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Definition of High and low
1. Adverb. Everywhere. "Searched high and low"
Definition of High and low
1. Adverb. everywhere ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High And Low
Literary usage of High and low
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The program, which had positive results for both low-and high-risk students, was
equally successful in schools with high and low minority enrollment. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"685. difference in the development of the testes or other internal sexual organs
could be detected in high and low males respectively. ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"289), the lands were situated upon a navigable river far above the tidal influence,
and high and low water marks were determined, not by the action of the ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"In fact, both these high- and low-spin species are present together in solution
in inert solvents. Until 1965 the problem of the spin multiplicity of the ..."
5. Elements of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1866)
"The terms "high and low wages," are often used ambiguously; some meaning by the
words, a high or low nominal rate; others, a high or low degree of comforts ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The title between high and low water mark can pass to an individual only by express
... The shore of the sea and of its bays and Inlets between high and low ..."
7. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... representing Reflective Tendency or Intellectual Motive—On its Instinctive
Side by High and Low Key—What each represents—On its Reflective, by Rising, ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... as also the high and low tides of the sea, are but so many corollaries from
this unique hypothesis: two bodies, whatever their origin or nature, ..."
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