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[Height]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], [ang], [en], from [en] (compare
[gem-pro]). Equivalent to [en].
[2] See also [stq], [stq], [fy], [nl], [gmh], [gmh], [non] and [non] (compare
[sv], [no]), [got]. [col-bottom]
*** Pronunciation
- [hīt] , [en]
- [obsolete] [hāt] , [en] [1]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
2. * [en]
3. * [chapter=5]
1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal ( withers in the case of a horse).
2. [en] The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
3. [en] The amplitude of a sinusoid .
4. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level .
5. A high point .
6. * [page=37]
7. * [en]
1. [en] The highest point or maximum degree.
2. * [version=Q2]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=Peter Bondanella | title=Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos | chapter=4 | page= [q=height]
|passage=During the HEIGHT of Italian immigration in the United States and in
New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because
of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as
crooked as the gang leaders themselves.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=October 29, 2011 | author=Neil Johnston | title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
|work=BBC Sport|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15413656.stm
|passage=If City never quite reached the HEIGHTS of their 6-1 demolition of
United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long
before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.}}
1. A mountain , especially a very high one.
2. [en] An area of land at the top of a cliff .
1. [en] A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant , associated with the height of the tongue.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|aheight |Chicago Heights |Cleveland Heights |coheight |commanding
heights |Cornwells Heights |decision height |drying height |find your height
|geopotential height |height above average terrain |heighten |heightfield
|heighthon |heightism |heightist |heightless |heightmap |height money |height
to paper |heightwise |Irlams o' th' Height |isoheight |legal height
|line-height |metacentric height |midheight |no-height |overheight |ride
height |Ryland Heights |scale height |significant wave height |slant height
|star height |up a height |Valley Heights |vanity height |x-height }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[distance from bottom to top]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hanunoo: [hnn]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so] , [so]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[distance above the ground or some chosen level] [trans-bottom]
[phonetics: a quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the
tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[height of a standing person or animal]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [person] , [fi] [animal] , [fi] [animal to the withers]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [of a person] , [ja] [of persons, animals] , [ja] [withers height of animals]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] [person] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[highest point]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
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