Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it's easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it's easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it's hard to really hit the ball.

French Athlete

Jimmy Scott

Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.

American Musician

Jim Bolger

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

New Zealander Statesman

Hermann von Helmholtz

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

German Physicist

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

German Poet

George Henry Lewes

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

English Philosopher

Hima Das

Everyone needs to support AFI. Since they are doing an excellent job, we need to reach greater heights.

Indian Athlete

Jesse White

Often when we reach great heights in life, we forget who brought us there. Well, I have not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Roman Statesman

Tommaso Ciampa

American Wrestler

Used to describe the vertical size of physical things you can see or touch.

Physical Objects

Use it to compare tallness visually without precise measurements.

Visual Comparison

Can imply a negative feeling or fear when referring to high places.

Physical Discomfort

Metaphorically expresses a sense of accomplishment or challenge.

Achievement Feeling

Used figuratively to describe a climax or best moment in someone's life.

Metaphorical Peak

Sometimes it can imply a high level of something negative.

Not Always Positive

Emphasizes the importance of context for a clear understanding of height.

Measurement Context

Suggests the need to be specific when providing height details.

Detail Specificity

In ballet, indicates a dancer's skill level with jumps.

Ballet Technique

Refers to the jump's quality, not the literal distance from the ground.

Not Literal Height

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 That means he can raise the bar so high that even when his center of mass can't go any higher, his arching body can. Fosbury's technique brought the high jump to new heights by splitting the jumper's body away from his center of mass, giving it that much more room

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 in the world it has taken hold here in China in a nation of a billion people competing for jobs and for each other height has become a critical condition for success if you lack the proper tallness you may be denied jobs at banks

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 oldest patches of rainforests in the world growing to a height of one and a half meters and equipped with enormous dinosaur like claws cassowaries have been described as the planet's most dangerous birds but these feathered

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 change in fortune this is now thought to be one of the densest leatherback nesting beaches in the world when we started at the height of the

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Height

How tall something is.

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A high place or area.

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The highest level or degree attainable.

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A specified distance from top to bottom or from base to top.

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This is a term used in ballet to describe the ability to achieve excellent elevation or lift off the ground.

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