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HEIGHTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A high place
Example:
he doesn't like heights
Synonyms:
heights; high
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("heights" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
Context examples:
Layer of seawater containing a high concentration of suspended sediment that may reach heights of several hundred meters above the ocean floor.
(Nepheloid layer, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
A bar chart representing a frequency distribution where the heights of the bars represent observed frequencies.
(Histogram, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cold War tests, which detonated explosives at heights from 16 to 250 miles above the surface, mimicked some of these natural effects.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
Asia's mountain glaciers flow from the cold heights of the world's tallest mountains down to warmer climate zones, where they melt much faster, feeding major rivers such as the Indus and Yangtze.
(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)
Trees such as the giant sequoia can only achieve their vast heights because of these secondary cell walls, which provide a rigid structure around the cells in their trunks.
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Examples of common phobias include fear of spiders, flying in an airplane, elevators, heights, enclosed rooms, crowded public places, and embarrassing oneself in front of other people.
(Phobia, NCI Dictionary)
When the ladies withdrew to the drawing-room after dinner, this poverty was particularly evident, for the gentlemen HAD supplied the discourse with some variety—the variety of politics, inclosing land, and breaking horses—but then it was all over; and one subject only engaged the ladies till coffee came in, which was the comparative heights of Harry Dashwood, and Lady Middleton's second son William, who were nearly of the same age.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This was not the map we found in Billy Bones's chest, but an accurate copy, complete in all things—names and heights and soundings—with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When seen edge-on, it is possible to get an overall view of how stars — both new patches of starbirth and older populations — are distributed throughout a galaxy, and the heights of the relatively flat disc and the star-loaded core become easier to measure.
(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)
