| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | major discussion of issues |
| Synonyms: | conference at the summit, high-level talk, summit, summit conference, summitry |
| Main Entry: | mucro |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point |
| Synonyms: | acicula, acumination, apex, awn, barb, beak, bill, cape, claw, cusp, dagger, foreland, head, headland, jag, mucronation, nib, pin point, prick, prickler, promontory, prong, snag, spike, spine, spire, spur, sticker, stiletto, summit, sword, thorn, tine, tip, tooth |
| Main Entry: | mucronation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point |
| Synonyms: | acicula, acumination, apex, awn, barb, beak, bill, cape, claw, cusp, dagger, foreland, head, headland, jag, mucro, nib, pin point, prick, prickler, promontory, prong, snag, spike, spine, spire, spur, sticker, stiletto, summit, sword, thorn, tine, tip, tooth |
| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aerial, alpine, altitudinarian, altitudinous, altivolant, attolent, beetling, bird's, cloud, elevated, eminent, exalted, gigantic, hanging, heaven, highest, hilly, incumbent, lanky, lofty, moorland, mountainous, overhanging, overlying, patagonian, prominent, rampant, soaring, stilted, sub, superincumbent, superior, supernatant, tall, tall as a Maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, terraced, towering, upland, upper
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| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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| Concept: | Height. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; sublimity., tallness; stature, procerity; prominence., colussus (size); giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard., mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights (summit), [more]; knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height, dizzying height., tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola., pole, pikstaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast., ceiling (covering)., high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide., altimetry (angel); batophobia.
-verbs
be high; tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop (be superior); stand on tiptoe., become high; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise (ascend)., render high; heighten (elevate).
-adjectives
high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated; upper; highest (topmost); high reaching, insessorial, perching., upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial., overhanging ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent., tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple; lanky (thin).
-adverbs
on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high., over, upwards; from top to bottom (completely).
-phrases
e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto ["It is better to fall from the window than from the roof" (Italian)].
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| Antonyms: | lowness |
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