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height Definition

height (hīt)

noun

  1. the topmost point of anything
  2. the highest limit; greatest degree; extreme; climax; culmination the height of absurdity
  3. the distance from the bottom to the top
    1. elevation or distance above a given level, as above the surface of the earth or sea; altitude
    2. elevation (of the sun, a star, etc.) above the horizon, measured in degrees
    1. a relatively great distance from bottom to top
    2. a relatively great distance above a given level
  6. a point or place considerably above most others; eminence; elevation; hill
  7. Obsolete high rank

Etymology: < earlier highth < ME heighthe < OE hiehthu (akin to Goth hauhitha) < heah: see high & -th

height Synonyms

height

n.

  1. Altitude

    altitude, elevation, extent upward, pitch, prominence, loftiness, highness, perpendicular distance, angular measurement, upright distance, tallness, stature; see also expanse, extent, length 2.

    Antonyms depth, breadth*, width.

  2. Climax

    crowning point, end, crisis; see climax, maximum, top 1.

  3. An eminence

    rise, slope, alp; see hill, mountain 1.

height refers to distance from bottom to top a figurine four inches in height or to distance above a given level he dropped it from a height of ten feet; altitude and elevation refer especially to distance above a given level (usually the surface of the earth) and generally connote great distance the altitude of an airplane, the elevation of a mountain; stature refers especially to the height of a human being standing erect he was short in stature

height Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • meter: The Sycamore can reach a height of 30 meters.
  • foot: The video camera is located on an inside wall directed toward the main entrance door, at a height of 9 feet.
  • boom: This was at the height of the dot.com boom.

Converse of object

  • reach: The Sycamore can reach a height of 30 meters.
  • adjust: Set the post in place, and adjust the height as necessary with more mix.
  • dado: Wall tiling from Porcelanosa will be fitted to dado height in bathrooms and shower rooms and to full height in shower enclosures.
  • mow: Makes a very high quality playing surface with a compact and dense sward with a mowing height of just 5mm.

Adjective modifier

  • dizzy: He is also a keen adventurer planning to scale the dizzy heights of Mount Everest in 2007.
  • adjustable: Adjustable seat height, padded head support, padded safety restraint.
  • heady: He started his working life in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank before giving up the heady heights of finance for writing.
  • lofty: I begin to realize that they are acrobats aiming at loftier heights than those of the dome.
  • giddy: I hardly expected to be able to complete it, let alone achieve the giddy heights of Senior Honors!
  • maximum: What is the maximum height a 215mm thick wall can be raised to?

Modifies a noun

  • adjustment: The first of these tools to be implemented in the Bath Model was a height adjustment slider.

Noun used with modifier

  • waist: Cat and Mouse Everyone should stand in a circle holding the chute stretched out at about waist height.
  • ceiling: White bathroom suite with tiled surround to ceiling height.
  • eaves: The unit has a double timber door 1.81m wide x 2.0m high and an internal eaves height of 2.89m.
  • saddle: Step 3 For most people and bikes the correct saddle height corresponds to 109 per cent of the inseam ( crotch to ground ).
  • shoulder: Try to make the support high enough so that you don't have to use the hedge trimmer above shoulder height.
  • wave: Wave steepness: The ratio of wave height to wavelength.
height Quotes

Thespanof a man's outspread armsisequal tohisheight.

—Leonardo daVinci

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

—SunTzu

my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

   Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.

—Frost, Robert Lee

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

—Newman,John Henry

   What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?ö If design govern in a thing so small.

—Frost, Robert Lee

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

'None can usurp this height,'returned that shade, 'But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.'

—Keats,John

You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes or endeavouring to move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.

—Dryden,John

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