high

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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). countable
    — It was one of the highs of his career.
  2. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Today's high was 32 °C.
  3. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. countable
    — Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
  4. A drug that gives such a high. countable
    — 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.
  5. A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone. countable,informal
    — A large high is centred on the Azores.
  6. The highest card dealt or drawn. countable
  7. Ellipsis of high school. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,informal
    — 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.
  1. Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”). alt-of,alternative,obsolete
  2. To rise. obsolete
    — The sun higheth.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:; Above the batter's shoulders.
    — the pitch (or: the ball) was high
  4. 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.
  5. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
    — three feet high three Mount Everests high
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
    — high church High Tory
  12. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
    — in high spirits
  13. Keen, enthused.
    — "Conversely, just because I am not high on positivity, it does not mean I am necessarily high on negativity."
  14. 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. informal
    — "Three extremely high people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but..."
  15. Luxurious; rich.
    — high living, the high life
  16. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
    — a high tone
  17. With tall waves.
    — The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
  18. 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
  19. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
    — My bank charges me a high interest rate.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
    — Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
  26. 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.
  27. Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
    — Our defensive line is too high.
副词 adv.
  1. In or to an elevated position.
    — How high above land did you fly?
  2. In or at a great value.
    — Costs have grown higher this year again.
  3. At a pitch of great frequency.
    — I certainly can't sing that high.

词形变化

higher comparative highest superlative heigh alternative,dialectal hi alternative,informal higher comparative highest superlative heigh alternative,dialectal hi alternative,informal highs plural heigh alternative,dialectal hi alternative,informal highs present,singular,third-person highing participle,present highed participle,past highed past highs present,singular,third-person highing participle,present highed participle,past highed past

词汇关系

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low
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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 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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 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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”).
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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