Cos'è high?
Cos'è high?
- Advanced in development or complexity: high forms of animal life; higher mathematics.
- Far removed in time; remote: high antiquity.
- Having a relatively great elevation; extending far upward: a high mountain; a high tower.
- Extending a specified distance upward: a cabinet ten feet high.
- Far or farther from a reference point: was too high in the offensive zone to take a shot.
- Being at or near the peak or culminating stage: the high tourist season; high summer.
- Slightly spoiled or tainted; gamy. Used of meat.
- Having a bad smell; malodorous.
- Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively large number of sound-wave cycles per second: the high tones of a flute.
- Raised in pitch; not soft or hushed: a high voice.
- Situated relatively far from the equator: a high latitude.
- Of great importance: set a high priority on funding the housing program.
- Eminent in rank or status: a high official.
- Serious; grave: high crimes and misdemeanors.
- Constituting a climax; crucial: The chase scene is the high point of the film.
- Characterized by lofty or stirring events or themes: high adventure; high drama.
- Lofty or exalted in quality or character: a person of high morals.
- Greater than usual or expected, as in quantity, magnitude, cost, or degree: "A high price has to be paid for the happy marriage with the four healthy children” ( Doris Lessing).
- Favorable: He has a high opinion of himself.
- Of great force or violence: high winds.
- Indicating excitement or euphoria: high spirits.
- Slang Intoxicated by or as if by alcohol or a drug, such as cocaine or marijuana.
- Luxurious; extravagant: high living.
- Linguistics Of or relating to vowels produced with part of the tongue close to the palate, as in the vowel of tree.
- Of, relating to, or being the gear configuration or setting, as in an automotive transmission, that produces the greatest vehicular speed with respect to engine speed.