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high

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

high

I.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a diet high/rich in sth (=which contains a lot of something)

▪ In the West many people eat a diet high in fat and salt.

a High Court (=an important court, with more power than an ordinary court)

▪ Their convictions were upheld in the High Court.

a high gear (=third, fourth, or fifth gear)

▪ Put the car into a higher gear.

a high ideal (also a lofty idealformal)

▪ Most politicians start out with high ideals.

a high kick (=when someone raises their foot high into the air)

▪ The dance routine was full of high kicks.

a high number

▪ There seems to be no reason for the high number of suicides.

a high point

▪ Winning the World Championship was the high point of my career.

a high price

▪ Smokers often pay a high price in terms of their health.

a high priority (=very important)

▪ Right now, the environment is a high priority.

a high schoolAmerican English (= a school for students aged 14 to 18)

a high school/elementary school student American English

▪ Her son is a high school student.

a high street bank (=one of the ordinary banks that most people use)

▪ There's a lot of competition between the major high street banks.

a high threshold

▪ Professional football players have a pretty high pain threshold.

a high voice (=near the top of the range of sounds)

▪ They used to repeat her words in silly high voices.

a higher/postgraduate degree (=one that you take after a first degree)

▪ He was offered a grant for a postgraduate degree.

a high/large dose

▪ High doses of the drug can have bad side effects.

a high/large income

▪ He has a relatively high income.

a high/low bid

▪ There were several high bids for the painting.

a high/low intake

▪ a high intake of carbohydrates

a high/low/slight fever

▪ The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever.

a record high/low

▪ The stock market reached a record high on August 21.

a strong/high/close correlation

▪ They found evidence of a high correlation between drinking and violence.

A-level/high school etc examinations

▪ The school usually achieves good results in GCSE examinations.

abnormally high

▪ an abnormally high pulse rate

absurdly low/high

▪ Prices seem absurdly low to Western tourists.

acute/deep/high anxiety

▪ The patient's panic attacks are caused by acute anxiety.

ambitious/high

▪ The targets they have set themselves are hugely ambitious.

an all-time high/low

▪ The price of wheat had reached an all-time low.

at high/great speed

▪ The train was travelling at high speed.

at high/low etc magnification

▪ When viewed at high magnification it is clear that the crystals are quite different.

▪ greater levels of magnification

be high on drugs (=be experiencing the effects of a drug)

▪ He committed the crime while he was high on drugs.

be high on the agenda

▪ New measures to combat terrorism are high on the agenda.

be high/low in calories (=contain a lot of/few calories)

▪ Sweets and chocolates are very high in calories.

be perched (high) on a cliff (=be situated on a cliff)

▪ An 11th century castle is perched high on the cliff.

big/high

▪ They both need to work full-time because their mortage is so big.

command a high fee/wage/price etc

▪ Which graduates command the highest salaries?

federal judge/high court judge etc (=a judge in a particular court)

feelings are running high (=people have strong feelings, especially of anger)

▪ It was the last game of the season, and feelings were running high.

fetch a good/high etc priceBritish English, bring a good, high etc price American English (= be sold for a particular amount of money)

▪ I’m sure the painting would fetch a good price in London.

figures high

▪ Reform now figures high on the agenda.

further/higher education (=at a college or university)

▪ I did a carpentry course at the further education college.

further/higher up a scale

▪ Peasants managed their land as skilfully as some people higher up the social scale.

good/high

▪ I was impressed that the quality of their work was so high.

great/big/high

▪ The rewards for those who invested at the right time are high.

▪ Some athletes took drugs because the rewards were great and they thought they could get away with it.

has...high profile

▪ The star has a high profile in Britain.

have a high regard for sb/sth

▪ I had the highest regard for him.

have high/low status (also enjoy high/low status)

▪ Here, old people are respected and have high social status.

high above

▪ The great bird hovered high above our heads.

high altar (=the main altar in a church)

▪ a crucifix above the high altar

high beams

high calibre

▪ The school attracts a high calibre of student.

high capacity (=able to hold a lot of things or people)

▪ There was demand for a high capacity public transport system.

high cheekbones

▪ She had high cheekbones and green eyes.

High Church

high comedy (=intelligent and with very funny conversations and situations)

▪ The director wanted actors who could play high comedy.

high command

▪ the German High Command

high commission

High Court

high definition/HD television

▪ high definition television channels

high earnings

▪ Professional people pay more tax, because of their higher earnings.

high efficiency (=used about machines)

▪ The diesel engine offers high efficiency and low fuel consumption.

high explosive

high fidelity

high finance (=financial activities involving very large amounts of money)

▪ the world of high finance

high five

high heels

high jinks

▪ youthful high jinks

high jump

High Mass

high praise (=a lot of praise)

▪ The film won high praise from critics and audiences alike.

high priest

▪ the high priest of modern jazz

high priestess

high principles (=strong beliefs about right and wrong)

▪ Dunn's high principles and pleasant manner won him the real affection of his colleagues.

high productivity

▪ high productivity levels in manufacturing

high regard

▪ The players have a very high regard for their manager.

high relief

high road

▪ Daley has taken the high road in his campaign.

high roller

high school exams

▪ Greg got good grades in all of his high school exams.

high school

▪ We were friends in high school.

high school/college diploma

high seas

high season

high status

▪ They were men of high status and great influence.

high street banks/shops/stores etc

high street

▪ Camden High Street

high summer (=the middle of summer)

▪ In high summer, food was plentiful.

high table

high tea

high technology

high tension

▪ There was a moment of high tension as the firemen entered the burning building.

high tide

▪ At high tide the island is completely cut off.

high tide

▪ High tide is at seven in the morning.

high treason

high treason (=treason of the worst kind)

▪ The defendant was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death.

high turnover

▪ Low pay accounts for the high turnover.

high velocity

▪ a high velocity bullet

high visibility

▪ high visibility clothing

high water mark

▪ the high water mark of Herrera’s presidency

high water

high winds (=strong wind)

▪ High winds are making driving conditions difficult.

high wire

high

▪ His previous highest approval rating was 58 percent.

high

▪ Rates of adult illiteracy are still too high.

high (=a lot of people want something)

▪ Demand for housing is higher than ever.

high

▪ This method of treatment has a high probability of success.

high

▪ House prices in the UK are very high.

high

▪ She got high grades in all her science subjects.

high

▪ Inflation remained high throughout this period.

high (=expecting that someone or something will be successful)

▪ Like most parents, we have high expectations for our children.

high

▪ The level of salt in his diet was too high.

high

▪ These mountains are much higher than any in Europe.

high

▪ You ought to switch to an account that pays a higher rate of interest.

high

▪ Rents in the city centre are very high.

high

▪ Professional sport involves a relatively high risk of injury.

high

▪ Higher taxes will slow down consumer spending.

high

▪ The factory workers are demanding higher wages.

high

▪ You should insure any goods of high value.

high

▪ They live in an area where unemployment is high.

high

▪ At high temperatures water is not able to hold as much oxygen.

higher civilizations (=more advanced ones)

▪ There could be higher civilizations on other planets.

higher education

higher mathematics

higher/better

▪ Workers demanded higher pay.

higher/larger/less etc than normal

▪ The journey took longer than normal.

higher/superior status

▪ Landowners had superior status.

highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most)

▪ The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder .

high/good

▪ Morale among the staff was high.

high/good

▪ She moved to a job with a higher salary.

high/good (=used when saying that someone is happy and excited)

▪ The players were all in high spirits.

high/good

▪ The standard of their work was generally very high.

high/large

▪ A high percentage of our students pass the exam.

high/large/big

▪ The school fees are extremely high.

high/low altitudes

▪ At high altitudes it is difficult to get enough oxygen.

high/low dosage

high/low etc incidence

▪ Smokers had the highest incidence of colds.

high/low frequency

▪ Dolphins produce a high frequency sound.

high/low in fat

▪ This cheese is relatively low in fat.

high/low intelligence

▪ John showed high intelligence from an early age.

(high/low) metabolic rate

▪ Fish normally have a high metabolic rate.

▪ Exercise can increase your metabolic rate.

high/low standard of living

▪ a nation with a high standard of living

high/low throughput

▪ a large store with a high throughput of goods

high/low turnout

▪ the low turn-out of 54 percent in the March elections

high/low voltage

high/low

▪ The figures are worryingly high.

high/low

▪ the high cost of fuel

high/low

▪ People should stop using expensive cars with a high petrol consumption.

high/low

▪ The cliffs here are the highest in Britain.

high/low/average ability

▪ a group of low ability pupils

▪ Many of these students are of above average ability.

▪ Children of high ability demand more absorbing tasks.

high/low/average earner

▪ Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner.

high/low/middle rank

▪ Her father had been an army officer of fairly high rank.

highs and lows (of sth) (=good times and bad times)

▪ the highs and lows of an actor’s life

high/top/low/middle-ranking

▪ a top-ranking tennis player

hit a peak/an all-time high etc

▪ Earnings hit a peak in the early 1980s.

hold sb in high/great esteem

▪ The critics held him in high esteem as an actor.

hold sb/sth in high regard

▪ Doctors are held in high regard by society.

in the low/mid/high eighties

▪ The temperature is expected to remain in the low eighties.

in the low/mid/high fifties

▪ sunny, with temperatures in the mid fifties

in the low/mid/high forties

▪ The temperature was up in the high forties.

in the low/mid/high nineties

▪ Temperatures were still in the high nineties.

in the low/mid/high seventies

▪ sunny, with temperatures in the mid seventies

in the low/mid/high sixties

▪ a fine spring day, with the temperatures in the low sixties

in the low/mid/high thirties

▪ a hot day, with temperatures in the low thirties

in the low/mid/high twenties

▪ a warm day, with temperatures in the low twenties

junior high school

little/lower/high/greater etc likelihood

▪ There was very little likelihood of her getting the job.

longer/higher/worse etc than usual

▪ It is taking longer than usual for orders to reach our customers.

low/high cloud

▪ The weather was overcast, with heavy low clouds.

mark a high/low/turning etc point (=be or happen at a particular time in the development of something)

▪ The day of the accident marked a turning point in Kenny’s life.

move on to higher/better things (=get a better job or social position – used humorously)

▪ Jeremy’s leaving the company to move on to higher things.

of good/high/international etc repute

▪ a man of high repute

of high/low standing

▪ a lawyer of high standing

of high/the right etc calibre

▪ The paintings were of the highest caliber.

passions run high (=people are very excited, angry, or upset)

▪ The judge's decision is expected today and passions are running high.

piled high (=filled with a lot of boxes)

▪ The room was piled high with boxes .

pitch sth at a high level/the right level etc

▪ The projects were pitched at a number of different levels.

pitch sth high/low etc

▪ Her voice is pitched a little too high.

place/put a high value on sth

▪ Our society places a high value on education.

playing for high stakes

▪ We’re playing for high stakes here.

polish/shine to a high gloss

▪ The silverware had been polished to a high gloss.

pollen count...high

▪ The pollen count was high yesterday.

push sth higher/lower

▪ New technology has pushed the cost of health care even higher.

rank high/low

▪ He ranked high among the pioneers of 20th century chemical technology.

sb’s charges are high/low (=you have to pay a lot/a little)

▪ His charges are too high.

search high and low (=search everywhere)

▪ We searched high and low for him, but couldn’t find him.

senior high school

slightly higher/lower/better/larger etc

▪ January’s sales were slightly better than average.

somewhat larger/higher/newer etc

▪ The price is somewhat higher than I expected.

stands...high

▪ The trophy stands five feet high.

stank to high heaven (=stank very much)

▪ The toilets stank to high heaven.

swollen/high (=containing more water than usual)

▪ After the rains, the river was swollen.

▪ The river was high and running quite swiftly.

tax sth at 10%/a higher rate etc

▪ They may be taxed at a higher rate.

tension is/remains high

▪ After the election, political tension remains high.

the biggest/highest etc on record

▪ Last summer was one of the hottest on record.

the high street British English (= the main street with shops)

▪ I bought this coat at a shop on the high street.

the highest award

▪ The Victoria Cross is Britain’s highest military award.

the highest compliment (=the best thing you can say)

▪ The highest compliment you can pay an actor is to say they don’t look as if they are acting.

the highest peak

▪ Mount McKinley is Alaska’s highest peak.

the high/low frequency (of sth)

▪ the higher frequency of diabetes in older people

the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (=for particular ages at school)

the stakes are high

▪ Climbing is a dangerous sport and the stakes are high.

the sun is high/low in the sky

▪ They walked until the sun was low in the sky.

top/leading/highest scorer

▪ He was Palace’s top scorer.

twice as high/big/large etc (as sth)

▪ Interest rates are twice as high as those of our competitors.

ultimate/highest/supreme etc accolade

▪ She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business.

upper/higher/lower echelons

▪ the upper echelons of government

▪ Their clients are drawn from the highest echelons of society.

yet more/bigger/higher etc

▪ He got a call from the factory, telling of yet more problems.

▪ Inflation had risen to a yet higher level.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

altitude

▪ Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes, in semi-arid areas, and in rocky areas as well as in forests.

▪ The satellite was hurled to a much higher altitude with the mass of tether trailing beneath.

▪ The flight began in July but was delayed for two weeks until early August following initial problems with take-off at high altitudes.

▪ Ma says his runners do well because they train at high altitude and are given special herbal tonics to help them recover.

▪ Extreme cases on high altitude expeditions have ended up with sleeping bags frozen solid!

▪ Asexual species tend to be small and live at high latitudes and high altitudes, in fresh water or disturbed ground.

▪ The night-time replenishment of ozone is presumably caused by transport of ozone-rich air from higher altitudes.

▪ Potatoes could get by with only a touch of sunshine or warmth, and they thrived at high altitudes.

concentration

▪ Do not exceed the stated dose in the belief that higher concentrations will be more effective.

▪ There was concern that such a high concentration would be too difficult to digest or lead to side effects.

▪ Thus cells without mtDNA can undergo apoptosis when either deprived of survival factors or exposed to high concentrations of staurosporine.

▪ The chemical, once used as an anesthetic, can be toxic if breathed in high concentrations.

▪ There is evidence that ascorbic acid is secreted in high concentrations into the normal stomach.

▪ First, the shipyard workers were ex-posed to the deadly blue and brown varieties of asbestos, and in extraordinarily high concentrations.

▪ Elite Home Prices Recent average sale prices in selected neighborhoods with high concentrations of top-ranked professionals and executives.

cost

▪ An overdraft offered more flexibility but higher cost.

▪ The high cost for magazines is only the beginning.

▪ At the same time, a combination of high costs and cutthroat pricing is driving out manufacturers of computing and communications hardware.

▪ It is not enough to increase job options for the unemployed if high costs prevent them from securing affordable decent housing.

▪ Can a society assume the high cost of paying with injustice the work of its physicians?

▪ Each firm is a low cost shipper to its own market, a high cost shipper to the other market.

▪ These children, problems from birth, represented a high cost to society in every dimension.

court

▪ It was the first time the state's highest court had debated the point and was widely welcomed by accountants.

▪ The state high court was mindful that many employers might not know what information should or should not be disclosed.

▪ In the early days of the Bonn Republic members of the higher courts freely invoked a revived Natural Law.

▪ An questions and problems were brought to him and his opinions often had the authority of laws and of high court verdicts.

▪ Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January.

▪ The high court should issue a decision by July.

▪ There are no ethnic minority judges in the high court or above.

▪ The high court did not release information about which justices were on either side of the vote.

degree

▪ The layout below allows the owner to live in a high degree of comfort.

▪ But, second, in the vast majority of markets, efficient production can be attained with a high degree of competition.

▪ Deaf postgraduates, who are few and far between, have little chance of taking a higher degree.

▪ The immediacy of these visionary experiences endows them with a high degree of intensity, but also renders them fleeting and transient.

▪ His lean bony sun-tanned face was relaxed, concealing his high degree of alertness.

▪ A high degree of safety implies that there is a negligible risk of default of the securities purchased.

▪ The risk involved in the defendants' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them.

▪ This has been developed to a high degree in the so called Fluidized Bed Combustion method.

dose

▪ Subjects may vary in their response to oestrogens and some may need a higher dose.

▪ Some side effects of high doses include acne, oily skin and insomnia.

▪ Aminoglycosides are often given in insufficiently high doses.

▪ Drowsiness, impaired cognitive function, and impotence may be a problem with higher doses.

▪ So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.

▪ Withdrawal symptoms appear to be more severe following withdrawal from high doses or from short-acting benzodiazepines.

▪ Animal experiments suggest that a high dose is required, and the fact that there is no person-to-person spread supports this view.

▪ The very high doses used in the study were attacked.

frequency

▪ This gives the tape more headroom for high frequencies.

▪ The ribbon moves magnetically, reproducing the higher frequencies normally handled by a tweeter in a conventional speaker.

▪ For example, the strong bonds allow the atoms in diamonds to vibrate at very high frequencies.

▪ Sometimes it shows up as a lot more wiggles in the higher frequency range, up around 25 to 70 Hertz.

▪ Since these figures represent averages over all participants, some participants will have considerably higher frequencies than this.

▪ This high frequency of participation across a large number of sports is an important characteristic of sports participation.

▪ On Tobago, the fruits of the tree species had significantly more thickened layers and higher frequencies of multiple seeds and so on.

▪ However, they all show very high frequencies of non-tree pollen, mainly Ericaceae and Gramineae.

grade

▪ It can be argued that the finding of high grade dysplasia without cancer should be considered to be a success of surveillance.

▪ Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.

▪ In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality.

▪ Perry and Rubin scored the highest grades for overall performance.

▪ Moreover, in contrast with a recent report, no cases of conversion to a high grade lymphoma were observed.

▪ More than 200 people were arrested in five countries and £122 million worth of high grade cocaine seized in swoops around the world.

▪ However we want mandatory standards and specifications introduced to ensure appropriate waste materials are used where available, rather than higher grade primaries.

▪ The severe disruption to the samian industry in Central Gaul caused an immediate diminution in high grade pottery production.

ground

▪ One appeared to be an enemy headquarters, the other an area of high ground.

▪ The hotel is on high ground and never was in danger of flooding.

▪ But such a brash grasp for the moral high ground called for an answer.

▪ They were taking the high ground.

▪ It depends who has the high ground.

▪ Houston also seized the mental high ground for a possible playoff matchup, which could occur as early as the first round.

▪ Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate, their crimes political.

▪ Stick to the moral high ground by blaming the current system for not saving as many lives as it might.

heel

▪ Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!

▪ Have yourself dropped off in your high heels in front of the restaurant.

▪ As she tried to pick her way over frozen puddles, she regretted her decision to wear high heels instead of boots.

▪ Though why had she gotten high heels?

▪ With her heels, with her high heels!

▪ Need high heels, a hamburger and a handkerchief?

▪ Under our summer dresses we wore full petticoats with hoops and white high heels.

▪ She was all dolled up, too, in a navy-blue dress and high heels.

hope

▪ There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.

▪ With high hopes, Michael checks into Freedom Ranch, a private drug-treatment center in Campo.

▪ Many start off with high hopes but there is a lot of hurt.

▪ We had high hopes for television in those early days.

▪ There are high hopes for a powerful and radical approach to the current problems encountered in matters of civil procedure.

▪ Of course, Nixon had high hopes for his policy when he started out.

▪ His seat is safe but high hopes of Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power in a new administration have already faded.

▪ I have high hopes for you.

incidence

▪ Young people are unlikely to be affected by statistics showing the high incidence of disease and early death among smokers.

▪ Even more alarming is the higher incidence of type 2 diabetes among young people.

▪ Endoscopy showed that the miners had a higher incidence of gastritis than the men from the general population.

▪ Moreover, the high number of births in a family is offset by the high incidence of infant mortality.

▪ There is a higher incidence of clients refusing services.

▪ All these conditions make for a higher incidence of illness among working-class than middle-class babies.

▪ Several workers have reported disappointing results in a high incidence of gastrointestinal side effects.

income

▪ Having a higher income, it saved more.

▪ It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.

▪ It now also includes politically daring proposals to increase premiums for the very highest income beneficiaries and raise the Medicare eligibility age.

▪ Doctors are rewarded with high income and social status.

▪ The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes.

▪ They are also planning to raise tax rates on higher incomes.

▪ The idea of higher taxes for higher incomes flopped with the rich.

inflation

▪ For a high inflation country, the ability occasionally to devalue its currency is important and its exercise can yield benefits.

▪ A country with a high inflation rate relative to competitors will generally experience a depreciation in the future external value of its currency.

▪ A high inflation figure would work against an interest rate cut, Rosenberg said.

▪ Sometimes high inflation is associated with rapid economic growth and structural changes in an economy.

▪ Ancient economies were routinely ravaged by high inflation, which almost always shakes the political structure until its leaders tumble down.

▪ Any attempt to reduce unemployment below this rate was sure to fail, according to monetarists, and would bring about higher inflation.

▪ Faster growth usually generates higher inflation, which then puts the Fed on war footing, driving interest rates up.

interest

▪ I thought we had to have excessively high interest rates in order to keep sterling where it is.

▪ Such conditions generally occur during periods of very high interest rates.

▪ The hon. Gentleman referred to the problem of high interest rates.

▪ With higher interest rates, people have an incentive to keep money in the bank, not in their pockets.

▪ Frankfurt dropped by 3.3%, thanks to fears of higher interest rates and a downturn in the bond market.

▪ People hold domestic deposits despite the higher interest rate on offshore deposits because they associate greater political risk with offshore deposits.

▪ Mr. Nicholas Winterton Does my hon. Friend accept that high interest rates are a disincentive to investment?

▪ Bond buyers will demand higher interest payments to offset the fear of rising inflation.

level

▪ According to its radioactive content, it is designated by the industry as either low, intermediate or high level.

▪ Now they own an international distribution company and have reached the highest levels of achievement in our business.

▪ Justice demands that a cheat at that high level be punished.

▪ The papers rated him as one of the hot young stars; there was talk about a future at higher levels.

▪ However, new cases continued to be reported at high levels.

▪ There is a high level of consensus among historians of the eighteenth-century Poor Law that relief in general was neither ungenerous nor ineffective.

▪ Finally when molecular motion increases to a sufficiently high level, all the chains behave like weak springs the whole time.

▪ It must also provide a high level of water vapour resistance.

number

▪ The goals scored over four weeks are totalled and the highest number of goals wins a prize of £50.

▪ The situation is similar for higher numbers of fermions.

▪ I suspect however that you have misquoted the number as the highest number I know is 57435.

▪ They are dying in very high numbers.

▪ Brownell and Rodin urged that, given the high numbers of people dieting, weight cycling should be a research priority.

▪ Speyside had by far the highest number of farmers requesting the courses themselves - three out of every four.

▪ This blatant tear-jerker features the highest number of sick and dying characters for your movie dollar.

order

▪ In some instances the imperatives of lower order needs may preclude the possibility of following higher order needs. 4.

▪ But with them he could be violent, abusive, duplicitous, a Lothario of the highest order.

▪ A satanic symphony of the highest order.

▪ I thought this constituted revenge of a fairly high order, thought it all out in advance.

▪ Satisfaction of higher order needs may well change the perception as to what constitutes satisfaction of lower order needs. 7.

▪ This was drama of the highest order.

▪ The reflected signal is studied as a function of frequency and the resonant frequency, together with higher orders, is then measured.

▪ Both were gentlemen of the highest order and totally selfless when it came to their colleagues.

percentage

▪ The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default.

▪ Brown and Yale had the highest percentage, 5. 8.

▪ Institutional investors complained of high percentage fees levied on transactions. 4.

▪ In 1992, adults asked a higher percentage of teens to volunteer than in 1996.

▪ Their importance is expected to increase as higher percentages of those approaching retirement age are members of occupational pension schemes.

▪ Taken by region, the highest percentage to reject any further meaning in the massacre was in Quebec: sixty-five percent.

▪ This would represent the highest percentage cut of any area, and the biggest savings per position, Sheth says.

performance

▪ The Body Shop went public in 1984 and the company's shares have consistently dazzled City analysts with their high performance.

▪ Quantitation usually requires gas or high performance liquid chromatography or immunoassay.

▪ With a high performance car a greater depth is required.

▪ This outlook makes the prospect of high performance seem unduly remote, a far-off destination the organization can only hope to reach.

▪ Auspex says it will upgrade the box to higher performance Sparc Mbus modules over time.

▪ In this atmosphere of fear, suspicion, and contracted horizons, long-term high performance is unlikely to be realized.

▪ Despite the apparent apparent emphasis on high performance, police hope the show will slow drivers down.

▪ Brian Tighe discusses polymers in ophthalmology and Peter Marquis describes the application of high performance ceramics in bone and joint replacements.

point

▪ At Mount Olympus, the highest point of the massif, mantle rock is visible.

▪ As the pedal is pressed downward from its highest point, it also moves forward.

▪ Christmas and New Year have long been the high point for visitor and Madeiran alike.

▪ The detente coincided with the magnificent spring offensive possiblY the military high point of the national liberation struggle.

▪ Guerrilla forces were considered to have reached their highest point numerically in September 1949 when approximately 3,000 to 3,200 were operating.

▪ We are now reaching the high point of the truly happy life.

▪ Here there was confusion because we wanted to climb the highest point in the Lemon Mountains.

▪ The highest point is the one closest to the top of the map.

pressure

▪ The droppings are burnt to provide sufficient heat to power high pressure steam boilers.

▪ The air in the room, which had higher pressure, pushed down on the water in the glass.

▪ The equation of state of molecular hydrogen at high pressures and temperatures is particularly important and yet it is poorly known.

▪ Each incident building high pressure on child.

▪ It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime.

▪ The higher pressure under the paper lifts it up.

▪ There they breathe in pure oxygen at high pressure.

▪ Bring to high pressure and cook 5 minutes.

price

▪ The idea is to reward young artists who would rarely command their highest price on the first sale.

▪ For the consumer, the shrunken harvest means shorter supplies and higher prices at the supermarket.

▪ He reckons it will disappear by the end of 1993, so increased demand will then spill over into higher prices.

▪ Virtually all empty dwellings were now sold with vacant possession, at extremely high prices.

▪ More of a particular resource will be demanded at a low price than at a high price.

▪ The system is financed by higher prices paid for goods bearing the green dot symbol.

▪ That and the high price of oil have rekindled inflation and widened the government's budget deficit.

priority

▪ Children's activities are also a high priority, with art workshops and dance courses taking place on a regular basis.

▪ At its workshop, the council ranks the items, from highest priority to lowest.

▪ That is, the permanent reduction of inflation is accorded a higher priority than the size of revenues associated with monetary creation.

▪ But villagers are still concerned about burglaries, where country homes were once left unlocked security is now a high priority.

▪ Items can be high priority but are uninteresting, time consuming or difficult to resolve.

▪ The quality and quantity of research in the School of Arts, continues to be a high priority.

▪ The highest priority is the publication of a suite of up-to-date comprehensive guidebooks and map leaflets for the four gardens.

▪ Subsequent use of the theses was unsupervised, and it appeared that enforcement of the regulations was not a high priority.

profile

▪ He's young, supremely talented and an integral part of a successful, high profile side.

▪ Luria and Nordin have a high profile in the arts community.

▪ With his group the Daintees, he was a high profile act with a major record company until quite recently.

▪ The Central Freeway campaign represents a broader issue with a higher profile.

▪ H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.

▪ Hospital buildings in particular take a high profile role in the history of Wimpey Alawi.

proportion

▪ A higher proportion of cases result in acquittal as the ages of the victims rises.

▪ The highest proportion of buyers who are married is 83. 5 percent in Dallas.

▪ A higher proportion of patients with diabetes in rural areas had advanced retinopathy identified by the screening unit compared with urban patients.

▪ Survey participants tended to reflect a higher proportion of builders active in the move-up, single-family-housing market.

▪ Administrative changes during the late nineteenth century should have resulted in a higher proportion of cases being reported.

▪ These averages are dictated largely by the very high proportion of volunteers that operate at club level.

▪ A high proportion of us die not at home, but in hospitals, clinics and special institutions for the terminally ill.

▪ Income tax is a progressive tax because higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax than lower earners.

quality

▪ These are good, high quality reserves.

▪ Pommery wines are well balanced and of high quality.

▪ Products such as highly-priced porcelain will be subject to far higher quality controls than run-of-the-mill household earthenware.

▪ Only hair of the highest quality is used which is bonded to small sections of your hair.

▪ One of the great pleasures of the exhibition is to see so many works of high quality brought into close proximity.

▪ The complex, consisting of 37 houses each accommodating five students, provides high quality accommodation for 185 postgraduate students.

▪ Rag paper high quality stationery made from cotton rags.

rate

▪ Their ideas grew out of research carried out in the electronics industry where companies face high rates of technological change.

▪ It is only the amount of relief granted that changes, with higher rate taxpayers now treated identically to everyone else.

▪ Because now the finger was pointed at managers: everyone knew if their office had a high rate.

▪ As with higher rate taxpayers, you will receive a tax demand for the amount owing.

▪ The higher rate includes the privilege of reserving screening carrels in advance.

▪ Why were they dropping out at a higher rate than any other ethnic or racial group?

resolution

▪ Low resolution displays of 25-30 lines are easier to read than high resolution displays of 60 lines.

▪ And if we switch to really high resolution, the icon is only 3 / 10 of an inch wide.

▪ I will have another go, at higher resolution.

▪ Many companies used to eliminate important features such as high resolution graphics or soundboard support.

▪ In Web art galleries especially, such images often have links to another with higher resolution.

▪ Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.

▪ As I have already indicated in the main text of this article, there are real users of high resolution page printers.

risk

▪ People with a cellular phone in the car run a 34 percent higher risk of having an accident, researchers say.

▪ Conclusions - Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality.

▪ They reported a 60 % higher risk linked to maternal alcohol consumption.

▪ For high risk junctions increasing exemplar risk is associated with an increase in the amount of information described.

▪ Berns said Davis had been downgraded from high risk to low risk on Oct. 15, 1993&038;.

▪ He was a high risk at one time.

▪ The study showed that teen-aged boys are at highest risk from overall injury-caused deaths, followed by toddlers ages 1-4.

school

▪ But he noted in interviews that drawings he submitted to his high school yearbook were rejected.

▪ A separate group of specialists may speak of high school problems.

▪ In 1994-95, she guided the boys' freshman team at her high school in Lake Oswego, Ore.

▪ I noticed a caption in my local newspaper the other day, identifying a group of high school cheerleaders.

▪ Take the case of Christina, who attends eleventh grade at a suburban high school in Fairfax County, Virginia.

▪ I had chemistry and biology in high school.

▪ Church league to junior high school to high school.

▪ Raise college admissions standards so that young people have an incentive to work harder and achieve more in high school.

speed

▪ When approached by Central news Mrs Gee drove off at high speed.

▪ When you connect at a higher speed, more can go wrong.

▪ Only a fool would re-enact the drink-fuelled high speed car journey that killed Princess Diana.

▪ Gradually add remaining 1 cup sugar, beating at high speed until lightened in color and texture, 3 to 5 minutes.

▪ Given a fair blow much higher speeds must be just as easy.

▪ These incorporate a very long run which promises high speed.

▪ If at a higher speed then reduce to the required figure before commencing descent. 2.

▪ A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.

standard

▪ Greville at Farnham Surrey, are to the highest standard.

▪ Mrs Miller had high standards of dress and manners.

▪ The House can accommodate up to 22 persons and offers a very high standard of comfort.

▪ The 6 million people of Hong Kong have an obvious stake in maintaining their high standard of living.

▪ There were lots of entries and all of a very high standard.

▪ Problem is, the current system resists higher standards, whether in student performance or teacher competency.

▪ But none is perhaps very democratic, if any high standard of democracy is applied.

▪ The managers strove to build a culture of high standards, supportiveness, and openness.

status

▪ Such legitimation could not be provided by other than a high status firm.

▪ However, historically the highest status universities have resisted community service on ideological grounds; it threatened academic freedom.

▪ Competition for places in high status universities is so enormous that after-school attendance at expensive private crammer schools is virtually compulsory.

▪ They have higher status in the family.

▪ In Bristol, often the pressure is to go for high status careers.

▪ The language of rights, legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status.

▪ It doesn't matter if the woman is older, of higher status or a total stranger.

▪ Which aspects of black or female cultures are or could be incorporated into high status knowledge?

street

▪ With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.

▪ We regard the Warwick campus as a high street.

▪ Last Christmas, despite the recession in the high street, we spent over £350 million on both biscuits and chocolates.

▪ Even the lower rate makes the offerings from other high street banks look miserly.

▪ This is a shareware version of a popular commercial game sold through high street stores and includes 20 missions.

▪ They compete for the savings of the general public through a network of high street branches.

▪ Almost every high street in Britain has some glimmer of character which can be brought out sensitively rather than needlessly brutalized.

▪ No.4 Troop followed Captain Algy Forrester as he charged on down the high street.

tax

▪ As we've already seen, the very high tax rates under the Labour Government helped to kill enterprise.

▪ They have blamed high taxes for the growth of a black market in cigarettes.

▪ The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers.

▪ Some Democrats say it would require a relatively high tax rate near 20 percent to produce sufficient revenue.

▪ A notorious drinker and womaniser, he flogged his workers and extorted high taxes.

▪ Meanwhile, young homeowners are two-income families struggling to cover day care expenses and health care insurance while paying high tax bills.

▪ If the right hon. Gentleman is genuinely concerned about recovery, what does he think that higher taxes would do to it?

▪ The communities then scramble to raise money -- turning to higher taxes.

technology

▪ Plus all the benefits of the latest high technology recording techniques for unsurpassed audio quality.

▪ Secondly, high technology industries are footloose - products such as microchips are easy to transport, and thrive in a clean environment.

▪ It is the interaction of high technology with traditional novelistic modes which is the focus of the work.

▪ So too can the industry and the broader environment, from traditional mass production to contemporary high technology, etc.

▪ Landfills, the burial sites for waste, are high technology now.

▪ Arguments on the pros and cons of high technology medicine are bedevilled by many false assumptions.

▪ It is high technology made easy.

▪ Much high technology medicine is therefore palliative, alleviating the effects of the disease by relieving pain or restoring mobility.

temperature

▪ Finally, there were the microscopic soot spheres, produced by high temperature combustion, such as in the boilers of power stations.

▪ The plant is sensitive to alkaline conditions and prefers cool waters but temporarily withstands higher temperatures.

▪ The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures.

▪ To produce a dark brick, for example, it is baked at a higher temperature.

▪ Note that at the higher temperature there is a higher spread of speed.

▪ There is another slightly more subtle limitation imposed by the fact that oxygen attacks most metals severely at high temperatures.

▪ We knew next to nothing experimentally of the elementary properties of matter at such high temperatures.

▪ Either very exotic and expensive metals or oxygen-free exhausts must be used to get to higher temperatures.

tide

▪ A high tide had led to predictions of one of the largest bores of the year.

▪ About 125 people were briefly evacuated from a Revere elderly housing complex until the high tide passed uneventfully.

▪ When he comes down, it is like high tide along the shore-all the wet muddy places sparkle with life and motion.

▪ It learns the relative positions of the pools at high tide, when it can swim over them.

▪ And just as the moon rises later each night, so the high tides are correspondingly later.

▪ Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates.

▪ The result: a piece as solid and dependable as a sand castle in high tide.

unemployment

▪ But the long recession, together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market, has changed homeowners' perceptions.

▪ Of those, California posted the highest unemployment rate -- 7. 7 percent -- last month.

▪ But real wages steadily increased in spite of recession and high unemployment.

▪ Even though many economists would predict higher unemployment if the initiative were adopted, some might not.

▪ Officials from one country told Ellena that its citizens had enough stress coping with high unemployment and other transition ills.

▪ Share values were depressed by expectations of slower economic growth and higher unemployment.

▪ It has high unemployment and considerable long-term unemployment.

▪ Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers.

value

▪ If high value loads are carried regularly, an appropriate annual premium should be sought.

▪ He puts high value on consistent training, on consistent communications, on consistent remuneration schemes.

▪ Insurance For mailing high value items, cover up to £1500.

▪ Limitation on liability is placed at £800 per tonne which should be monitored and adjusted in the case of higher value consignments.

▪ They also work against a high value being placed upon the creation of peaceful everyday relationships.

▪ Emap has an asset base of extremely strong brands, loyal high value customers and differentiated content in both B2C and B2B.

▪ This is due to the time taken to charge capacitor C3 via the high value resistor R4.

▪ Firstly, western culture places a high value on material acquisition and its display, because this reflects hard work and thrift.

wind

▪ Monday, their last day in the Macleod castle, dawned with higher winds.

▪ Lightning or high winds can knock branches or whole trees on to power lines, cutting the electricity to an entire neighborhood.

▪ This allows good use of space, but high winds compress the sides.

▪ Downpours, lightning and thunder, high winds, a tornado that barely missed carrying away the house.

▪ The crossed poles structure gives the stability you need to cope with high winds, together with a good space to weight ration.

▪ The high winds did not cease.

▪ It's thought he'd been swept off a mountain in high winds.

▪ More than 1, 100 plows struggled to keep up with the high winds and drifts of four to six feet.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be (in) for the high jump

▪ And it's all about: Who is for the high jump in Rome?

▪ He'd be for the high jump, as usual.

be flying high

▪ The Rams are flying high after winning the Super Bowl.

▪ He was now on to the mid-irons and these were flying high and true.

▪ I was always happy to be flying high.

▪ Like the other Salomon executives, Massey was flying high in 1985 on the back of a series of record earning quarters.

be high/low on a list (of sth)

be riding high

▪ Before Saturday's defeat, the Broncos had been riding high.

▪ Blackpool are riding high in Division Four, while United have slowly sunk down the table.

▪ By the summer of 1945, the Allies were riding high.

▪ The Agnelli family, which owns almost 40% of the company, was riding high.

▪ The salary cap was not in place when Jimmy was riding high in Dallas.

▪ Travolta, who is riding high in Hollywood, takes a minor career risk by playing a villain.

come hell or high water

▪ Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.

▪ I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.

▪ I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.

▪ My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.

▪ She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.

exact a high/heavy price

have a high/low/good/bad etc opinion of sb/sth

▪ All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has.

▪ He did not, in any case, have a high opinion of Santayana - an animus which Santayana reciprocated towards Eliot.

▪ Politicians generally have a low opinion of the press, just as the press generally has a low opinion of lawmakers.

▪ She does not seem to have a high opinion of married life.

have friends in high places

▪ Bowen had friends in high places, and managed to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations.

▪ He won't lose his job -- he has plenty of friends in high places.

▪ I just happened to have friends in high places, who could arrange things like meetings with the mayor.

▪ The Achym family had friends in high places, including the powerful Lord Burghley, and were allowed to return.

▪ But Tony and his colleagues have friends in high places.

▪ We have friends in high places, they said.

have high/great hopes for sb/sth

high profile

▪ It provides a high profile and public relations for the city.

▪ Luria and Nordin have a high profile in the arts community.

▪ Mechanics on the entirely separate test group work even harder than their counterparts with a higher profile on the race team.

▪ Still, I was determined to cash in on my success and maintain a high profile at the ground.

▪ The Central Freeway campaign represents a broader issue with a higher profile.

▪ The next extracts provide some explanation of the social context which gave this distinction such a high profile.

▪ This coming year, health and safety issues will enjoy an even higher profile.

▪ With his group the Daintees, he was a high profile act with a major record company until quite recently.

high stakes

▪ But commander-in-chief Douglas MacArthur wanted to play for higher stakes.

▪ Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play, gambling with their bodies.

▪ He found Zacco lightly intoxicated, and playing dice for high stakes among a circle of friends.

▪ I have relatively high stakes in conformity - I happen to have done fairly well out of it.

▪ It was the highest stakes ever.

▪ Of course much depends on how the current high stakes budget negotiations play out.

▪ The higher stakes have increased the temptation to overload the inflatable speedboats, called Zodiacs.

▪ You thought you'd play - for higher stakes than those he was offering.

high watermark

▪ Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model.

high-backed/straight-backed/low-backed etc

high-collared/open-collared/fur-collared etc

high/low mark

▪ Expect him to finish the season on a higher mark.

▪ Job sharers scored high marks on problem solving, team work and flexibility and demonstrated greater resilience in the face of setbacks.

▪ Newhome sales were slightly below the high marks of the late 1970s.

▪ She also gives high marks to manager Dusty Baker.

▪ The company received fairly high marks in Clark County, where it began managing mental health services in January 1996.

▪ The formula attains a high mark when a diversity of variables is woven into a unified design.

▪ This is how to do it - and earn high marks!

high/low water

▪ But it was a misreading to suppose that the vote then marked the high water mark on the issue.

▪ My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.

▪ The chief drawback to small-scale silage-making is the extra physical work involved in handling the green crop with its high water content.

▪ They currently pay some of the highest water charges in the country.

▪ They hugged the shore, Clayt pulling hard on the wheel at unseen shoals, flying over low water.

▪ They said high water levels in the Sacramento delta, which spills into the San Francisco Bay, were also worrisome.

▪ Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides.

▪ Why are current city water users subsidizing this madness with higher water rates?

high/low watermark

▪ Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model.

in high dudgeon

join the mile high club

live high on the hog

▪ They've been living high on the hog since Jim got the money from his aunt.

of a high order/of the highest order

on the small/high/heavy etc side

▪ Also on the small side is the 14-gallon fuel tank.

▪ Both versions have the same size fuel tank, which, at 14. 5 gallons, is on the small side.

▪ Burned by that experience, chip forecasters prepared their 1996 forecasts on the high side.

▪ For political reasons, these estimates are on the high side.

▪ The bedrooms, though on the small side, have recently been completed refurbished in sophisticated style.

▪ The clams and mussels-four of each-are on the small side, but flavorful.

▪ The little one's a bit on the small side.

▪ The only complaint we had with the shoe was the weight - it's on the heavy side.

ridge of high pressure

run high

▪ Actual monthly charges often run higher, however, because on-line services charge more for extra hours of use.

▪ All day Saturday, tensions ran high as the president alternated intense cabinet meetings with bouts of seclusion.

▪ And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.

▪ At that news, excitement among scientists ran high.

▪ Buyer interest in Pebble Beach has always run high.

▪ Later bravado runs high to disguise their feelings and some of them exploit the situation for gain.

▪ People seem confused, tensions run high, and constant crisis is a fact of organizational life.

▪ The courts served as a safety-valve, acting as an alternative to violence when emotions ran high.

sb's stock is high/low

▪ Simon's stock is high in the network news business.

take the (moral) high road

▪ Daley has taken the high road in his campaign, trying to ignore Merriam's attacks.

▪ Instead, I decided to take the high road.

▪ Read in studio Still to come on Central News, taking the high road.

▪ She was at least making the attempt to take the high road, only to run into a dead end.

the high jump

the high seas

the high street

the higher/lower reaches of sth

▪ A booming hearty from the higher reaches of Personnel fills our glasses and remembers nearly everyone's name.

▪ A clutch of them have clawed their way to the higher reaches of educational administration.

▪ But in the higher reaches of the Yorkshire Dales, there is nowhere to hide.

▪ Councillor Enderby had all the fluency of a life spent in the lower reaches of local government.

▪ It became a rough bridleway, leading through a series of gates on to the lower reaches of moorland.

▪ Quality flounder from the lower reaches of Poole harbour.

▪ She could either turn round, or brazen her way past the pressmen to the lower reaches of the parkland.

▪ There's many more like them, and not just in the lower reaches of the Football League.

throw sth into high relief

unusually high/large/quiet etc

▪ And that was a peculiar job from that point of view, because it included an unusually large number of fifty-dollar bills.

▪ Chang felt that the surface, which offered an unusually high bounce for an indoor court, suited a baseliner like himself.

▪ Fortunately it was an unusually quiet day at the surgery.

▪ Nevertheless, we had all noticed that for the past week Loi had been unusually quiet.

▪ Nor can local suspicions that the incidence of cancer is unusually high be calmed or confirmed.

▪ These energetic measures produced unusually large sums.

▪ Video-Tape, no voice over SWINDON/Wiltshire A spokesman said the workload is unusually high for the time of year.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ High levels of radiation have been reported near the nuclear plant.

▪ A couple of boys had climbed the high chain-link fence to get into the park.

▪ Analysts are concerned about the high level of consumer debt.

▪ Dogs respond to sounds that are too high for humans to hear.

▪ Donna had some trouble reaching the high notes.

▪ Gas prices are much higher here than in other parts of the country.

▪ God, I got so high last night.

▪ He mocked her by repeating what she said in a high, childish voice.

▪ How high is the Eiffel Tower?

▪ I always try to avoid foods with a high fat content.

▪ I recognized Juliet's high, excited voice on the phone immediately.

▪ I try to eat a low-fat, high-protein diet.

▪ I was amazed that he could sing such high notes.

▪ In summer, the temperatures can be as high as 40°C.

▪ Increased production costs will mean higher prices for consumers.

▪ It's hard to know which products have high lead levels.

▪ Mount St. Alban is Washington's highest point.

▪ Mt. McKinley is the highest mountain in North America.

▪ Newton died at age 47 while high on crack cocaine.

▪ Paul has extremely high blood pressure.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Airlines experiment with the highest possible fares over the weekend.

▪ Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level.

▪ However, with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs.

▪ Its first proposed product, is a drug treatment to prevent viral pneumonia in high risk infants.

▪ The less well off do receive transfer payments and the rich face the highest rates of income tax.

▪ The price deflator measures the size of price increases, and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.

II.adverb