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height meaning

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  • Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use.
height
  • NounPLheights
    1. The distance from the base of something to the top.
      1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
        1. The highest point or maximum degree.
          1. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
          2. More Examples
            1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
              • In this case the drop in cartilaginous dorsal height was helpful to deproject the nose, making dorsal cartilage excision unnecessary.
              • My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
              • The guider of all crownes, Graunt that our deeds may wel deserve your loves: And so they shall, if fortune speed my will, And yeeld our thoughts to height of my desertes.
            2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
              • That was about 3m years ago, when the globe was about 3-5F warmer on average, the Arctic 14.4F warmer, megasharks swam the oceans, and sea levels stood at least 20 ft above their current heights.
              • Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

          Meaning of height for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "height" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
          • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
            1. Nouns
              • Countable nouns
                • Singularia tantum
                  • Uncountable nouns
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