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Phonetic: "/haɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

Definition: A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best.

Example: It was one of the highs of his career.

Definition: A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

Example: That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.

Definition: A drug that gives such a high.

Definition: A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

Example: A large high is centred on the Azores.

Definition: The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period.

Example: Inflation reached a ten-year high.

Definition: The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.

Example: Today's high was 32°C.

Definition: The highest card dealt or drawn.

Phonetic: "/haɪ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To rise.

Example: The sun higheth.

Phonetic: "/haɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.

Example: The balloon rose high in the sky.   The wall was high.   a high mountain

Definition: Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

Definition: Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

Example: three feet high   three Mount Everests high

Definition: Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.

Example: The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

Definition: Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).

Example: high crimes, the high festival of the sun

Definition: Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.

Example: high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages

Definition: (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.

Example: high latitude, high antiquity

Definition: (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.

Definition: Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.

Example: in high spirits

Definition: (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.

Example: high living, the high life

Definition: Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.

Example: a high tone

Definition: (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.

Definition: (of a body of water) With tall waves.

Definition: Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

Example: My bank charges me a high interest rate.   I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.   high voltage   high prices   high winds   a high number

Definition: (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).

Example: The note was too high for her to sing.

Definition: Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.

Definition: Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

Definition: (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

Example: Epicures do not cook game before it is high.

Definition: Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Definition: (of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.

Phonetic: "/haɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In or to an elevated position.

Example: How high above land did you fly?

Definition: In or at a great value.

Example: Costs have grown higher this year again.

Definition: At a pitch of great frequency.

Example: I certainly can't sing that high.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.

Definition: (heading) Expressing a condition.

Phonetic: "/ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Full of danger.

Example: Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.

Definition: Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Definition: In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Definition: Hard to suit; difficult to please.

Definition: Reserved; not affable.

Phonetic: "/pleɪs/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

Definition: A location or position in space.

Definition: A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

Definition: A passage or extract from a book or document.

Definition: A topic.

Definition: A frame of mind.

Example: I'm in a strange place at the moment.

Definition: A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

Definition: (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.

Definition: A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

Definition: Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

Example: three decimal places;  the hundreds place

Definition: Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

Example: That's what I said in the first place!

Definition: Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Phonetic: "/ɔː(ɹ)/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either [...] or".

Example: He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.

Definition: An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.

Definition: Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.

Definition: Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

Example: It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!

Definition: Connects two equivalent names.

Example: The country Myanmar, or Burma

Phonetic: "/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A particular point or place in physical space.

Definition: An act of locating.

Definition: An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

Definition: A leasing on rent.

Definition: A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

Definition: The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.