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high 1. Music (of sound) acute in pitch; having a high frequency 2. Geography (of latitudes) situated relatively far north or south from the equator 3. Informal being in a state of altered consciousness, characterized esp by euphoria and often induced by the use of alcohol, narcotics, etc. 4. (of a gear) providing a relatively great forward speed for a given engine speed 5. of or relating to the High Church 6. Cards a. having a relatively great value in a suit b. able to win a trick 7. Informal a state of altered consciousness, often induced by alcohol, narcotics, etc. 8. another word for anticyclone 9. short for high school 10. (esp in Oxford) the High Street 11. Electronics the voltage level in a logic circuit corresponding to logical one high [hī] (meteorology) An area of high pressure, referring to a maximum of atmospheric pressure in two dimensions (closed isobars) in the synoptic surface chart, or a maximum of height (closed contours) in the constant-pressure chart; since a high is, on the synoptic chart, always associated with anticyclonic circulation, the term is used interchangeably with anticyclone. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| (in other words our High Priest) came to inspect the State Prison and paid me his seventh annual visit, and when for the seventh time he put me the question, 'Was I any better? It was La of Opar, High Priestess of the Flaming God, and fifty of her horrid priests searching for the purloiner of the sacred sacrificial knife. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony--the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings--to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity. |
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