high
/haɪ/ sustantivo C2En español: colocón, subidón, endrogamiento
- A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc). · It was one of the highs of his career.· Inflation reached a ten-year high.
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period. · Today's high was 32 °C.
- A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. · That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.
- A drug that gives such a high.
- A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone. · A large high is centred on the Azores.
- The highest card dealt or drawn.
Plural highs
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Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch’s castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
I have dined many times with him and the Count of Morcerf, so you see I have some high connections and were I to cultivate them a little, we might meet in the same drawing-rooms.”
A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
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