Height

Definitions: Height

Height

Noun

1. The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.

2. The highest level or degree attainable: "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession".

3. Natural height of a person or animal in an upright position.

4. Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "height" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Height \Height\, noun. [Written also hight.]. (Websters 1913)

Aerospace

Geography

Math

Military

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Transportation

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Synonyms: Height

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Desire

Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.

Elevation

Stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.

Fashion

Man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum; (taste); the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand; (nobility); elite; (distinction); smart set; the four hundred; in crowd.

Greatness

Verb: be great; Adjective: run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.

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.

Height

Noun: height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; Adjective: sublimity.

Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.

Repute

Greatness; Adjective: eminence; height; importance; preeminence, supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder, top of the tree.

Resentment

Adverb: angrily; Adjective: in the height of passion; in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment.

Summit

Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole.

Superiority

Adverb: beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height.

Crosswords: Height

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Hey y'all see a little Asian dude about this height with a steering wheel on his arm? (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbabilityyou're an improbable person, Eve, but so am I. We have that in common. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Hey, don't make fun of my height. (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,753. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen? (references; author: unknown)

Dalziel and Pascoe: On Beulah Height (1999)

Height of the Sky (1999)

For Your Height Only (1979)

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Books

• A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity: A Novel (reference)

• Daily Life in Ancient Rome : The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (reference)

• Increasing Height Through Exercise (reference)

• My Weight Is Always Perfect for My Height, Which Varies (reference)

• Radiohead: From a Great Height (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• For Your Height Only (reference)

• The Height of the Sky (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Height of Fashion (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Adjustable Height Monitor Standby Ambir (reference)

• LCD MONITOR STAND HEIGHT ADJ (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Perfect Height Swing with Mini Maestro (reference)

• Rival CN 753W Adjustable Height Can Opener (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Taxol, found in the bark of the pacific yew tree (taxus brevifolin), is a promising anti-cancer drug. It takes 30,000 pounds of bark (2,000-4,000 trees) to produce one kilogram of taxol. The tree had to be sacrificed to produce the bark. It can take decades for pacific yew to reach shoulder height, small trees yield less bark. Alternatives for producing taxol are being explored.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Hurricane Pauline approaching Mexico on 7 October 1997 1745 UT, as viewedby NOAA GOES-8.The image is a false color composite created from the visible, 4 micron and11 micron channels. The perspective view was generated using the 11 micronchannel as the height field.Credit: NASA.

Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height.Credit: NASA.

Signal at Stillpond, Maryland Instrument height of 120 feet - top of signal 275 feet 39th Parallel Survey Record signal height from wooden tower.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Station Greene, Indiana Instrument height is 152 feet above ground 39th Parallel Survey Triangulation party of George A. Fairfield.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Photo #1 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking down from the top of a pressure ridge. Man in picture provides sense of height of ridge.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Tail radome housing doppler range height radar.Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Looking upstream at the original culvert. The culvert was approximately 36" in diameter. Before placement of the new culvert there was an 18" tidal height differential between the up and down stream sides of the marsh. This restriction reduced available fish habitat and allowed non-native plant species to invade the marsh.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut to make way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height. During the restoration, bushes as big as 9" in diameter were cleared to provide habitat for mangroves to recolonize. Without restoration efforts to clear Brazilian Pepper, the bush could take over mangrove habitat in two years time.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A long trail of blood which had flowed from his head, descended in ruddy streaks from the window to the height of the first story, where it stopped.

I fear our happiness is at the height.

Noah caught him and threw him up on the top, where he sat rigid and shivering at the height.

On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height, not above five hundred yards from me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

BMI uses a mathematical formula based on a person's height and weight. (references)

Indices that are derived from height and weight such as body mass index. (references)

Go straight up from that point until you come to the line that matches your height. (references)

Business

The standards are based on measurements of 33 priority pollutants and smoke stack height. (references)

To meet the need of housing a larger population, residential buildings are going to increase in height by several stories. (references)

Moreover, many companies are introducing new, ergonomically swivel chairs, which typically have movable backrests and seats that adjust to the user's height and weight. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

In October 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River in Gujarat could begin immediately, reaching a height of 90 meters, and could proceed in stages thereafter up to a finished height of 138 meters. (references)

Somalia

The U.N. estimated that approximately 305,000 Somalis were living as refugees in neighboring countries, including approximately 139,000 in Kenya at year's end, a decrease from more than 400,000 at the height of the humanitarian crisis in 1992. There were approximately 60-70,000 Somali refugees in Ethiopia and 23,872 Somali refugees in Djibouti at year's end. (references)

Economic History

Korea

However, the ROKG did not impose such restrictions even during the height of the financial crisis in late 1997. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The two were stripped and forced to climb trees and jump from a height of three meters. (references)

Political Economy

Korea

President Kim Dae-jung was elected President in December 1987 at the height of the financial crisis. (references)

Trade

Korea

At the height of the economic crisis, when many foreign banks reduced their exposure to Korea, Eximbank agreed to provide short and medium-term credit guarantees for capital goods and services to help to ensure confidence in the Korean market. (references)

Worker Rights

Uganda

Some structures have tripled in height above the original foundations, leading local engineers to express reservations about the structural integrity of these workplaces. (references)

China

The ACFTU's loss of membership in the state-owned sector and its weakness in the private sector have reduced ACFTU membership from nearly 100 percent of the urban workforce during the height of the planned economy to approximately 50 percent (or 103 million) during the year, according to the ACFTU. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The height of the heavens

Expressions using "height": a dizzy height ♦ actual aerial height ♦ aerial height ♦ Arlington Height ♦ at its height ♦ bombing height ♦ breast height ♦ Broadview Height ♦ bugging height ♦ centre height ♦ centre line average height ♦ Cleveland Height ♦ cloud base height ♦ commanding height ♦ Crestline Height ♦ decision height ♦ diameter at breast height ♦ diameter breast height ♦ dizzy height ♦ drawn oneself up to his full height ♦ drop height ♦ eye height ♦ fortified height ♦ Frankfort Height ♦ from a height ♦ gage height ♦ gauge height ♦ giddy height ♦ Hasbrouck Height ♦ height above sea level ♦ height above touchdown ♦ height finder ♦ height gage ♦ height gauge ♦ Height loss ♦ height of arch ♦ height of burst ♦ height of cloud base ♦ height of elegance ♦ height of folly ♦ height of the season ♦ height of the summer ♦ height pattern ♦ in height ♦ it is the height of impudence! ♦ Kimberlin Height ♦ Linthicum Height ♦ lose height ♦ lower bumper height ♦ metacentric height ♦ metacentric height GM ♦ minimum descent height ♦ net height ♦ of medium height ♦ of respectable height ♦ on height ♦ one's full height ♦ optimum height ♦ optimum height of burst ♦ parachute deployment height ♦ phreatic height ♦ predominant height ♦ pulse height analyzer ♦ rise to a great height ♦ safe burst height ♦ safety height ♦ Santa Ana Height ♦ stump height ♦ the height of elegance ♦ the height of folly ♦ true height ♦ upper bumper height ♦ vertex height ♦ what height is he?. Additional references.

Beginning with "height": height-adjustable, height-adjusting, height-adjustment, height-indicator, height-keeping error, height-lock mode, height-of-the-season, height-testing, height-to-weight, height-weight, height-wise.

Ending with "height": ankle-height, double-height, full-height, head-height, mid-height, vowel-height, waist-height.

Albanian

sop (bung, rib), shtat (constitution, inches, stature), majë (aiguille, alp, apex, cusp, nab, naze, Neb, needle, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof), lartësi mbi nivelin e detit (elevation), lartësi (altitude, altitudes, elevation, eminence, headway, highness, Hill, inches, level, loftiness, pitch, rise, stature, superiority, swell, swelling), kulm (acme, apex, bloom, climax, crescendo, crisis, crown, culmination, dead, extremity, flower, heat, heyday, meridian, nab, payoff, peak, pink, pinnacle, prime, summit, superlative, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), kodër (fell, hill, knoll, monticule, rise, tump, tumulus, whale-back), gjatësi (endurance, length, longitude, space), breg (bank, bar, brow, coast, hill, hump, knoll, shore, side, strand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوق البحر, ‏قمة (acme, apex, climax, cop, crest, crown, head, heyday, high, meridian, peak, pinnacle, prime, summit, tip, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), ‏طول القامة (tallness), ‏إرتفاع (advance, altitude, augment, elevation, heaviness, heaving, high, highness, inflation, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, upheaval), ‏أعالى, ‏أرض مرتفعة, ‏رقم قياسي (record), ‏شموخ (glory, highness, rise, tallness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръст (growth, inches, size, stature), хълм (eminence, hump, monticule, mound, prominence), кулминационна точка (acme, climax, culmination, high water mark, noon, peak, pinnacle, zenith), кота (elevation), възвишение (eminence, prominence, rise, rising, swell, swelling, tor, upland), връх (acme, apex, cap, consummation, cope-stone, cusp, extremity, full, gad, head, heyday, loop, meridian, peak, perfection, pink, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex), височина над морското равнище (altitude), височина (altitude, drop, elevation, gauntness, highness, key, loftiness, pitch, rise, upland), апогей (acme, apogee, crest, culmination, heyday, high tide, meridian, pinnacle, pride, summit, zenith). (various references)

Chinese 

高度 (high degree, highly, highness, very). (various references)

Czech

výška (altitude, depth, elevation, loftiness, pitch, tallness, thickness). (various references)

Danish

højde (altitude, body length, tallness). (various references)

Dutch

hoogte (altitude, drop, head, height above sea level, level, travel). (various references)

Esperanto

alto (altitude), alteco. (various references)

Faeroese

hædd (floor, level, storey, story). (various references)

Farsi 

منتهادرجه (Altitude, Climax, Head), تکبر (Arrogance, Insolence, Pride, Ruffe), عرش (Heaven), عظمت (Awful, Grandeur, Magneficence), جای مرتفع (High), اسمان (Heaven, Loft, Sky), ارتفاع (Altitude), رفعت (Elation, Loom, Stature, Sublimity), دربحبوحه , بلندی (Altitude, Eminence, Lift, Loom, Sublimity, Supremacy). (various references)

Finnish

korkeus (altitude, height above sea level, pitch). (various references)

French

hauteur (head, heaviness, heaving), altitude (height above sea level). (various references)

German

höhe (altitude, amount, build, depth, elevation, extent, head, heaviness, highness, Hill, latitude, level, loftiness, rate, size, summit, top, treble). (various references)

Greek 

ύψοσ (altitude, loftiness, pitch, soar, stature, sublime, sublimeness, tallness), μπόι (build, stature), ανάστημα (body length, build, size, stance, stature, tallness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרום (peak, sky), שיא (acme, apex, climax, high, highlight, maximum, peak, pinnacle, summit, top, zenith), עיל, על (about, above, by, on, onto, to, toward, towards, unto, upon), �"ר (mountain), �'וב�" (altitude, elevation, exaltation, high, highness, pitch, tallness), �'בע�" (knoll, mountain), �'ב�"ות (haughtiness, tallness), רמ�" (degree, eminence, high place, highland, level, plateau, standard), רום (elevation, highness, level), � וף (elevation, landscape, panorama, prospect, scene, scenery, view, vista). (various references)

Hungarian

magasság (altitude, depth, elevation, highness, loftiness, tallness), magaslat (altitude, bulge, elevation, eminence, high ground, Hill, hummock, pitch, prominence, rise, rising ground). (various references)

Indonesian

tinggi (aloft, lofty, tall). (various references)

Irish

airde. (various references)

Italian

altitudine (altitude, ELEV, elevation), altura (Barrow, deep sea, high ground, high sea, Hill, rise), altezza (altitude, breadth, depth, elevation, Highness, loftiness, overall width, pitch, rise, stature, width). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背丈 (stature), 縦 (length), 丘 (hill, knoll, rising ground), 丈 (all, as, just, length, measure, only, stature). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかさ, たかみ (elevated place, excellent idea, opinion), たけ (all, another family, bamboo, length, measure, middle, mountain, peak, stature), たて (buckler, escutcheon, length, pretext, shield, sword battle), おか (hill, knoll, rising ground), きわみ (acme, extremity), きょく (affair, big frame, channel, climax, culmination, department, extreme, extremity, nadir, piece of music, pole, situation, tune, zenith), し�"ちょう (brand new, discretion, elongation, expansion, extension, profound, prudence, Shinchou, stature, the Manchu Dynasty, uncompression), まっさいちゅう (midst), うわぜい (stature), せたけ (stature), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), �"うど (advanced, altitude, arable soil, barren or infertile soil, earth, hades, hardness, intensity of light, loess, solidity, wasteland, yellow ochre, yellow soil), �"う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), �"っちょう (pinnacle). (various references)

Korean 

� 도 (Altitude, heights). (various references)

Lombard

altezza (altitude). (various references)

Manx

yrjid (eminence, headway, highness), challaghan, ardys (exaltation, greatness), ard (big, compass point, direction, district, fell, high, high place, incline, loud, pole, region, tall, towering). (various references)

Norwegian

høyde (altitude, elevation). (various references)

Papiamen

haltura (altitude), altura (altitude). (various references)

Pig Latin

eighthay

Polish

wysokość. (various references)

Portuguese

altura (altitude, eminent, head, inch, loftiness, stature), altitude (altitude, inch, level), eminência (altitude, eminence, inch, rise). (various references)

Romanian

grosime (bigness, breadth, bulk, bulkiness, depth, stoutness, thickness), înålţime (altitude), adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, depth, horizon, pregnancy, profound, profoundness, profundity, wisdom), altitudine (altitude), apogeu (acme, apex, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, heyday, high water mark, it, noon, noonday, noontide, summit, zenith), creastã (aigrette, back, brow, comb, coping, crest, edge, hogback, knoll, razor edge, ridge, spine, top, tuft), culme (acme, apex, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, heyday, it, noon, noonday, noontide, paroxysm, peak, perfection, perisher, ridge, summit, top, vertex, zenith), înãlţime (altitude, elevation, eminence, highness, inch, lift, loftiness, pitch, summit, superiority, top), grad înalt, vârf (acme, apex, cap, climax, crest, cusp, edge, end, head, knoll, nib, nozzle, peak, pinnacle, point, style, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping), mãreţie (brilliance, brilliancy, elevation, gorgeousness, grandeur, greatness, loftiness, magnificence, majesty, mightiness, splendor, splendour), proporţie (measure, percentage, proportion, rate, ratio, scale), ridicãturã (highness, lift, projection, rising, swell), stat (country, figure, list, polity, power, remaining, state, stature, stopping), staturã (figure, inch, make, stature), tãrie (bitterness, depth, energy, fastness, firmness, force, hardness, might, resolution, sky, solidity, steadfastness, stoutness, strength, vigor, vigour), deal (ascent, down, elevation, eminence, Hill, Mount, vineyard). (various references)

Russian 

высота (altitude, depth, inches, level, pitch, tallness). (various references)

Scottish

� rdan (anger, eminence, haughtiness, hill, pride), � irde (altitude, highness : air � irde, in height : an, point of the compass;: an � irde). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrh (acme, apex, crest, cusp, head, peak, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, top), visina kota, visina (altitude, astro altitude, elevation, highness, inches, level, tallness), rast (growth, inches). (various references)

Spanish

elevación (altitude, elevation, hoisting, jacking up, lift, lifting, raising), altura (altitude, elevation, head, high altitude, highness, loftiness, mountain region, rise, stature, tallness, upland), altitud (altitude, elevation, height above sea level, highness), cerro (Hill, mountain, mt). (various references)

Swedish

höjd (altitude, elevation, eminence, high, highness, Hill, top). (various references)

Thai

ระ�"ับที่สูงที่สุ�", ความสูง, จุ�"ที่สูงสุ�". (various references)

Turkish

zirve (acme, apex, apogee, cap, climax, crown, culmination, cusp, head, high, high tide, meridian, payoff, peak, Pike, pink, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith), yükseklik (acro-, altitude, elevation, extent, highness, loftiness, rise, steepness, swell), yükseklík, tepe (apex, apical, cap, crest, crown, down, eminence, eminency, fell, head, hill, hump, Mount, peak, ridge, rise, roof, tip, top, topknot, vertex), irtifa (altitude, elevation, gradient), doruk (acme, apex, apical, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, cusp, heyday, high tide, meridian, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, top, vertex, zenith), boy (bulk, clan, length, linear measurement, size, stature, tribe), írtífa (altitude). (various references)

Turkmen 

boя, beяiklik, belentlik. (various references)

Ukranian 

височина (elevation, eminence), висота (altitude, eminence, highness, inches, stature), зріст. (various references)

Vietnamese 

chiều cao, bề cao (loftiness, tallness), độ cao điểm cao, đỉnh cao nhất (pinnacle). (various references)

Welsh

uchelder (highness), uchder (altitude, top), goruchelder (summit), entrych (firmament, zenith), anterth (meridian, prime, zenith). (various references)

2. us, sukud, sur. (various references)

adultis, adultumque, altitudine, altitudinem, altitudines, altitudinis, altitudo, altum, arce, arcem, arci, arcis, arcum, ascensu, ascensum, ascensus, proceritas, statura, staturae, staturam, sublimitas, sublimitate, sublimitatem, superadulta. (various references)

bareshna, barezahi, barezayå. (various references)

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