High vs. Low: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
"High" refers to a great vertical extent, level, or degree, whereas "low" denotes a smaller or lesser extent, level, or degree, often in a downward direction or position.
Key Differences
"High" is used to describe something that is elevated in position or degree, such as a high mountain or high temperature. "Low," on the other hand, refers to something closer to the ground or lower in degree, like a low shelf or low pressure.
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In terms of measurement, high indicates greater numbers or amounts, as in high volume or high speed. Low signifies smaller numbers or amounts, as in low income or low speed.
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Emotionally or qualitatively, high can imply a state of excitement or intensity, like high spirits or high quality. Low, in contrast, may imply a state of depression or inferiority, such as low morale or low quality.
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In physical geography, high is used for elevated terrains like highlands. Low is used for depressions or areas below average elevation, like lowlands.
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"High" and "low" also have metaphorical uses, like high hopes (optimism) or a low point (a difficult or bad phase).
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Comparison Chart
Position/Level
Elevated, above ground
Closer to the ground, below a standard
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Measurement
Greater in numbers, amounts, degree
Smaller in numbers, amounts, degree
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High and Low Definitions
High
Of superior quality.
She always buys high-quality ingredients for her cooking.
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Low
Experiencing a downturn or depression.
His spirits were low after the news.
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High
Having a relatively great elevation; extending far upward
A high mountain.
A high tower.
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High
Far or farther from a reference point
Was too high in the offensive zone to take a shot.
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Low
Near to the ground or the horizon
The low clouds threaten rain. The sun is low.
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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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Close or closer to a reference point
Was low in the offensive zone, near the goal.
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High
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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(Linguistics) Produced with part or all of the tongue depressed, as a, pronounced (ä), in father. Used of vowels.
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High
Of great importance
Set a high priority on funding the housing program.
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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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Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value
A low fee.
A low income.
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High
Constituting a climax; crucial
The chase scene is the high point of the film.
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Characterized by lofty or stirring events or themes
High adventure.
High drama.
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Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively small number of sound-wave cycles per second.
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High
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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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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(Slang) Intoxicated by alcohol or a drug, such as cocaine or marijuana.
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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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(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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Low
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, 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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High
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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Low
Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. vulgar.}}
Now that was low even for you!
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Low
Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
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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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High
(Informal) An excited or euphoric condition
The team was on a high after winning in overtime.
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(Slang) An intoxicated or euphoric condition induced by alcohol or a drug.
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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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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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High
Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
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Low
Simple in complexity or development.
Low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
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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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Low
(in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
The low northern latitudes
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Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
Three feet high
Three Mount Everests high
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Low
(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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High
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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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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High
Most exalted; foremost.
The high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
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Low
(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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High
Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
High crimes, the high festival of the sun
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Low
(card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
A low card
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High
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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Low
Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
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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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Low
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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High
Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
In high spirits
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Low
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
Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
A high tone
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An area of low pressure; a depression.
A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
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Low
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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Low
(card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
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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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Low
A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
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High
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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High
(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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High
(card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
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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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High
(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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Low
Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
He sold his wheat low.
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High
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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High
(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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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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High
Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
Our defensive line is too high.
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High
In or to an elevated position.
How high above land did you fly?
The desks were piled high with magazines.
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High
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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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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High
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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High
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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Low
The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
Talking voices and the law of herds.
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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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Low
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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Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
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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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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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High
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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Low
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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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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Low
Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
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Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
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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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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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Low
Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
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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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Low
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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High
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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High
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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Low
Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
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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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Low
Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
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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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High
The highest card dealt or drawn.
The dayspring from on high hath visited us.
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Low
Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
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High
A lofty level or position or degree;
Summer temperatures reached an all-time high
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High
An air mass of higher than normal pressure;
The east coast benefits from a Bermuda high
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Low
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
A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics;
They took drugs to get a high on
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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
In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.
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High
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12;
He goes to the neighborhood highschool
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Low
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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High
A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
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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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High
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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British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
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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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High
Standing above others in quality or position;
People in high places
The high priest
Eminent members of the community
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Low
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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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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Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
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In or to a high position, amount, or degree;
Prices have gone up far too high
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Low
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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Low
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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High
Great in amount, degree, or intensity.
The meeting was of high importance.
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Low
Subdued or brought low in condition or status;
Brought low
A broken man
His broken spirit
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High
Experiencing excitement or euphoria.
They were in high spirits after the victory.
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Low
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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Low
Being the gear producing the lowest drive speed;
Use first gear on steep hills
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Small in amount, degree, or intensity.
The battery is running low on charge.
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Below average in rank or status.
He started his career in a low position.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What does high mean in terms of altitude?
High refers to a great vertical extent above the ground.
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What does high mean in music?
In music, high refers to a pitch that is toward the upper end of the scale.
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Is low used in reference to economic conditions?
Yes, it can describe economic situations like low income or low prices.
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How is low used in describing quantity?
Low describes a small amount or quantity.
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Can high refer to emotional states?
Yes, high can describe states of excitement or euphoria.
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What does a high position imply in a company?
It implies a position of seniority or authority.
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Can "high" and "low" describe volume?
Yes, "high" can mean a loud volume, and "low" can refer to a soft volume.
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Can high describe levels of importance?
Yes, high can be used to describe something of great importance or priority.
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Can low indicate a mood?
Yes, low can describe feelings of sadness or depression.
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Is low used to describe quality?
Yes, low can describe something of inferior quality.
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How does low apply in physical geography?
Low refers to areas of lower elevation, like valleys or basins.
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How do these words apply to temperatures?
"High" refers to elevated temperatures, and "low" indicates lower temperatures.
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What do "high" and "low" generally mean?
"High" refers to a great vertical extent or elevation, while "low" indicates a lesser vertical extent, closer to the ground or a reference point.
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Are "high" and "low" used in emotions?
Yes, one can feel "high" (elated) or "low" (depressed).
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Dec 02, 2023
How do they relate to academic performance?
"High" signifies excellent performance, whereas "low" indicates poor performance.
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Are they used in geography?
Yes, "high" refers to elevated areas like mountains, and "low" to depressed areas like valleys.
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Dec 02, 2023
Can they describe levels of difficulty?
Yes, "high" can mean difficult or complex, and "low" can mean easy or simple.
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Dec 02, 2023
Do they have financial meanings?
"High" can refer to expensive or a peak in price, while "low" can mean cheap or a trough in price.
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Dec 02, 2023
Can "high" and "low" describe social status?
Yes, "high" can imply a superior or prestigious status, while "low" can indicate an inferior or less prestigious status.
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Dec 02, 2023
Can they describe physical strength or energy?
Yes, "high" can mean strong or energetic, and "low" can mean weak or lethargic.
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Dec 02, 2023
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