high
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
发音 hī
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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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).; The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
— Today's high was 32 °C.
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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
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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.
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A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
— A large high is centred on the Azores.
- The highest card dealt or drawn.
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Ellipsis of high school.
— He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High.
动词 v.
- Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”).
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To rise.
— The sun higheth.
形容词 adj.
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Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:; Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
— The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
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Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:; Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
— 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.
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Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:; Above the batter's shoulders.
— the pitch (or: the ball) was high
- Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:; Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
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Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
— three feet high three Mount Everests high
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
— The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.; Most exalted; foremost.
— the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.; Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
— high crimes, the high festival of the sun
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.; Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
— high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.; Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
— to hear and answer such high things
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Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
— high church High Tory
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Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
— in high spirits
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Keen, enthused.
— "Conversely, just because I am not high on positivity, it does not mean I am necessarily high on negativity."
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Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
— "Three extremely high people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but..."
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Luxurious; rich.
— high living, the high life
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Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
— a high tone
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With tall waves.
— The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
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Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
— high latitude, fish species in high arctic and antarctic areas
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Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
— My bank charges me a high interest rate.
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Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).; Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
— Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy
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Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
— The note was too high for her to sing.
- Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
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Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.; Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
— I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
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Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.; Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
— North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
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Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
— Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
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Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
— NO NEARER! (arrive! Fr.) the command given by the pilot of quarter-master, to the helmsman, to steer the ship no higher to the direction of the wind than the sails will operate to advance the ship in her course.
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Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
— Our defensive line is too high.
副词 adv.
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In or to an elevated position.
— How high above land did you fly?
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In or at a great value.
— Costs have grown higher this year again.
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At a pitch of great frequency.
— I certainly can't sing that high.
词形变化
词汇关系
反义词
衍生词
ace-high
ahigh
aim high
ankle-high
ask how high when someone says jump
at the high port
blow sky high
Bowland Forest High
come hell or high water
come high
contact high
fly high
for the high jump
friends in higher places
friends in high places
on high
get high
get off one's high horse
happy as a clam at high water
have high hopes
headhigh
height
heighth
hell or high water
helper's high
High Abbotside
high-accuracy
high adventure
High Alemannic
high altar
high and dry
high and low
High and Low Bishopside
high and mighty
high and tight
high angel
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
high as a Georgia pine
high as a kite
high as giraffe pussy
highback
highbacked
high-backed
high bailiff
highball
high bar
High Barnet
High Beach
high-beam
high beam
high beams
High Beech
High Bentham
highbie
high-binder
highbishop
high bit
High Blantyre
high blood
high blood pressure
high-blown
high-boiling
highborn
high-born
highbred
High Bridge
High Brooms
highbrow
high-budget
Highbury
highbush
high button shoe
high C
high-calorie
high camp
high card
high-card
high-center
high center
high centered
high-centered
high-centre
high centre
high centred
high-centred
high chair
highchair
high challenge
high-cheekboner
high-church
high churchman
high churchmanship
high-class
Highclere
high cockalorum
High Cogges
high color
high colour
high comedy
high comma
high command
high commissioner
high-concept
high concept
high context culture
high-context culture
high-cost
high cotton
high countertenor
high country
high court
high crawl
high crime
Highcroft
high cross
high cube
high culture
highcut
high-daddy
highday
high days and holidays
high-def
high-definition
high definition
high-definition television
high-density
high-density lipoprotein
high dependency unit
high dividend yield trap
high-dividend yield trap
high doh
high dot
high drama
high Earth orbit
High Easter
high end
high-end
high-endness
high-energy
high-entropy alloy
high entropy alloy
Higher Macdonald
Highett
high explosive
high-falutin
highfalutin
high falutin'
high-falutin'
high falutin
high-faluting
high faluting
high falution
high fantasy
high fashion
high-fat
highfather
high-fed
high-fiber
high fidelity
Highfields
high finance
high-finished
high-finned dragonet
high five
high-five
high flier
high-flier
high-flown
high-flyer
high flyer
high-flying
high Fowler's
high-frequency
high frequency
high-frequency gravitational wave
high frequency gravitational wave
high-frequency trading
high frontier
high-fructose corn syrup
high fructose corn syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
high-functioning autism
high functioning
high-functioning
highgate
Highgate Hill
High German
high-gloss
high-go
high-grade
high grinding
high ground
Highgrove
high-grown
high-growth
High Halden
High Halstow
High Ham
high-handed
high-handedly
high-handedness
high-hanging fruit
High Harrington
high-hat
high hat
highhearted
high-hearted
high-heartedly
high-heartedness
high heel
high-heel
high-heeled
high heels
high-holder
high-hole
high hopes
high horse
high hundreds
high-impact
high-income
high-intensity
high-intensity interval training
high intensity training
high-IQ
highish
High Island
high-jimmy-knacker
high jinks
High John root
high juice
high-jump
high jump
high jumper
high-jumper
high-key
High Kilburn
high-kilted
high-king
high king
high kingship
High Lake
highland
Highland Park
Highland Plains
highlands
Highland Valley
highleg
High Legh
high-level
high-level language
high-level synthesis
high licence
high license
highlife
high life
high-lift device
highlight
high line
highline
highlining
High Littleton
high living
high-living
high lonesome sound
high-low
highlow
high-low split
highly
high-lying
high-maintenance
highman
high-marking
High Marnham
high-masking
high mass
high-melting
high memory area
high milling
high-minded
high-mindedly
high-mindedness
high modernism
high modernity
highmost
high muckamuck
high-muck-a-muck
high muckety-muck
high-necked
high nellie
high-nelly
high nelly
Highness
high noon
High North
high-nosed
high note
high occupancy vehicle
high-occupancy vehicle
high-occupancy vehicle lane
high-octane
high office
high off the hog
high old time
High Ongar
high on life
high on one's own supply
high on the hog
high on the totem pole
High Orchard
high order bit
highpad
high pad
high-paid
High Park
high-pass
highpass
High Peak
high-performance
high-performance liquid chromatography
high pillow
high-pitch
high-pitched
high place
High Plains
High Point
highpoint
high politics
high-post
high-power
high-powered
high-precision
high-pressure
high-pressure liquid chromatography
high-priced
high priest
high priestess
high-priestly
high probability trade
high-profile
high profile
high-proof
High Prussian
high-quality
high quality rip
High Range
high-ranking
highreaching
high relief
high-rent
high-res
high-resolution
High Rhine
high-rise
high-riser
high-rise syndrome
high-risk
high road
high-roller
high roller
high scaler
high school
high schooler
high score
high-score table
high score table
high sea
high seas
high season
high-seeded
high shelf
high sheriff
high side
high-side
high-sighted
high sign
high society
high-sounding
high-spec
high speed
high-speed
high-speed rail
high speed steel
high-speed steel
high-spirited
high-spiritedness
high spirits
highspot
high-stakes
highstand
high-status
high steel
high-step
high-stepper
high-stepping
high-stick
high-sticking
high-stomached
high strangeness
high street
high striker
high strikes
high-strung
high summer
high-support
high surrogate
high-T
high table
high tackle
high-tail
hightail
high-tailed
high-tail it
high-taper
high taper
high tea
high tech
high-tech
high-techness
high technology
high-temperature superconductivity
high-temperature superconductor
high-tempo
high ten
high-tension
high tension
high-test
high-test peroxide
highth
high-ticket
high tide
hightide
high tider
high time
high-time
high toby
Highton
high-toned
high-top
high top
high touch
high-touch
High Town
Hightown
high treason
high tunnel
high undern
high up
high-up
high vacuum
Highvale
high-value
high-value target
Highveld
high-velocity
high-vis
high-visibility
high-voltage
high voltage
high-voltage transmission line
highwall
high-water
highwater
high water
high-water mark
high waters
highway
High Westwood
high-wheeler
high wine
high wire
highwire
high-wire
high-wire walker
Highworth
highwrought
high-wrought
High Wycombe
high yaller
high yellow
high-yield
high yo-yo
hit the high notes
hold one's head high
hot and high
I have high blood pressure
in high dudgeon
in high feather
in high gear
junior high school
Kilburn High and Low
knee high
knee-high blackberry
knee-high by the Fourth of July
knee-high to a grasshopper
leave someone high and dry
letter-high
logic high
Mile High City
Mile High Club
moral high ground
Most High
mount the high horse
nonhigh
Omaha high-low split
on one's high horse
on the high rope
on the high ropes
paleo-high
ride high
ride the high horse
rower's high
run high
runner's high
semihigh
senior high school
Siberian high
South Leigh and High Cogges
stink to high heaven
sugar high
superhigh
super high frequency
Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby
three-high
to high heaven
type-high
ultrahigh
ultra high frequency
unhigh
union high school
very high frequency
white coat high blood pressure
with a high arm
with a high hand
with one's head held high
herbal high
junior high
jr. high
legal high
mini-high
senior high
sen high
词源
词源 1
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
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend; crooked”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Yola heegh, heigh, heighe, hia, hie (“high”), North Frisian hoog, huuch (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch, hoog (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Alemannic German hooch (“high”), Central Franconian huh (“high”), Cimbrian hoach, hòach (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), German Low German hooch (“high”), Limburgish hoeg (“high”), Luxembourgish héich (“high”), Mòcheno heach (“high”), Vilamovian huch (“high”), Yiddish הויך (hoykh, “high”), Danish høj (“high”), Faroese háur, høgur (“high”), Gutnish haugar (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Norwegian Bokmål høg, høy (“high”), Norwegian Nynorsk høg, håg, hå (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs, “high”), Vandalic *oas (“high”), Old French haut (“high”) (from Old High German hoh (“high”)); also with Ancient Greek Καύκᾰσος (Kaúkăsos, “Caucasus”), Latvian koks (“tree”), Lithuanian kúoka (“stick with thick end, pounder, pestle”), Bulgarian ку́ка (kúka, “hook”), Albanian çukë (“peak, summit, top”).
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
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend; crooked”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Yola heegh, heigh, heighe, hia, hie (“high”), North Frisian hoog, huuch (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch, hoog (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Alemannic German hooch (“high”), Central Franconian huh (“high”), Cimbrian hoach, hòach (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), German Low German hooch (“high”), Limburgish hoeg (“high”), Luxembourgish héich (“high”), Mòcheno heach (“high”), Vilamovian huch (“high”), Yiddish הויך (hoykh, “high”), Danish høj (“high”), Faroese háur, høgur (“high”), Gutnish haugar (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Norwegian Bokmål høg, høy (“high”), Norwegian Nynorsk høg, håg, hå (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs, “high”), Vandalic *oas (“high”), Old French haut (“high”) (from Old High German hoh (“high”)); also with Ancient Greek Καύκᾰσος (Kaúkăsos, “Caucasus”), Latvian koks (“tree”), Lithuanian kúoka (“stick with thick end, pounder, pestle”), Bulgarian ку́ка (kúka, “hook”), Albanian çukë (“peak, summit, top”).
词源 2
From Middle English hegen, heghen, heien, a conflation of Old English ġehēgan (“to perform, conduct”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hauwjan) and hēan (“to raise up, exalt”) (from *hauhijan), also influenced by heigh (“high”).
词源 3
See hie.
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