height

Roget category 206

2. Words relating to space
› 2.2. Dimensions
›› 2.2.2. Linear dimensions

#206. Height

noun

height, altitude, elevation — eminence, pitch — loftiness etc. adj. — sublimity.
tallness etc. adj. — stature, procerity^† — prominence etc. 250.
colossus etc. (size) 192 — giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.
mount, mountain — hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle^†, fell, knap^† — cape — headland, foreland^† — promontory — ridge, hog's back, dune — rising ground, vantage ground — down — moor, moorland — Alp — uplands, highlands — heights etc. (summit) 210 — knob, loma^†, pena [U.S.], picacho^†, tump^† — knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole — steeps, bluff, cliff, craig^†, tor^†, peak, pike, clough^† — escarpment, edge, ledge, brae — dizzy height.
tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola — skyscraper.
pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff — top mast, topgallant mast.
ceiling etc. (covering) 223.
high water — high tide, flood tide, spring tide.
altimetry etc. (angel) 244^† — batophobia^†.
satellite, spy-in-the-sky.

verb

be high etc. adj. — tower, soar, command — hover, hover over, fly over — orbit, be in orbit — cap, culminate — overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount — perch, surmount — cover etc. 223 — overtop etc. (be superior) 33 — stand on tiptoe.
become high etc. adj. — grow higher, grow taller — upgrow^† — rise etc. (ascend) 305 — send into orbit.
render high etc. adj. — heighten etc. (elevate) 307.

adjective

high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall — gigantic etc. (big) 192 — Patagonian — towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens); elevated etc. 307 — upper — highest etc. (topmost) 210 — high reaching, insessorial^†, perching.
upland, moorland — hilly, knobby [U.S.] — mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing — cloudtopt^†, cloudcapt^†, cloudtouching^† — aerial.
overhanging etc. v. — incumbent, overlying, superincumbent^†, supernatant, superimposed — prominent etc. v. 250.
tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky etc. (thin) 203.

adverb

on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead — airwind^† — upstairs, abovestairs^† — in the clouds — on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of — over head and ears — breast high.
over, upwards — from top to bottom etc. (completely) 52.

phrase

e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto [It].

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