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high

If something is high, it is a long way up. If something is high, its top is a long way up. That is the highest mountain near here. If something is high, it is very good. It might be better or more important than other things. This can often means someone has more power. The Supreme Court is the highest court in America. Brian Boru was called the high king of Ireland. Meeting my girlfriend was the high point of my year. If someone is high, that person's mind is affected by drugs. John was high from marijuana last night.

high

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount a high temperature a high price the high point of his career high risks has high hopes the river is high he has a high opinion of himself (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high') a high mountain high ceilings high buildings a high forehead a high incline a foot high (= eminent) standing above others in quality or position people in high places the high priest eminent members of the community at a great altitude he climbed high on the ladder used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency a lofty level or position or degree summer temperatures reached an all-time high in or to a high position, amount, or degree prices have gone up far too high happy and excited and energetic in a rich manner he lives high far up toward the source he lives high up the river slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) (= heights) a high place they stood on high and observed the countryside he doesn't like heights a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics they took drugs to get a high on a state of sustained elation I'm on a permanent high these days an air mass of higher than normal pressure the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high (= high gear) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed (= highschool) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 he goes to the neighborhood highschool (= gamey) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

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Simple sentences

The building is seven stories high.
The price of gasoline is so high that we cannot buy a big car.
Prices are high.
We graduate from high school at eighteen.
A special tax is imposed on very high incomes.
He bettered the world record in the high jump.
They sold everything at extremely high prices.
Losses on both sides were extremely high.
Tom has a high opinion of Mary.
I had a crush on you when we were in high school.
There seems to be a large number of people in Japan with high blood pressure.
I learned that when I was in high school.
Her expectations are too high.
How high is Mount Everest?
Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.
This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.
Could you dial for me? The telephone is too high.
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
It's high time you had a haircut.
It's high time you got going.
How high can you jump?
Where do you attend high school?
Do you know how high the television tower is?
It is high time you started a new business.
Prices are high these days.
My sister married a high school teacher last June.
We looked for it high and low.
How high is Mont Blanc?

Movie subtitles

By student, do you mean a high-schooler?
Without any proper sewage system, medieval London stank to high heaven, whereas human excrement was routinely collected in Chinese cities and spread on outlying fields.
Once, when Zheng He had sailed the high seas, China had been able to regard distant Europeans with indifference, if not contempt.
Thousands of wannabe mandarins would be locked in these cells, just three-and-a-half feet deep, about the same width, and only five-and-a-half feet high.
The Ming system had created a kind of high-equiIibrium trap.
And lo, Moroni buried the golden plates high on a hill.
One such planet, Corot 7B, orbits so close to its star that surface temperatures reach as high as 1,600 degrees Celsius.
The key question is; how far down does the water persist beneath the surface and if you go far enough, is the pressure and temperature high enough that the water would be liquid, not in the form of ice?
With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.
Our ultra-high frequency and microwave radio signals have been expanding into space at the speed of light.
Ogdee is my old friend from high school.
Honestly, Lord Choi is charging the interest for Bang Nap too high!
I have a high expectation for the girl this time..
I'm more of a high wire myself.
Can you guys believe that this is our last semester in high school?
It's called Dynamic Ultra. They do high-tech research.
He's been on staff at his current high school for the last 12 years, diligent and had a great work ethic.
A multimillionaire from Texas, and the other a high school teacher from New Mexico.
All this high-speed running around you're doing is futile. Give it up.
What it means is that there's information which is beyond even our grasp, reaching as high as clearance level eight.
Unknown at this time, sir, but it's circling around at high speed.
Usually this device would be used to intercept other missiles at high altitude.
Your Accelerator isn't merely an ability that allows you to move around at a high velocity.
They were moving at significantly high speed. But there seems to have been some sort of explosion near 52nd Street.
He was acting up again 'cause his mom keeps packing these fruit roll-ups, and they give him this satanic sugar high, you know.
The ancient Egyptians believed that high mountains surrounded land and water on all sides.
The sky was made of steel and supported by strong pillars that stood on the high mountains.
We get someone on the outside, usually a junior high kid.
In high school, our decision-making skills are not fully developed.
Together with the Officers from the North, I have already received the training 5 months ago and received a high evaluation.
Their intelligence information level is really high. No, only a few people knew about that place.
He won't call too high of a price, will he?
When we met, I was the water boy for my high school basketball team, and I got stuffed in a locker after practice.
We knew if we could make it through high school together, we could make it through anything.
Fine, maybe I'll just put Channy bear on a high shelf in case of a. bear-mergency.
Oh, so, Dustin wore a 1930s high-waisted vintage tux that had a tear in it that he patched over with a piece of gabardine from his father's wedding suit, so.
I imagine the stud fees of a champion must be quite high.
I bet they never had any of the breeds they have - at these high class dog shows.

News and current affairs

In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
Indeed, another critical fundamental factor that has been sustaining high gold prices might prove far more ephemeral than globalization.
If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.
Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small amounts of land.
One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.
Drug companies argue that high prices are necessary to fund research and development.
A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
Because these activities' costs are so high and their benefits so low, stopping them would be easy.
Prior to the crisis, many suspected that the mix of aggregate demand that was supporting high growth was unsustainable, though the problem perhaps seemed too hypothetical to compel collective action.
The response - massive spending cuts - ensures that unacceptably high levels of unemployment (a vast waste of resources and an oversupply of suffering) will continue, possibly for years.
It is high time to consider novel approaches.
After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
Despite a recovery in asset prices in many countries and the deceleration of negative growth, unemployment is high and rising.

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