High vs Dry - What's the difference?

As a noun high

is (obsolete) thought; intention; determination; purpose or high can be a period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

As an adjective high

is elevated in position or status; above many things.

As an adverb high

is in or to an elevated position.

As a verb high

is (obsolete) to rise or high can be to hie; to hasten.

As an acronym dry is

(computing).

high

English

(wikipedia high)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Related to (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) high, heigh, heih, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* hi (informal)

Adjective

(er)

Elevated in position or status; above many things.

* , chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high ; I never see anybody so polite.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

Tall, lofty, at a great distance above the ground (at high altitude).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

(figuratively) Noble, especially of motives, intentions, etc.

(slang) Under the psychological effects of a mood-affecting drug, especially marijuana, or (less common) alcohol.

Of a quantity or value, great or large.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

(acoustics) Of greater frequency, i.e. with more rapid wave oscillations.

(of a, body of water) With tall waves.

(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

Epicures do not cook game before it is high .

Of great strength, force, importance, etc.; mighty; powerful; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.

a high''' wind; '''high passions

* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 13

Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

* Dryden

Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?

* Thackeray

with rather a high manner

Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud.

* Bible, Proverbs xxi. 4

An high look and a proud heart is sin.

* Clarendon

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.

Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount.

* Shakespeare

to hear and answer such high things

* Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

(phonetics) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate.

Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree.

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

* Spenser

High time it is this war now ended were.

* Baker

High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.

Antonyms

* low

Derived terms

* at the high port * fly high * get high * high altar * high as a kite * high and dry * high and low * high and mighty * high-beam * high blood pressure * high-born * high C * high card * high chair * high-class * high concept * high cotton * high country * high court * high-definition * high-density * high-end * high-energy * high explosive * high fantasy * high fashion * high fidelity * high five/high-five * high-frequency * High German * high-handed * high-hanging * high-hat * high heels * high hopes/have high hopes * high horse/on one's high horse * high island * high jinks * high jump * high-level * high line * high-maintenance * High Mass * high-minded * high-mindedly * high nelly * high-octane * high on the hog * high-pitch * high-pitched * high-powered * high pressure/high-pressure * high priest * high profile * high-ranking * high relief * high-rise * high-risk * high road * high roller * high school * high sea * high season * high-sounding * high-speed * high-spirited * high spirits * high-stick * high street * high-strung * high tackle * high tea * high-tech * high tension * high-test * high tide * high time * high-toned * high touch * high treason * high water * high yaller * highfalutin * highlight * highly * highness/Highness * highway * in high dudgeon * junior high * knee-high * Mile High Club * Most High * on high * sky-high * ultra-high * thigh-high * waist-high (high)

Adverb

(er)

In or to an elevated position.

How high above land did you fly?

In or at a great value.

Costs have grown higher this year again.

In a pitch of great frequency.

I certainly can't sing that high .

Usage notes

* The adverb high' and the adverb ' highly shouldn't be confused. *: He hung the picture high on the wall. *: ''As a politician, he isn't esteemed too highly .

Noun

(en noun)

A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]

They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high .

A drug that gives such a high.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs ” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}

(informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.

An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

(card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To rise.

The sun higheth .

Etymology 3

See hie.

Verb

(en verb)

To hie; to hasten.

* Holland

Men must high them apace, and make haste.

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

dry

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from liquid or moisture.

* Addison

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.

* Prescott

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.

Thirsty; needing drink.

* (William Shakespeare)

Give the dry fool drink.

(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.

Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.

(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.

* (Washington Irving)

He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.

(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.

(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.

(of animals) Not giving milk.

Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.

* (Alexander Pope)

These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.

(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.

Synonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parched

Antonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wet

Derived terms

* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dry

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To lose moisture.

The clothes dried on the line.

To remove moisture from.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.

Their sources of income dried up.

The stream of chatter dried up.

Derived terms

* drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondrying