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# height

«height» in Mova's school dictionary: **how tall a person or thing is, from the bottom to the top** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (height, heights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Height is how tall a person or thing is, from the bottom to the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#m1)

2) Height is how high something is above the ground, like a plane flying at a great height. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#m2)

3) The height of something is its strongest or busiest point, like the height of summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#m3)

4) Heights are high places: someone afraid of heights does not like being up high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

A length measured upward; compared, added, or one side of a shape or box. In science: measure the height of a plant each week; height of a triangle for its area. In everyday life: a height chart on the wall, rides with a height limit. Phrases: «in height», «the height of», «afraid of heights», «height limit».

### examples

- The height of the tree is 6 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x1)
- Tom's height is 130 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x2)
- A box has length 4, width 3 and height 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x3)
- Who has the greater height? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x4)
- You must be 120 cm in height to go on this ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x5)
- We marked my height on the kitchen door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x6)
- The plane flew at a height of 10 kilometres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x7)
- My sister is afraid of heights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x8)
- How magnificent was the sight from this height! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/#x9)

### note

A length (cm, m), so it is compared or added like other lengths; with length and width it gives volume (l × w × h). Trap: compare heights in the same unit. Spelling: height ends in -ght but rhymes with «kite» (not like «eight»). Adjective: high, tall.

### In the corpora

- [A gull drops a shellfish onto rocks from a height to smash the shell open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/11/)
- [«Height» shares e-i-g-h with «weight», though it sounds like /ite/.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/11/)
- [Falling from more than about your own height onto a hard surface can break bones or injure your head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/19/)
- [Landing from a big height on straight legs can break ankles, legs or the spine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/21/)
- [Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is easier than guessing a number.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «height» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/height/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.