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Definition of High-rise

1. Noun. Tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments. "`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'"

2. Adjective. Used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall. "Avenues lined with high-rise apartment buildings"

Definition of High-rise

1. Noun. A tall building, one of many stories. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of High-rise

high-pitch high-pitched high-potential high-power high-powered high-pressure high-pressure liquid chromatography high-priced high-principled high-profile

high-protein diet high-ranking high-resolution high-resolution banding high-resolution imaging high-rise (current term) high-riser high-risers high-rises high-risk

high-roller high-score table high-score tables high-season high-sighted high-sounding high-speed high-speed steel high-spirited high-spiritedness

Literary usage of High-rise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Site Planning for Solar Access: A Guidebook for Residential Developers and by Duncan Erley, Martin Jaffe (1997)
"... to Multifamily Housing Site Planning Multifamily Housing as Large-Area Uses Siting Strategies for High-Rise Housing Planning Open Space Using Open Space ..."

2. Adventure Guide to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao by Lynne M. Sullivan (2002)
"Palm Beach High-Rise Resorts The following multi-story beachside resorts are the most elegant on the island. Each tries to outdo the other with dazzling ..."

3. Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards (1993)
"For high-rise construction (8+ stories), this is modified by a high-rise Performance Modification Factor (PMF). This high-rise PMF is a function of building ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"The second high rise in temperature should be looked for about this time. ... We have a third high rise and usually a fourth, the intervals becoming shorter ..."

5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"... called "Great Tom," weighing over five tons, while the two western towers, each 206 feet high, rise nobly above the elaborate screen on the west front. ..."

6. A Primer of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1892)
"For ordinary purposes it is enough to distinguish between a high rise (') and ... A high rise may be heard in what ? as an expression of mere enquiry ('ojo) ..."

7. The European Office: office design and national context by Juriaan van Meel (2000)
"Typical for the Dutch context is that the bank chose a high-rise structure (105 ml not so much to capitalise on the value of the land, but rather to create ..."

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