrificateurs et les anciens du peuple se réunirent dans la cour du souverain sacrificateur, appelé Caïphe; |
| German | Da versammelten sich die Hohenpriester und Schriftgelehrten und die Ältesten im Volk in den Palast des Hohenpriesters, der da hieß Kaiphas, |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, chèf prèt yo ansanm ak chèf fanmi yo ki t'ap dirije pèp la reyini nan palè granprèt yo te rele Kayif la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu itu imam-imam kepala dan pemimpin-pemimpin Yahudi berkumpul di istana Imam Agung Kayafas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada masa itu berhimpunlah segala kepala imam dan orang tua-tua kaum itu di balai Imam Besar, yang bernama Kayafas, |
| Italian | Allora i sommi sacerdoti e gli anziani del popolo si riunirono nel palazzo del sommo sacerdote, che si chiamava Caifa, |
| Latvian | Tad sapulcçjâs augstie priesteri un tautas vecâkie augstâ priestera, kas saucâs Kaifa, namâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eisht va ny ard-saggyrtyn as ny scrudeyryn as shanstyr y phobble er nyn jaglym cooidjagh gys thie yn ard-saggyrt va enmyssit Caiaphas. |
| Maori | Na ka whakamine nga tohunga nui, nga karaipi, me nga kaumatua o te iwi, ki te whare o te tohunga nui, ko Kaiapa te ingoa. |
| Norwegian | Da kom yppersteprestene og folkets eldste sammen hos ypperstepresten, som hette Kaifas, i hans gård, |
| Portuguese | Então os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo se reuniram no pátio da casa do sumo sacerdote, o qual se chamava Caifás; |
| Rumanian | Atunci preoyii cei mai de seamq, cqrturarii wi bqtrknii norodului s`au strkns kn curtea marelui preot care se numea Caiafa; |
| Russian | фПЗДБ УПВТБМЙУШ РЕТЧПУЧСЭЕООЙЛЙ Й ЛОЙЦОЙЛЙ Й УФБТЕКЫЙОЩ ОБТПДБ ЧП ДЧПТ РЕТЧПУЧСЭЕООЙЛБ, РП ЙНЕОЙ лБЙБЖЩ, |
| Shuar | Nuyá Israer-patri uuntrisha Israer-shuara jintinniurisha Israer-shuara uuntrisha Kaipiasa jeen áarin iruntrarmiayi. Kaipiassha Israer-patri uuntriyayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces los principales sacerdotes y los ancianos del pueblo se reunieron en el palacio del sumo sacerdote, que se llamaba Caifás, |
| Swahili | Wakati huo makuhani wakuu na wazee wa watu walikutana pamoja katika ukumbi wa Kayafa, Kuhani Mkuu. |
| Swedish | Därefter församlade sig översteprästerna och folkets äldste hos översteprästen, som hette Kaifas, i hans hus, |
| Uma | Nto'u toe, imam pangkeni pai' totu'a to Yahudi morumpu hi tomi Imam Bohe to rahanga' Kayafas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "high": highball, highballed, highballing, highballs, highbinder, highbinders, highborn, highboy, highboys, highbred, highbrow, highbrowed, highbrowism, highbrowisms, highbrows, highbush, highchair, highchairs, higher, highest, highfalutin, highflier, highfliers, highflyer, highflyers, highhanded, highhandedly, highhandedness, highhandednesses, highjack, highjacked, highjacking, highjacks, highland, highlander, highlanders, highlands, highlife, highlifes, highlight, highlighted, highlighter, highlighters, highlighting, highlights, highly, highness, highnesses, highroad, highroads, highs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "high": overhigh, semihigh, thigh, ultrahigh. (additional references) | |
Words containing "high": superhighway, superhighways, thighbone, thighbones, thighed, thighs. (additional references) | |
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"High" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhikhu, digh, Hahhh, hahhhh, haih, Heeuggh, Hegg, hegh, heght, heig, heigh, Heigho, hfg, hgb, hgg, Hgi, hiah, hif, hig, higd, hige, Higg, higgs, highe, highl, highte, hign, higo, higth, higy, hihg, hirg, hith, Hithi, hjgh, Hogh, hugh, Hughf, hurgh, hyph, igh, pigh, whigh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "high" (pronounced hī") |
| 2 | h ī" | hi, Shanghai. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-h-i" | |
-1 letter: ghi. | |
-2 letters: hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i" | |
+1 letter: heigh, highs, hight, thigh. | |
+2 letters: eighth, height, higher, highly, highth, hights, thighs. | |
+3 letters: eighths, hagfish, haggish, hashing, heighth, heights, highboy, highest, highted, highths, highway, hogfish, hoggish, hushing, thighed. | |
+4 letters: eighthly, ghoulish, hatching, heighten, heighths, hiccough, highball, highborn, highboys, highbred, highbrow, highbush, highjack, highland, highlife, highness, highroad, highspot, hightail, highting, highways, hitching, hotching, humphing, hunching, hutching, lightish, overhigh, roughish, semihigh, shanghai, shushing, thuggish, toughish, whishing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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