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high-water mark |
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high-water mark a. the level reached by sea water at high tide or by other stretches of water in flood b. the mark indicating this level high-water mark [¦hī ′wȯd·ər ‚mārk] (computer science) The maximum number of jobs that are in a queue awaiting execution by a large computer system during a specified period of observation. 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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Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going - singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. The place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there. For a day or two the place looked so like an overflowed Arkansas town, because of its currentless waters laving the very doorsteps of all the houses, and the cluster of boats made fast under the windows, or skimming in and out of the alleys and by-ways, that I could not get rid of the impression that there was nothing the matter here but a spring freshet, and that the river would fall in a few weeks and leave a dirty high-water mark on the houses, and the streets full of mud and rubbish. |
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