High vs Down - What's the difference?
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Elevated in position or status; above many things.
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, chapter=1 Tall, lofty, at a great distance above the ground (at high altitude).
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, title= (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.
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, title= (acoustics) Of greater frequency, i.e. with more rapid wave oscillations.
(of a, body of water) With tall waves.
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(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Of great strength, force, importance, etc.; mighty; powerful; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 13
* Dryden
* Thackeray
Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud.
* Bible, Proverbs xxi. 4
* Clarendon
Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
(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.
* Spenser
* Baker
In or to an elevated position.
In or at a great value.
In a pitch of great frequency.
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
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A drug that gives such a high.
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, title= (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.
Hill, rolling grassland
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* Tennyson
(usually plural) Field, especially for racing.
(UK, mostly, in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
* Sandys
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
* Cook (First Voyage)
(lb) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
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, title= (lb) At a lower place or position.
South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
(lb) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
Into a state of non-operation.
(lb) The direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
(lb) Get down.
Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
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From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
From less to greater detail.
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From the higher end to the lower of.
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From one end to another of.
Depressed, feeling low.
On a lower level than before.
Having a lower score than an opponent.
(baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
(colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to
(not comparable, US, slang) Relaxed about, accepting of.
(not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
Finished]] (of a task); defeated or [[deal with, dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
(not comparable, military, police, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered.
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(obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Madame D'Arblay
(pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
(American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
To write off; to make fun of.
(obsolete) To go down; to descend.
a negative aspect; a downer.
(dated) A grudge ((on) someone).
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 10:
An act of swallowing an entire drink in one.
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down'', or ''is downed .
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
An downstairs room of a two story house.
down payment
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
(botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
* Dryden
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
* Tennyson
* Southern
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 a proper noun down is
one of the counties of northern ireland.high
English
(wikipedia high)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) high, heigh, heih, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* hi (informal)Adjective
(er)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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
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.}}
- Epicures do not cook game before it is high .
- a high''' wind; '''high passions
- Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
- Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
- with rather a high manner
- An high look and a proud heart is sin.
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
- to hear and answer such high things
- Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- 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 time it is this war now ended were.
- High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
Antonyms
* lowDerived 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)See also
* mightyAdverb
(er)- How high above land did you fly?
- Costs have grown higher this year again.
- 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)- 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 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.}}
See also
* crashEtymology 3
See hie.Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordsdown
English
(wikipedia down)Etymology 1
(etyl) doun, from (etyl) , from British Celtic dunon'' 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh ''din'' 'hill', Irish ''dún'' 'hill, fort'), from (etyl) *''dheue'' or ''dhwene . More at (town); akin to (dune).Noun
- Churchill Downs', Upson '''Downs (from ''Auntie Mame , by Patrick Dennis).
- And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
- My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
- Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex.
- She went by dale, and she went by down .
- Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs .
- On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs , and went ashore at Deal.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adverb
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
- Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
- (Arbuthnot)
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Usage notes
* Down' can be used with verbs in ways that change the meaning of the verb in ways not entirely predictable from the meanings of the ' down and the verb, though related to them. See .Antonyms
* (From a higher position to a lower one) up * (At a lower place) up * up * (Into a state of non-operation) up * upPreposition
(English prepositions)Antonyms
* (From the higher end to the lower) upDerived terms
* (from the higher end to the lower) sell down the riverAdjective
(en adjective)- So, things got you down ? / Is Rodney Dangerfield giving you no respect? / Well, bunky, cheer up!
- The stock market is down .
- Prices are down .
- They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
- He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
- At 5-1 down , she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
- Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
- Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
- Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
- As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
- ''The system is down .
- Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
- Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
- We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
- There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
- We have a chopper down near the river .
- It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
- I stay with Chloe the longest. When she's not hanging out at the beach parties, she lives in a Japanese garden complete with an arched bridge spanning a pond filled with koi of varying sizes and shapes. Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand. Chloe has this whole new Japanese thing down .
- a down denial
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Antonyms
* (Depressed) up * (On a lower level) up * (Having a lower score) up * (Inoperable) upVerb
(en verb)- He downed an ale and ordered another.
- The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
- To down proud hearts.
- I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
- He downed two balls on the break.
- He downed it at the seven-yard line.
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (drink) See alsoNoun
(en noun)- I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
- She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word.
- I bet after the third down , the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
- I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs .
- She lives in a two-up two-down .
Derived terms
* down and out * down at heel * down for the count * down in the dumps * down in the mouth * down memory lane * down on one's luck * down payment * down pat * downed (US and Canadian football) * downer * down to the short strokes * first down (US and Canadian football) * fourth down (US football) * second down (US and Canadian football) * third down (US and Canadian football) * top-down * upside downReferences
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
- The first down begins to shade his face.
- When in the down I sink my head, / Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
- Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares!
