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hight

1  [hahyt]
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–adjective
Archaic. called or named: Childe Harold was he hight.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE heht, reduplicated preterit of hātan to name, call, promise, command (c. G heissen to call, be called, mean); akin to behest

hight

2  [hahyt]
–noun
height.

height

  [hahyt]
–noun
1. extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet.
2. distance upward from a given level to a fixed point: the height from the ground to the first floor; the height of an animal at the shoulder.
3. the distance between the lowest and highest points of a person standing upright; stature: She is five feet in height.
4. considerable or great altitude or elevation: the height of the mountains.
5. Often, heights.
a. a high place above a level; a hill or mountain: They stood on the heights overlooking the valley.
b. the highest part; top; apex; summit: In his dreams he reached the heights.
6. the highest point; utmost degree: the height of power; the height of pleasure.
7. Archaic. high rank in social status.
Also, hight.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hīehtho. See high, -th 1

Synonyms:
3. tallness. Height, altitude, elevation refer to distance above a level. Height denotes extent upward (as from foot to head) as well as any measurable distance above a given level: The tree grew to a height of ten feet. They looked down from a great height. Altitude usually refers to the distance, determined by instruments, above a given level, commonly mean sea level: altitude of an airplane. Elevation implies a distance to which something has been raised or uplifted above a level: a hill's elevation above the surrounding country, above sea level. 5. prominence. 6. peak, pinnacle; acme, zenith; culmination.

Antonyms:
1, 2. depth.

Usage note:
Height, and not heighth, is considered the standard English form for this word.
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hight   (hīt)   
adj.   Archaic
Named or called.

[Middle English, past participle of highten, hihten, to call, be called, from hehte, hight, past tense of hoten, from Old English hātan; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

height 
O.E. hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit," from root of heah "high" + -itha Gmc. abstract noun suffix (cf. O.N. hæð, O.H.G. hohida, Goth. hauhiþa "height"). The modern pronunciation with -t not established till 18c., and heighth is still colloquial.

hight  (v.)
"named, called" (archaic), M.E. highte, from O.E. hatte "I am called" (passive of hatan "to call, name, command") merged with heht "called," active past tense of the same verb. Hatte was the only survival in O.E. of the old Gmc. synthetic passive tense. It is related to O.N. heita, Du. heten, Ger. heißen, Goth. haitan "to call, be called, command" (see cite).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: height
Pronunciation: 'hIt, 'hItth
Function: noun
: the distance from the bottom to the top of something standing upright; especially : the distance from the lowest to the highest point of an animal body especially of a human being in a natural standing position or from the lowest point to an arbitrarily chosen upper pointheight> height at the shoulder>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

height (hīt)
n.

  1. The distance from the base of something to the top.

  2. Stature, especially of the human body.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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