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<A NAME="highcomedy">
<B>high comedy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> comedy dealing with polite society and depending more on witty dialogue and well-drawn characters than on comic situations. </DL>
<A NAME="highcommand">
<B>high command,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the highest headquarters of a military force, or the supreme commanders of the armed forces of a nation or of allied nations. <BR> <I>Ex. President Eisenhower's reshuffle of the high command in the Pentagon (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the top leadership of any organization. <BR> <I>Ex. The decision of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command not to support the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen ... may seem only a defeat for the forces of good in their battle against evil (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highcommissioner">
<B>High Commissioner</B> or <B>high commissioner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a representative or ambassador of a member nation of the Commonwealth at the capital of another. <BR> <I>Ex. In Pakistan, my function was diplomatic; our High Commissioners in the Commonwealth countries are really ambassadors (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the head of any special commission of one country to another, such as a commission sent to govern temporarily an occupied territory. </DL>
<A NAME="highcourt">
<B>High Court,</B> <B>=Supreme Court.</B></DL>
<A NAME="highcourtofjustice">
<B>High Court of Justice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the chief criminal and civil court in England. </DL>
<A NAME="highday">
<B>high day,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a solemn or festal day; festival. </DL>
<A NAME="highdefinitiontelevision">
<B>high-definition television, =HDTV.</B></DL>
<A NAME="highdomed">
<B>high-domed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>having a high forehead or receding hairline. <BR> <I>Ex. a thin, high-domed fellow who wore horn-rimmed glasses (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) highbrow. </DL>
<A NAME="highdutch">
<B>High Dutch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Dutch language as spoken in the Netherlands. <BR> <I>Ex. ... that South African Dutch which has overridden High Dutch and is called Afrikaans (Sarah G. Millin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highend">
<B>high-end,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>including or comprising the high-income consumers; upscale. <BR> <I>Ex. the high-end segment of the housing market.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>most advanced or expensive of its kind. <BR> <I>Ex. Some systems available on the PC [personal computer] could go up as far in resolution as you can get on a high-end workstation today (Microage Quarterly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highenergy">
<B>high-energy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the high speeds imparted by particle accelerators. <BR> <I>Ex. high-energy collisions.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with high-energy physics. <BR> <I>Ex. high-energy research.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highenergyfuel">
<B>high-energy fuel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fuel for aircraft or missiles yielding greater energy per unit of weight than the conventional petroleum derivatives, as a boron compound. </DL>
<A NAME="highenergyparticle">
<B>high-energy particle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nuclear particle that has been accelerated to very high speeds in a particle accelerator. <BR> <I>Ex. High-energy particles are necessary in order to probe deeply into the interior of the nucleus (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highenergyphysics">
<B>high-energy physics,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of physics dealing with nuclear particles moving at very high speeds and their interaction. <BR> <I>Ex. Accelerators are the chief instruments of high-energy physics (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highercriticism">
<B>higher criticism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> scientific investigation of a literary work, especially the Bible, with regard to text, authorship, sources, and date against its historical and cultural background. </DL>
<A NAME="highereducation">
<B>higher education,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> education at a level beyond secondary school, especially college education. </DL>
<A NAME="highermathematics">
<B>higher mathematics,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> advanced mathematics, beyond those branches commonly taught in the secondary schools. </DL>
<A NAME="higherup">
<B>higher-up, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a person occupying a superior position. </DL>
<A NAME="highest">
<B>highest, </B>adjective, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> superlative of <B>high.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The highest mountain in the world is Everest.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> that which is highest. <BR> <I>Ex. We needs must love the highest when we see it (Tennyson).</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> to the most high point, place, rank, amount, degree, price, or pitch. <BR> <I>Ex. Of all the archers, he shot highest.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highexplosive">
<B>high explosive,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an explosive compound, such as nitroglycerin and TNT, that forms gas rapidly when detonated and shatters its container with great force. High explosives that are especially sensitive to heat are used in making detonators. adj. <B>high-explosive.</B> </DL>
<B>high-fashion, </B>adjective,<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the fashions taken up by the leaders in fashionable dress and living; of the most exclusive style. <BR> <I>Ex. the high-price, high-fashion field gets itself reorganized every six months by peregrinating waistlines and hemlines (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highfidelity">
<B>high fidelity,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the reproduction of sound by a radio, phonograph, or tape recorder with as little distortion of the original sound as possible. adj. <B>high-fidelity.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="highfield">
<B>high-field, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a very strong electric or magnetic field. </DL>
<A NAME="highfive">
<B>high five,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an informal gesture of greeting or congratulation in which two people each slap a raised hand with the other, usually overhead. </DL>
<A NAME="highflier">
<B>highflier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that flies high. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person who is extravagant or has pretentious ideas or ambitions. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) a pretentious or fashionable strumpet. <DD><B> 4. </B>an extremist in Tory politics or in High-Church doctrines in England in the 1700's. </DL>
<A NAME="highflown">
<B>high-flown, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>aspiring or extravagant. <BR> <I>Ex. high-flown ideas.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>attempting to be elegant or eloquent. <BR> <I>Ex. high-flown compliments.</I> (SYN) fustian. </DL>
<A NAME="highflyer">
<B>highflyer, </B>noun. <B>=highflier.</B></DL>
<A NAME="highflying">
<B>highflying, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that flies high. <BR> <I>Ex. a highflying bird.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) extravagant or pretentious. </DL>
<A NAME="highforest">
<B>high forest,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a forest of trees raised from seed. </DL>
<A NAME="highfrequency">
<B>high-frequency, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a frequency ranging from 3 to 30 megahertz. <BR> <I>Ex. high-frequency radio receivers, high-frequency sound waves.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highgear">
<B>high gear,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the gear ratio in a common automotive transmission used for normal driving, by which the driving wheels are turned fastest in relation to engine speed. <BR><I>expr. <B>in</B> (or <B>into</B>) <B>high gear,</B> </I>at full speed. <BR> <I>Ex. The automobile industry is in high gear (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highgerman">
<B>High German,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the literary and official language of Germany and Austria and one of the official languages of Switzerland. It developed from the dialects of central and southern Germany. </DL>
<A NAME="highgrade">
<B>high-grade, </B>adjective, verb, <B>-graded,</B> <B>-grading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of fine quality; superior. <BR> <I>Ex. high-grade oil, high-grade securities.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>rich in metal value. <BR> <I>Ex. high-grade ore.</I> <DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to steal high-grade ore. </DL>
<A NAME="highhanded">
<B>high-handed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> acting or done in a bold, arbitrary way; domineering; overbearing. <BR> <I>Ex. high-handed methods.</I> (SYN) tyrannical, autocratic. adv. <B>high-handedly.</B> noun <B>high-handedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="highhat">
<B>high-hat, </B>verb, <B>-hatted,</B> <B>-hatting,</B> adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>v.t. </I> to treat as inferior; snub. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>snobbish. <BR> <I>Ex. Christmas Cove's a nice place; not so high-hat as Bar Harbor (P. Marks).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>stylish or grand. <DD><I>noun </I> a snobbish person. </DL>
<A NAME="highhat">
<B>high hat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tall, black, silk hat; top hat. </DL>
<B>High Holidays</B> or <B>High Holy Days,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. </DL>
<A NAME="highhorse">
<B>high horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an arrogant or condescending attitude or disposition. <BR> <I>Ex. Relax and enjoy it, without getting up on a high horse (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="highhurdles">
<B>high hurdles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a race in which the runners jump over hurdles 3 1/2 or 3 1/4 feet high over a distance of 120 yards. </DL>
<A NAME="highiron">
<B>high iron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a main line of a railroad. </DL>
<A NAME="highish">
<B>highish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> somewhat high. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a skirt gathered at the highish waistline (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>high jinks,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) lively or boisterous behavior; unrestrained merrymaking. <BR> <I>Ex. a milling crowd of undergraduates bent on a spree of spring high jinks (New York Times).</I> </DL>
