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hight 音标拼音: [h'ɑɪt] a. 称为 称为 Height \ Height\ ( h[ imac] t), n. [ Written also { hight}.] [ OE. heighte, heght, heighthe, AS. he[' a] h[ eth] u, h[= e] h[ eth] u fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. h[" o] jd, Dan. h[" o] ide, Icel. h[ ae][ eth], Goth. hauhi[ thorn] a. See { High}.] 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. [ 1913 Webster] Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! -- Job xxii. 12. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] [ Goliath' s] height was six cubits and a span. -- 1 Sam. xvii. 4. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Degree of latitude either north or south. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. -- Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster] 4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; pre[" e] minence or distinction in society; prominence. [ 1913 Webster] Measure your mind' s height by the shade it casts. -- R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster] All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree. [ 1913 Webster] Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest. [ 1913 Webster] My grief was at the height before thou camest. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { On height}, aloud. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] [ He] spake these same words, all on hight. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Hight \ Hight\, n. A variant of { Height}. [ 1913 Webster]
Hight \ Hight\, v. t. & i. [ imp. { Hight}, { Hot}, p. p. { Hight}, { Hote} (?), { Hoten} (?). See { Hote}.] [ OE. heiten, highten, haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was called, AS. h[= a] tan to call, name, be called, to command, promise; also h[= a] tte is called, was called; akin to G. heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the passive, to be called.] 1. To be called or named. [ Archaic & Poetic.] [ 1913 Webster] Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a present, meaning is called or named, also as a preterite, was called or named. This form has also been used as a past participle. See { Hote}. [ 1913 Webster] The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight. -- Surrey. [ 1913 Webster] Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher. Father he hight, and he was, in the parish. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] Childe Harold was he hight. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To command; to direct; to impel. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To commit; to intrust. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To promise. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] He had hold his day, as he had hight. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
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