height
See also: Height
height - English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: hīt, IPA: /haɪt/
- (obsolete) enPR: hāt, IPA: /heɪt/
- Homophone: hight
- Hyphenation: height
Noun
height (countable and uncountable, plural heights)
- The distance from the base of something to the top.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- Coordinate terms: (horizontal dimension) backness, (lip articulation) roundedness, length, nasalization, reduction
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- The highest point or maximum degree.
- She's at the height of her career.
- A high point.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- (mathematics) The amplitude of a sine function
Synonyms
- (highest point): See also apex
Antonyms
- (distance from bottom to top): depth
Derived terms
- Chicago Heights
- Cleveland Heights
- coheight
- commanding heights
- Cornwells Heights
- decision height
- drying height
- fear of heights
- geopotential height
- height above average terrain
- height fear
- height money
- height to paper
- height-fear
- heightism
- heightwise
- legal height
- line-height
- metacentric height
- no-height
- ride height
- Ryland Heights
- scale height
- significant wave height
- slant height
- star height
- up a height
- vanity height
- x-height
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