(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.
(n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.
(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.
(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.
(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
(n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(4) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(5) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(6) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(7) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
(8) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(9) Homeless children (n = 167) had lower height percentiles when compared with domiciled children (n = 167; P less than .001) and when compared with NCHS standards (P less than .001).
(10) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
(11) The mean villus height for each rat was calculated and compared by two-way ANOVA to determine the effects of time and treatment.
(12) The height of this plateau depended on the CS concentration.
(13) There was also a reduced crypt cell proliferation, a reduced villus height and a decreased ALP activity in the ileal mucosa.
(14) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(15) Weight, arm circumference and muscle area-for-height were calculated.
(16) Mean patient weight and height were 59.2 kg and 153.8 cm, respectively.
(17) This could distort the relation between height and forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) as age increases.
(18) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
(19) In pre-menopausal women no association has been found between increased height and weight as risk factors for breast cancer.
(20) An increase in height was also observed in the patients who received delayed zinc retardation.
Hight
Definition:
(n.) A variant of Height.
(imp.) of Hight
(p. p.) of Hight
(v. t. & i.) To be called or named.
(v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel.
(v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust.
(v. t. & i.) To promise.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of these and previous results it is concluded that the availability of NE in the MPO is an important factor in determining the hight of the preovulatory LH surge.
(2) Theophylline (5 mM)and dbcAMP (2mM) induced a 2=fold increase in glucagon release at low or hight glucose concentrations .
(3) There was, however, no correlation between the time of appearance of protection and that of appearance of antibodies nor between the hight of antibody titres and degree of protection.
(4) Seven of the 28 patients complained of difficulty with hight vision; six of these seven had morphologic lesions on ophthalmoscopic examination, confirmed by fluorescein angiography.
(5) However, the apples that were kepat at supracryoscopic temperature retained a hight phytoalexin activity.
(6) After 3 years the alveolar process had developed to almost normal vertical hight.
(7) In experiments on 105 white rats using histological, histochemical, and morphometric methods the state of the lungs following daily "rises" in a pressure chamber to the "hight" of 5000--9000 m at verious time intervals--from 1 day to 9 weeks was studied.
(8) In the control animals when compared to the normotensive rats of both sexes, the genetically hypertensive rats of both sexes show elevated aversion towards open space and hight (when the number of visits of centre and open arms is considered), and elevated total time of locomotor-exploratory activity; the hypertensive males show decrease and female increase in time spent and in number of head-dipping.
(9) One case of chronic hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia, with an adult coeliac disease, hight P.T.H.
(10) In the control animals, when compared to the normotensive rats of Wistar strain, the genetically hypertensive rats of both sexes show elevated aversion towards open space and hight in the elevated plus-maze, reduced time spent head dipping in holeboard.
(11) Because of the hight sensitivity of this method, the assay of duodenal samples can be made with minimal volumes (0.1 ml) allowing a direct extraction by organic solvents.
(12) Administration of hight doses of retinyl acetate into rats caused an increase in content of retinol in liver tissue and kidney and retinyl palmitate in liver tissue, kidney and blood.
(13) The incidence of anastomotic leak is hight as a post operative complication.
(14) It may also be applicable to cases of imperforate anus with a hight pouch.
(15) Now each of these calculated function terms is valid for the whole time intervals in which the body hight growth process performs.
(16) The lower limit of the hight of the inter-body spurs in case with myelopathy and spinal subarachnoid block was 3 mm.
(17) These anatomical and spatial advantage of the maxillary artery seemed to be favorable donor artery to the middle cerebral artery and have brought hight patency rate in our series of anastomosis than that of the other previous experimental extracranial-intracranial shunts.
(18) Compared with the Ca45-filter technique the electrometrically measuring device built up was beside the obvious advantages of a directly indicating method more fast, simple and hightly sensitive.
(19) In the second session statistically significant alleviation of aversion towards open space and hight was attained in both strains of rats, in both sexes and under the both doses of diazepam.
(20) Applied to 135 Acanthodactylus, from eight clusters of collecting sites, a multidimensional analysis of 11 characters, mainly of colouring and scale patterns, providing 35 mathematical variables, reveals a hight intrapopulational variability.