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Definition of Highs
1. high [n] - See also: high
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highs
Literary usage of Highs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illicit Drug Use, Smoking and Drinking by America's High School Students by Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman (1993)
"The highs achieved with marijuana, although intense for many users, ... The median
duration of highs for methaqualone is three to six hours. ..."
2. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"The highs entering from the northwest may also move southeast over Kansas ...
The highs coming in over California usually move southeast and join this track ..."
3. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1912)
"There are five barometric highs on the oceans, as indicated by figure, that remain
substantially fixed in position throughout the year though of varying ..."
4. Studies in the Principles of Geography: Following the Problem Method by Earl Emmet Lackey (1920)
"highs AND LOWS IN RELATION TO TEMPERATURE Purpose: Working out the relation of
highs and lows to changes of temperature Problem: Why is the northern part of ..."
5. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1913)
"... highs Colony the which Request wee haveing maturely and Deliberately ...
highs good Gracious and Reall Intentions to Encourage and Advance the Ease ..."
6. A Collection of the Facts and Documents, Relative to the Death of Major by William Coleman (1804)
"I AM sensible that in a licentious age, and when laws made to yield to the vices
of those who move in the highs circles, this crime is called by I know not ..."
7. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"Anticyclones, highs. — At times the barometric pressure over an area of country
is very much above the average, sometimes being as high as 31.0 inches, ..."
8. Field Methods in Petroleum Geology by Guy Henry Cox (1921)
"Topographic highs.—As noted under erosion escarpments, drainage courses gradually
... The coincidence of structural and topographic "highs" is therefore a ..."
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