high

Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

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

Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.

Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.

A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.

Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

the pitch (or: the ball) was high

Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

three feet high three Mount Everests high

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

In or to an elevated position.

How high above land did you fly?

The desks were piled high with magazines.

In or at a great value.

Costs have grown higher this year again.

At a pitch of great frequency.

I certainly can't sing that high.

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.

Inflation reached a ten-year high.

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).

Today's high was 32 °C.

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

Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine

They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.

A drug that gives such a high.

No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.

A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

A large high is centred on the Azores.