height
11height — O.E. hiehþu, Anglian hehþo highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven, from root of heah high (see HIGH (Cf. high)) + itha, Germanic abstract noun suffix. Cf. O.N. hæð, M.Du. hoochte, O.H.G. hohida, Goth. hauhiþa height. Meaning d …
12height — [n1] altitude, top part acme, apex, apogee, brow, ceiling, crest, crown, cusp, elevation, extent, highness, hill, loftiness, mountain, peak, pinnacle, pitch, prominence, rise, solstice, stature, summit, tallness, tip, tiptop, vertex, zenith;… …
13height — index ceiling, culmination, elevation, eminence, pinnacle, primacy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
14height */*/*/ — UK [haɪt] / US noun Word forms height : singular height plural heights 1) [countable/uncountable] the degree to which something is high or someone is tall He was about the same height as his wife. in height: a graceful tower, rising to 400 feet… …
15height — n. 1) to attain, reach a height 2) to clear; scale a height 3) a dizzy, precipitous, vertiginous height; dizzying heights 4) a height above; below (at a height of two hundred feet above sea level) 5) at a height (at the height of one s success;… …
16height — [[t]ha͟ɪt[/t]] ♦♦♦ heights 1) N VAR: oft with poss, amount in N, N of amount The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top. Her weight is about normal for her height... I am 5 6 in height... The wave here has… …
17height — noun 1 how tall sb/sth is ADJECTIVE ▪ full, maximum ▪ He drew himself up to his full height and glared at us. ▪ considerable, great, towering ▪ …
18height — /haIt/ noun 1 TALL a) (U) how tall someone is: sb s height: State your age, height, and weight. | be the same/right etc height: My daughter s already about the same height as I am. b) (C, U) the distance between the base and the top of something …
19height — /huyt/, n. 1. extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet. 2. distance upward from a given level to a fixed point: the height from the ground to the first floor; the height of an animal at the shoulder. 3. the… …
20Height — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Height >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 height height altitude elevation Sgm: N 1 eminence eminence pitch Sgm: N 1 loftiness loftiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 sublimity sublimity GR …
