high | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
- A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
- The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
2.Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- It's difficult to breathe when humidity is high.
- Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.
- Tom is a high school student.
3.Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- High time it is this war now ended were.
- Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
4.Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
- His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.

1.In or to an elevated position.
- How high above land did you fly?
- The desks were piled high with magazines.
2.In or at a great value.
- Costs have grown higher this year again.
3.At a pitch of great frequency.
- I certainly can't sing that high.

1.A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- It was one of the highs of his career.
- South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
- Inflation reached a ten-year high.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kewk-

Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s

Proto-Germanic *hauhaz

Proto-West Germanic *hauh

Old English hēah

Middle English heigh

English high