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Elevation of a mountain
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height
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Height Keech is the stage name of Baltimore rapper and podcaster Dan Keech (born September 22, 1981). He is best known as the founder and frontman for the group Height With Friends. Before forming Height With Friends, he released three solo albums and six ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The distance from the base of something to the top.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top [syn: tallness ] the highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hiehþu , Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "high" (see high ) + -itha , Germanic abstract noun suffix. Compare Old Norse hæð , Middle Dutch hoochte , Old High German hohida , Gothic hauhiþa ...
Usage examples of height.
The lower lip curved outward, making a platform that abutted at the height of perhaps a hundred feet upon a sinister-looking gorge below.
It was no wonder that he rose to such a height, as in Russia the nobility never lower themselves by accepting church dignities.
It felt better to wear out my frustrations by the use of my legs, and so I resolved to follow the capering street to the top if need be and see the Vincula and Acies Castle from that height, and then to show my badge of office to the guards at the fortifications there and walk along them to the Capulus and so cross the river by the lowest way.
Reckless and stupid enough to strike at a busy inn in the heart of a bustling city that was bound to be acrawl with wizards, at the bright height of day and in full sight of all, parading around the sky on a conjured nightwyrm.
His formidable host, when it was drawn out in order of battle, covered the banks of the river, the adjacent heights, and the whole extent of a plain of above twelve miles, which separated the two armies.
During the height of the fever, tincture of aconite maybe given and an alkaline sponge-bath administered with advantage.
I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon him.
If the Aerian reserves had been recalled, they had chosen other heights to grace with their weary presence.
She wanted to see Aerians sweeping the heights above, and Leontines prowling around the pillars that were placed beneath those heights, as if they held up not only ceiling but sky.
The rival aeroplane was now skimming above the water at a height of about a thousand feet.
Running to the window they saw the Mortlake aeroplane whiz by at a fair height.
They therefore represent a bay of the choir, of which the clerestory and triforium are removed, and the aisle roof is raised to the height of the roof of the choir itself.
Outside stood a tiny, wispy lady of late middle years, wearing a quilted sacque of plum-coloured satin which would have been the height of alamodality some thirty years ago.
Though the morning sun climbed the blue sky, it had yet to rise above the heights of Alcazar to shine down into the tall, narrow yard.
At nightfall the British were on the heights of Cabeca and Aldea Rubia, and so secured their former position at San Christoval.