High vs. Low — What's the Difference?
By Tayyaba Rehman — Published on October 5, 2023
High refers to a position, level, or value above a standard; low is the opposite, denoting something below a standard.
Difference Between High and Low
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Key Differences
When discussing emotions or states of being, "High" can denote intense, elevated, or extreme states, like high spirits or high energy levels, portraying positivity or excess. "Low" can reflect subdued, depleted, or minimal states, like low morale or low energy, indicating negativity or lack.
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In the context of physical location or elevation, "High" signifies a point that is elevated or above ground level, like a mountain peak. "Low," in contrast, implies a point that is closer to the ground or below ground level, such as a valley. These terms can often be applied to describe geographical features, objects, or even the relative position of parts of the body.
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In terms of measurements and assessments, such as in temperatures, prices, or grades, "High" implies larger amounts, greater extents, or superior rankings. "Low" suggests smaller quantities, lesser extents, or inferior rankings, often portraying insufficiency or lack.
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"High" and "Low" are relative terms often used to describe opposing ends of a spectrum or scale. "High" usually refers to a position, level, or value that is above the average or normal, indicating superiority or abundance in quantity, quality, or degree. Conversely, "Low" represents a position, level, or value that is beneath the average or normal, suggesting inferiority or deficiency in quantity, quality, or degree.
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In sound and music, "High" refers to pitches or tones that have a high frequency, producing sharp or shrill sounds. "Low," on the other hand, denotes pitches or tones with a low frequency, resulting in deep or bass sounds. These terms help in distinguishing between the varied tones and pitches in musical compositions or auditory perceptions.
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Comparison Chart
Meaning
Above average or normal in level, value, or degree.
Below average or normal in level, value, or degree.
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In Measurements
Indicates larger amounts, greater extents.
Suggests smaller quantities, lesser extents.
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In Location
Elevated or above ground level.
Closer to or below ground level.
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In States of Being
Denotes intense, elevated states.
Reflects subdued, depleted states.
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In Sound
Refers to high frequency, sharp sounds.
Denotes low frequency, deep sounds.
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Definitions
High
Elevated above ground or above the horizon.
The mountain is so high that its peak is covered in snow.
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Reflecting small numbers, quantities, or degrees.
He was disappointed with his low grade.
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Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity
A high temperature
Sweets are very high in calories
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Great in rank, status, or importance
Both held high office under Lloyd George
Financial security is high on your list of priorities
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Near to the ground or the horizon
The low clouds threaten rain. The sun is low.
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(of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range
A high, squeaky voice
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Feeling euphoric, especially from the effects of drugs or alcohol
Some of them were high on Ecstasy
She wasn't tipsy, just a little high
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(especially of food) unpleasantly strong-smelling because beginning to go bad
It's a type of preserved butter, used for cooking, smells a little high
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Close or closer to a reference point
Was low in the offensive zone, near the goal.
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(Linguistics) Produced with part or all of the tongue depressed, as a, pronounced (ä), in father. Used of vowels.
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At or to a considerable or specified height
The sculpture stood about five feet high
A dish piled high with baked beans
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Low
Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale
A low number.
A low grade of oil.
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Having a relatively great elevation; extending far upward
A high mountain.
A high tower.
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Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value
A low fee.
A low income.
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Far or farther from a reference point
Was too high in the offensive zone to take a shot.
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Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively small number of sound-wave cycles per second.
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Being at or near the peak or culminating stage
The high tourist season.
High summer.
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Advanced in development or complexity
High forms of animal life.
Higher mathematics.
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Violating standards of morality or decency; base
A low stunt to pull. ].
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Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
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Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively large number of sound-wave cycles per second
The high tones of a flute.
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Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
The low countries
Low German
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Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
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Of great importance
Set a high priority on funding the housing program.
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Low
Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. vulgar.}}
Now that was low even for you!
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Constituting a climax; crucial
The chase scene is the high point of the film.
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Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
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Characterized by lofty or stirring events or themes
High adventure.
High drama.
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Greater than usual or expected, as in quantity, magnitude, cost, or degree
“A high price has to be paid for the happy marriage with the four healthy children” (Doris Lessing).
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Low
Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
A low pulse
Made (or: laid) low by sickness
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Low
Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
My credit union charges a low interest rate.
Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous.
The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices.
The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs.
Low cholesterol
A low voltage wire
A low number
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Low
Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Diets low in vitamin A
Made from low-carbon steel
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(Slang) Intoxicated by alcohol or a drug, such as cocaine or marijuana.
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Simple in complexity or development.
Low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
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(Linguistics) Of or relating to vowels produced with part of the tongue close to the palate, as in the vowel of tree.
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Of, relating to, or being the gear configuration or setting, as in an automotive transmission, that produces the greatest vehicular speed with respect to engine speed.
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(in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
The low northern latitudes
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At, in, or to a lofty position, level, or degree
Saw a plane flying high in the sky.
Prices that had gone too high.
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(acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
The note was too low for her to sing.
Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
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Low
Quiet; soft; not loud.
They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?
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(phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
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(card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
A low card
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Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
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(Informal) An excited or euphoric condition
The team was on a high after winning in overtime.
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A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
Economic growth has hit a new low.
Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
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(Slang) An intoxicated or euphoric condition induced by alcohol or a drug.
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The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
Today's low was 32 °F.
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A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
He is in a low right now.
The highs and lows of bipolar disorder
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High
Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
The balloon rose high in the sky.
The wall was high.
A high mountain
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An area of low pressure; a depression.
A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
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Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
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The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
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(card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
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Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
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A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
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Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
Three feet high
Three Mount Everests high
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Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
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Most exalted; foremost.
The high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
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Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
High crimes, the high festival of the sun
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Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
High (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
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Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
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(in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
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Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
He sold his wheat low.
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Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
In high spirits
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Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
A high tone
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Low
(astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
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Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
High latitude, fish species in high arctic and antarctic areas
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Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
My bank charges me a high interest rate.
I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.
High voltage
High prices
High winds
A high number
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High
Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Carrots are high in vitamin A.
Made from a high-copper alloy
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Low
To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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(acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
The note was too high for her to sing.
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(phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
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(card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
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The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
Talking voices and the law of herds.
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High
(poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush
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(of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
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Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
The tailor liked his meat high.
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(informal) intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
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Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
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Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
Our defensive line is too high.
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Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
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In or to an elevated position.
How high above land did you fly?
The desks were piled high with magazines.
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Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
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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.
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The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
Today's high was 32 °C.
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Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, ă (ăm), ạ (ạll). See Guide to Pronunciation, 5, 10, 11.
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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.
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Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
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A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
A large high is centred on the Azores.
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Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
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Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ?
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Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
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Not elevated or sublime; not exalted in thought or diction; as, a low comparison.
In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.
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Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
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Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
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Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
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Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; - used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection
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Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preëminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.
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Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.
High time it is this war now ended were.
High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
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Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
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Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.
He was a wight of high renown.
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Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
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In time approaching our own.
In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
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Low
With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.
The . . . odorous windBreathes low between the sunset and the moon.
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High
Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.
Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
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In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.
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Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as ē (ēve), Ō (fŌd). See Guide to Pronunciation, 10, 11.
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In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; - said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
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Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Low
An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;
A low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
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Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper.
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British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
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Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; - used in a bad sense.
An high look and a proud heart . . . is sin.
His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
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In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.
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The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
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Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount;
Low prices
The reservoire is low
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High
The highest card dealt or drawn.
The dayspring from on high hath visited us.
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Literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension;
Low ceilings
Low clouds
Low hills
The sun is low
Low furniture
A low bow
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A lofty level or position or degree;
Summer temperatures reached an all-time high
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An air mass of higher than normal pressure;
The east coast benefits from a Bermuda high
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A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics;
They took drugs to get a high on
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Of the most contemptible kind;
Abject cowardice
A low stunt to pull
A low-down sneak
His miserable treatment of his family
You miserable skunk!
A scummy rabble
A scurvy trick
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A high place;
They stood on high and observed the coutryside
He doesn't like heights
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Low or inferior in station or quality;
A humble cottage
A lowly parish priest
A modest man of the people
Small beginnings
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A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12;
He goes to the neighborhood highschool
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A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
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Subdued or brought low in condition or status;
Brought low
A broken man
His broken spirit
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Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount;
A high temperature
A high price
The high point of his career
High risks
Has high hopes
The river is high
He has a high opinion of himself
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Low in spirits;
Lonely and blue in a strange city
Depressed by the loss of his job
A dispirited and resigned expression on her face
Downcast after his defeat
Feeling discouraged and downhearted
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(literal meanings) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high');
A high mountain
High ceilings
High buildings
A high forehead
A high incline
A foot high
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Being the gear producing the lowest drive speed;
Use first gear on steep hills
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Standing above others in quality or position;
People in high places
The high priest
Eminent members of the community
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Below average or normal in level, value, or amount.
The low temperature caused the water to freeze.
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Not high above ground level; close to the base.
The valley is low between the two mountains.
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Producing a sound of low frequency; deep or resonant.
He spoke in a low, rumbling voice.
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Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
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Denoting a subdued or depleted state or condition.
His energy was low after the long journey.
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In or to a high position, amount, or degree;
Prices have gone up far too high
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A state of being above average or normal in level or value.
The high price of the commodity is concerning.
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Indicating large numbers, amounts, or degrees.
He received a high score on his exam.
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Referring to a high-frequency sound or pitch.
The high note was difficult for the singer to reach.
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Expressing an elevated or extreme state of emotion or condition.
She is in high spirits after receiving good news.
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FAQs
What is the meaning of Low?
Low refers to a level, value, or degree that is below the average or normal.
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What does High represent?
High represents a level, value, or degree that is above the average or normal.
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Can you give an example of High in a sentence?
"The athlete jumped high, clearing the bar easily."
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Does High imply superiority in quantity, quality, or degree?
Yes, High often implies superiority or abundance in quantity, quality, or degree.
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Does Low suggest inferiority or deficiency?
Yes, Low typically suggests inferiority or deficiency in quantity, quality, or degree.
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What does Low denote in terms of physical location?
In terms of physical location, Low denotes a point that is closer to or below ground level.
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Does Low reflect negativity or lack in states of being?
Yes, Low generally reflects negativity or lack in states of being.
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In sound, how is High characterized?
In sound, High is characterized by high frequency, producing sharp or shrill sounds.
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Oct 05, 2023
Can High depict positivity or excess in emotional states?
Yes, High can often depict positivity or excess in emotional states.
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Oct 05, 2023
In geography, what does High refer to?
In geography, High typically refers to a point that is elevated or above ground level.
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What does Low denote in music or sound?
In music or sound, Low denotes pitches or tones with a low frequency, producing deep or resonant sounds.
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What does Low suggest in measurements?
In measurements, Low suggests smaller quantities, lesser extents, or inferior rankings.
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How do High and Low contrast in various contexts?
High and Low contrast in representing opposing ends of a spectrum, with High indicating above average or elevated states, values, or degrees, and Low indicating below average or subdued states, values, or degrees in various contexts.
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In assessments and measurements, what does High indicate?
In assessments and measurements, High indicates larger amounts, greater extents, or superior rankings.
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