height
/haɪt/ noun B1- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). · — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
- The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge. · The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
- The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level. · We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.· I'm afraid of heights.
- A high point.
- The highest point or maximum degree. · She's at the height of her career.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
Plural heights
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“That seems simple enough,” said I; “but how about the other man’s height?”
“Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride.
Franz, who had mutely interrogated the countess, and received from her a gracious smile in token that he would be welcome, sought not to retard the gratification of Albert’s eager impatience, but began at once the tour of the house, closely followed by Albert, who availed himself of the few minutes required to reach the opposite side of the theatre to settle the height and smoothness of his collar, and to arrange the lappets of his coat.
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.”
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