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HIGH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high up mean? 

HIGH UP (adverb)
  The adverb HIGH UP has 1 sense:

1. at a great altitudeplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH UP used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH UP (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

At a great altitude

Synonyms:

high; high up

Context example:

he climbed high on the ladder


 Context examples 


In 2014, also suggesting multicellular life could exist on Mars, they studied some lichens, including Pleopsidium chlorophanum, which can grow high up in Antarctic mountain ranges.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If there had been one mast standing, something high up to which to fasten blocks and tackles!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As we peered from the darkened sitting-room of the lodging-house, one more dim light glimmered high up through the obscurity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

High up above our heads, amid the dark shadows, there was one circle of deeper gloom.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All they could see was a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The black man sprang high up into the air, and shot out both his arms and his legs, coming down all a-sprawl among the heather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Human cooperation is crucial to honeyguides because bees’ nests are often hidden in inaccessible crevices high up in trees – and honeybees sting ferociously.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There was a sudden swirl in the crowd, a rush, a shout, and high up in the air there spun an old black hat, floating over the heads of the ring-siders and flickering down within the ropes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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