(superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
(superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection
(superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.
(superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.
(superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.
(superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.
(superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.
(superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
(superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.
(superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, 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) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.
(superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
(superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.
(superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.
(adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.
(n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
(n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low.
(n.) The highest card dealt or drawn.
(v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(2) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(7) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(8) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(10) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(12) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(13) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(14) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(15) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(16) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(17) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(18) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(19) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(20) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
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.