English Dictionary

high

/ˈhaɪ/

noun

A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).

The mountain peak is a high point in the landscape.

意味（1）

A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).

意味（2）

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

Today's high was 32 °C.

意味（3）

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

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.

意味（4）

A drug that gives such a high.

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.

意味（5）

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

A large high is centred on the Azores.

意味（6）

(card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.