height
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
height/hʌɪt/
▶noun
- 1 the measurement of someone or something from head to foot or from base to top.
■ the quality of being tall or high.
- 2 elevation above ground or a recognized level (typically sea level).
■ a high place or area.
- 3 the most intense part or period of something.
■ an extreme instance or example of something: the height of bad manners.
'height' also found in these Oxford entries:
air pocket
- altimetry
- altitude
- aspect ratio
- bank
- bar chart
- body mass index
- built-up
- buskin
- chesterfield
- command
- contour
- department
- dimension
- drop test
- elevation
- em
- Etruscan
- fall
- flat
- flourish
- footer
- freeboard
- gradient
- H
- h
- hand
- head
- height of land
- hh.
- high
- high jump
- hook
- hypso-
- hypsometer
- inch
- letter box
- level
- loading gauge
- lofty
- low
- low-slung
- mediocre
- mountain
- out-top
- overtop
- paraglider
- Periclean
- perspective
