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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

  • (arkikielessä) hi
  • (rikkinäinen englanti) 'igh
  • (vanhentunut) hye

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

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KäännösKonteksti
Adverbit
1.slangi
Substantiivit
2.
Adjektiivit
3.
4.slangi
5.
6.slangi

Määritelmät

Adjektiivi

  1. Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
  2. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
  3. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
  4. (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
  5. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
  6. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
  7. Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
  8. Most exalted; foremost.
  9. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
  10. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
  11. Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
  12. (of an opinion or practice, obsolete outside set phrases) Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
  13. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
  14. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
  15. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
  16. (with on or about) Keen, enthused.
  17. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
  18. Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
  19. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
  20. Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
  21. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
  22. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  23. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
  24. (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
  25. (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
  26. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
  27. (informal) 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.
  28. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
  29. (sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.

Verbi

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”).
  2. (obsolete) To rise.

Substantiivi

  1. (countable) 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).
  2. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
  3. (countable) A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
  4. (countable) A drug that gives such a high.
  5. (countable meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  6. (countable, card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
  7. (countable and uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of high school.

Adverbi

  1. In or to an elevated position.
  2. In or at a great value.
  3. At a pitch of great frequency.

Esimerkit

  • His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
  • high quality
  • Men must high them apace, and make haste.
  • The sun higheth.
  • 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.
  • That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.
  • 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.
  • I certainly can't sing that high.
  • Costs have grown higher this year again.
  • How high above land did you fly?
  • High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
  • High time it is this war now ended were.
  • 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
  • Plain living and high thinking are no more.
  • to hear and answer such high things
  • The balloon rose high in the sky.
  • An high look and a proud heart [...] is sin.
  • with rather a high manner
  • Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
  • Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
  • a high wind; high passions
  • The tailor liked his meat high.
  • Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
  • The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
  • The note was too high for her to sing.
  • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
  • My bank charges me a high interest rate.
  • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektihighedImperfektihighed
Partisiipin preesenshighingMonikkohighs
KomparatiivihigherSuperlatiivihighest
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenshighs

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