Skin : adj., noun et adv. (word from latin altus, crossed with Frankish hoh, a Germanic word originally from German hoch and English high).
The word "high" has many meanings:
I) Adjective
A. Indicates the vertical dimension.
1. Which is of a certain dimension in the vertical direction.
Two meter high wall.
As wide as it is tall.
Locutuion: High as three apples, very small (child).
Tapestry of high warp.
2. Which is, in the vertical sense, of a considerable dimension, compared to beings or objects of the same species.
High mountains (high, tall).
Tall grass.
A fairly tall tower. Rooms with high ceilings.
Phrase: Blast furnace (blast furnace).
Tall man. Up front.
High heels (opposite to flat).
Un bird leggy.
B. Indicates vertical position
1. Which is placed or carried above the normal or usual position (erect, lifted).
Phrase: Walk with head held high, forehead held high.
To hold the dragee high, the bridle* high to someone.
To have the upper hand in a matter, to have the authority, the preponderant part. He has the upper hand in the company: he controls everything.
Sport: High guard.
High-flying birds. Figuratively. High-flying, high-flying crook.
Maritime: Flag high.
High water period. High tide (open sea). The high seas.
2. Which is located above, in relation to things of the same kind, or in relation to the rest of the thing.
High place. Highlands.
The highest (culminating) point. He annoys me to no end.
The top step of the podium.
Male noun (neuter superlative): A star at its highest point (apogee, zenith).
Glory to God in the highest.
The upper town: the upper part of the city.
Upper Egypt, the upper Seine (regions farthest from the sea or closest to the source, sometimes opposed to low).
Note: In the names of administrative or political entities, the adjective is capitalized and followed by a hyphen: department of Hautes-Alpes; Upper Austria.
3. In time (before the name) Which is near the origin, the source (old, distant, remote).
Custom of the highest antiquity. The High Middle Ages. High period furniture, from the Middle Ages to the XNUMXth century.
4. On the scale of degrees of intensity: strong, great, intense.
High pressure. High frequency.
High tension.
Phrases: Hard fought. High Color.
On the scale, the register of sounds: acute, elevated. High tone, high notes.
On the scale of the degrees of power of the voice: bright, loud, resounding, sonorous.
Loud and intelligible voice.
Read loudly.
Scream loudly. To have the verb high. Never one word higher than the other.
5. On the scale of prices, listed values: Prices are high. The dollar is high.
High salaries, high incomes (big).
A high yield (high) investment.
Game: High cards, those which have the most value, which outweigh the others (high).
C. Placed before the noun: abstract things
1. In order of power, on the social and political scale: eminent, great, important.
Senior officials.
High finance.
The upper middle class. The upper echelons: the governing bodies.
In high places.
High society, and elliptical nf fam. : the high-society.
Upper House: The House of Lords of the British Parliament.
Honorary title: High and mighty lord.
Male noun: The Most High: God.
Diplomacy: The high contracting powers. The High Assembly. High Court of Justice, or High Court.
2.Who occupies a position clearly above the average on the scale of difficulties, intellectual values, aesthetics (higher).
High intelligence.
High mathematics. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
School of Advanced Business Studies (HEC).
High school exercise, high aerobatics.
Top athlete.
High fashion. High style.
In the moral order: Achievements (heroic).
3. Very large (extreme).
To hold someone in high esteem.
Communication of utmost importance.
to have, to give, to think highly of someone, something
He has a high opinion of himself (exaggerated).
Pretensions of the highest comic. High precision instrument.
High fidelity.
High definition television (HDTV).
Broadband Internet access.
A high risk business.
High treason.
Under high surveillance.
High Security Quarter (QHS).
Meaning aged: The high evil: epilepsy.
II) Masculine name
1. Dimension in the vertical direction, from base to top (height).
The Eiffel Tower is three hundred and thirty meters high (with antennas).
2 Determined position on the vertical. The plane is flying at a thousand meters high (altitude).
With de, du: Fall from the top of the fifth floor. Fall from (all) its height, from its full height.
Figurative and aged meaning experience extreme surprise (see below III, C, 1°).
3. Part, upper region of a thing. Objects drawn at the top of a table. The top drawer. Crate marked: top and bottom.
Music: The top: the high notes.
The top of a dress, the part above the waist (bodice).
I'm looking for a top to match this skirt. The top of a swimsuit: the bra of a two-piece. Take off the top.
4. a highest part, the highest point (summit).
Perched on top of a tree (crown).
Figurative meaning: Getting out (of a delicate situation) from above: reaching a solution that is honorable for all parties.
Hold the top of the pad.
The high end.
from the top of: from the top. Talk from the top of the rostrum.
Roll from the top of a staircase.
Figurative meaning: To treat, to judge someone from the height of his greatness.
From (from) top to bottom. Clean, visit a house from top to bottom (completely, everywhere; from the cellar to the attic, from top to bottom).
From top to bottom of the hierarchy.
5. Especially: Ups and downs.
6. Aged or regional sense. High ground (mound, eminence, height).
Department of Hauts-de-Seine.
“Les Hauts de Hurlevent”, French title of a novel by the British novelist Emily Brontë (1818-1848).
III) Adverb value
A Adj. used as adv.
1 (In a command) In a high position. Hands up ! (Hands in the air !).
Cheer up! Cheer up!
Adverbial phrase: hands down: brilliantly, easily overcoming all obstacles. Take it hands down.
2. A deadhead locomotive that travels without being coupled to a train.
B. Adverb.
1. In one place, a high point on the vertical. Climb, jump, fly high, higher.
Hold, lift high, higher (elevate, hoist, mount).
Setting the bar too high.
Hang someone up and down.
Familiar: Farting higher than your ass.
High perched.
2. At a remote (distant) point in time.
To go back higher, to take things from higher up, from the origin of the facts.
Above: previously (in the order of a writing) (above, supra).
See above.
3. Intensity: Out loud, in a loud voice (loud).
Speak loud (and loud).
Read aloud.
Think aloud: soliloquy.
Without fear of being heard, bluntly. ➙ frankly, loudly, openly, publicly. I will say it loud and clear, if necessary.
Speak loud and clear.
Phrase: Saying out loud what everyone is thinking in a whisper.
Rise high (in the register of sounds): reach high, high notes. This instrument rises an octave higher.
4. High in power, high up the social ladder. People in high places.
He aims too high: he is too ambitious.
5. High on the scale of prices, values. The bids are mounted very high.
6. High on the scale of intellectual, aesthetic, moral values.
Colloquial phrase: It does not fly high (It flies low, level with the daisies).
C. Adverbial phrase:
1. From above: from a place, from a high point on the vertical. See something high.
Figurative: Falling from above: experiencing serious disappointments, serious setbacks.
To see things from above, from a general and serene view (from afar).
Take it from high, very high: react with arrogance.
Look down on, treat someone with disdain (haughty).
2. Top: in the region, the upper part, the highest.
Head down, feet up.
Vest buttoned up.
All the way up: at the highest point.
From above: from above.
Go through the top.
Heading up.
Look up.
Movement from bottom to top.
Excerpt from the song L'Accordéoniste by the French singer Édit Piaf (1915-1963):
She listens to java
But she don't dance it
She don't even look at the track
And her loving eyes
Follow the nervous game
And the dry and long fingers of the artist
It gets under his skin
From below, from above
She wants to sing
It's physical
His whole being is tense
His breath is suspended
It's a real twisted music
3. Phrase prep. : on top of : at the top of.
Lantern at the top of the mast. Double at the top of the hill. Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
4. From above: from the upper part, from the upper region.
The light comes from above.
From above, you can see the sea.
Figurative: From heaven, from God.
From a higher authority, from the top of the hierarchy. Orders from above.
France from above: the ruling classes, the wealthy.
5. Up there (there).
Opposites of high: low, small, recent, weak, modest.
Bottom, base, bottom.
Near, recently. Infra.