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High relief   /haɪ rɪlˈif/   Listen
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High  adj.  (compar. higher; superl. highest)  
1.
Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
2.
Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection; as
(a)
Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. "The highest faculty of the soul."
(b)
Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. "He was a wight of high renown."
(c)
Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.
(d)
Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. "With rather a high manner." "Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand." "Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?"
(e)
Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. "Both meet to hear and answer such high things." "Plain living and high thinking are no more."
(f)
Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. "If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper."
(g)
Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; used in a bad sense. "An high look and a proud heart... is sin." "His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot."
3.
Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, 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) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. "High time it is this war now ended were." "High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies."
4.
(Cookery) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
5.
(Mus.) Acute or sharp; opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.
6.
(Phon.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
High admiral, the chief admiral.
High altar, the principal altar in a church.
High and dry, out of water; out of reach of the current or tide; said of a vessel, aground or beached.
High and mighty arrogant; overbearing. (Colloq.)
High art, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display.
High bailiff, the chief bailiff.
High Church and Low Church, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high-churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental presence in the Eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and to the sole validity of Episcopal ordination. They attach much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship. Low-churchmen lay less stress on these points, and, in many instances, reject altogether the peculiar tenets of the high-church school. See Broad Church.
High constable (Law), a chief of constabulary. See Constable, n., 2.
High commission court, a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in 1559. On account of the abuse of its powers it was abolished in 1641.
High day (Script.), a holy or feast day.
High festival (Eccl.), a festival to be observed with full ceremonial.
High German, or High Dutch. See under German.
High jinks, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild sport. (Colloq.) "All the high jinks of the county, when the lad comes of age."
High latitude (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator.
High life, life among the aristocracy or the rich.
High liver, one who indulges in a rich diet.
High living, a feeding upon rich, pampering food.
High Mass. (R. C. Ch.) See under Mass.
High milling, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.
High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian.
High place (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered.
High priest. See in the Vocabulary.
High relief. (Fine Arts) See Alto-rilievo.
High school. See under School.
High seas (Law), the open sea; the part of the ocean not in the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty, usually distant three miles or more from the coast line.
High steam, steam having a high pressure.
High steward, the chief steward.
High tea, tea with meats and extra relishes.
High tide, the greatest flow of the tide; high water.
High time.
(a)
Quite time; full time for the occasion.
(b)
A time of great excitement or enjoyment; a carousal. (Slang)
High treason, treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See Treason. Note: It is now sufficient to speak of high treason as treason simply, seeing that petty treason, as a distinct offense, has been abolished.
High water, the utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide; also, the time of such elevation.
High-water mark.
(a)
That line of the seashore to which the waters ordinarily reach at high water.
(b)
A mark showing the highest level reached by water in a river or other body of fresh water, as in time of freshet.
High-water shrub (Bot.), a composite shrub (Iva frutescens), growing in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
High wine, distilled spirits containing a high percentage of alcohol; usually in the plural.
To be on a high horse, to be on one's dignity; to bear one's self loftily. (Colloq.)
With a high hand.
(a)
With power; in force; triumphantly. "The children of Israel went out with a high hand."
(b)
In an overbearing manner, arbitrarily. "They governed the city with a high hand."
Synonyms: Tall; lofty; elevated; noble; exalted; supercilious; proud; violent; full; dear. See Tall.





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"High relief" Quotes from Famous Books



... everywhere merely incidental—both in life and on the stage. Make Elena dine with all the rest in the first act, let her sit and make jokes, or else there is very little of her, and she is not clear. Her avowal to Pyotr is too abrupt, on the stage it would come out in too high relief. Make her a passionate woman, if not loving at least apt ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... western pediment representing the birth of Minerva, and the other, on the eastern pediment, the contest between that goddess and Neptune for the possession of Attica. Under the outer cornice were ninety-two groups, raised in high relief from tablets about four feet square, representing the victories achieved by her companions. Round the inner frieze was presented the procession of the Parthenon on the grand quinquennial festival of the Panathenaea. The ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... ancient marbles of Squarcione's workshop even more than the pupil of Donatello, studies for his paintings not from Nature, but from sculpture; his figures are seen in strange projection and foreshortening, like figures in a high relief seen from below; despite his mastery of perspective, they seem hewn out of the background; despite the rich colours which he displays in his Veronese altar-piece, they look like painted marbles, with ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
... beside a hooded lamp that threw her grave, strong face into high relief, but only accentuated the shadows in the rest of the room. Avery sat close to the bed, not praying, scarcely thinking, waiting only for the opening of the Gates. And in that hour she longed,—oh, ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... Spanish immigrants of the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The molding of the projecting windows and arched doorway was richly carved, and upon the front of the building was an escutcheon wrought in high relief, though I could not make out the purport of the device. The moonlight falling upon this picturesque pile enhanced all its beauties, and at the same time made it seem like a vision that might dissolve away when the light ceased to shine. I must often have seen the ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne
... changing shadows, and then turned my eyes to the side of the throne. It was wonderful and difficult to believe but I really saw there the strong, muscular figure of a man with a swarthy face of stern and fixed expression about the mouth and jaws, thrown into high relief by the brightness of the eyes. Through his transparent body draped in white raiment I saw the Tibetan inscriptions on the back of the throne. I closed my eyes and opened them again. No one was there but the silk throne covering seemed ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... mouth trembled, and her yellow-green eyes gleamed as the man she loved pressed both her hands in his against his coat, until the high relief of the button was marked upon her skin, even through ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... then misty blue,—a darker blue, a deep blue dissolving into green, and the green outlining itself in emerald, with many a shade of lighter or darker green fretting its surface, throwing cliff and crest into high relief, and hinting at misty and mysterious vales, as fair as fathomless. It floated up like a cloud from the nether world, and was at first without form and void, even as its fellows were; but as we drew nearer—for we were steaming toward it across a sea of sapphire,—it brooded upon the face ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
... bad, and to it, and not to Kashmiri initiative, must be ascribed the production of such exotic works as bellows embellished with chaste designs of lotus-buds, and afternoon tea-tables flaunting coats-of-arms (doubtless dating from the Conquest), beautifully carved in high relief just where the tray—the bottom of which is probably ornamented with a flowing design of raised ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... for the grave of his mother, Mrs. Stephen P. Brown, who died last November. It is a most beautiful work of art and was much admired by those who saw it. It is a massive block of imported gray granite skillfully carved with clusters of grapes in high relief. Mr. Brown ordered it from the leading marble-cutters in Austin. The reverse side of the stone was cut after his own design, and consists simply of a Lone Star. On the base is the word Mother. Many of our citizens were enabled to inspect it as it went up Main Street, Mr. Jonas ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart


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