Meaning of height | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
   countable, uncountable
2. The distance from the base to the top of something
3. A surname.
4. altura, alto; estatura.
5. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
   countable, uncountable
6. altitude
7. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse)
8. Abbr. h The distance from the base of something to the top.
9. The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
   countable, uncountable
10. The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge
11. The condition or attribute of being relatively or sufficiently high or tall: Height is an advantage in basketball.
12. The amplitude of a sinusoid.
    countable, uncountable
13. The amplitude of a sinusoid
14. Often heightsa. A hill, mountain, or other piece of ground that stands out from the surrounding land.
15. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
    countable, uncountable
16. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level
17. The highest or uppermost point; the summit or apex: finally reached the height of the mountain.
18. A high point.
    countable, uncountable
19. Obsolete High rank, estate, or degree.
    Obsolete
20. The highest point or maximum degree.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
21. the vertical distance from the bottom or lowest part of something to the top or apex
22. A mountain, especially a very high one.
    countable, uncountable
23. the vertical distance of an object or place above the ground or above sea level; altitude
24. An area of land at the top of a cliff.
    countable, uncountable
25. relatively great altitude or distance from the bottom to the top
26. A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
    countable, uncountable
27. the topmost point; summit

Equivalents

Examples

“Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]”

“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”

“— What's your height? — 180 centimetres.”

“The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".”

“We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.”

“I'm afraid of heights.”

“At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.”

“The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong winds blowing over the valley.”

“She's at the height of her career.”

“[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]”

“During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as crooked as the gang leaders themselves.”

“If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.”

“In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.”

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