height
高度,身高
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- : extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet.
- : distance upward from a given level to a fixed point: the height from the ground to the first floor; the height of an animal at the shoulder.
- : the distance between the lowest and highest points of a person standing upright; stature: She is five feet in height.
- : considerable or great altitude or elevation: the height of the mountains.
- : Often heights . a high place above a level; a hill or mountain: They stood on the heights overlooking the valley.the highest part; top; apex; summit: In his dreams he reached the heights.
- : the highest point; utmost degree: the height of power; the height of pleasure.
- : Archaic. high rank in social status.
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A surfer cares about wave heights, not the jostling of water molecules.
The difference between the ice cube and the final tower height was zero every time.
The plan would raise the height limit not just for the Sports Arena area but the entire Midway corridor down to Old Town.
Falling ad prices on TV earlier this spring amid the height of the coronavirus crisis caught the attention of a number of direct-to-consumer brands, as previously reported by Digiday.
The last time it reached such heights was January 2018, when a massive volatility shock sent the index into a correction.
This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.
During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.
At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.
Recipients in a cryobank can peruse donor files and see hair color, eye color, race, height, IQ, and so on.
From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him.
All please noteHis wondrous height and girth; He has the longest legs and throatOf anything on earth.
And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.
The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
The purpose of these larger windows is the effectual lighting of the Boardroom, which is of the height of two storeys.
She was barely five feet five, but she ranked with tall women, her height as unchallenged as the chiselling of her profile.