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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

height / hīt/ • n. 1. the measurement from base to top or (of a standing person) from head to foot: columns rising to 65 feet in height | both men were of average height. ∎ elevation above ground or a recognized level (typically sea level): the glider is gaining height. ∎ the quality of being tall or high: his height seems to work to his advantage. 2. a high place or area: he's terrified of heights. 3. the most intense part or period of something: the height of the tourist season at the height of his career | they took consumerism to new heights. ∎ an extreme instance or example of something: it would be the height of bad manners not to attend the wedding.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

height OE. hēhðu (WS. hīehðu) = MDu. hogede, hoochte (Du. hoogte), OHG. hōhida, Goth. hauhiþa :- Gmc. *χauχiþō; see HIGH, -TH1. Dissimilation of -hþ (-ʒþ) to -ht (-ʒt), orig. northern, appears before 1300.
Hence heighten XVI.

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A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

height
1. of a node in a tree. The length of a longest path from the node to a leaf node.

2. of a tree. The maximum height of any node in a tree. The height of a given tree will have the same numerical value as the depth of that tree.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

height •affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, shite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write •Shiite • Trotskyite • McCarthyite •Vishnuite • Sivaite • albite •snakebite • frostbite • soundbite •kilobyte • columbite • love bite •Moabite • megabyte • gigabyte •Jacobite • Rechabite • jadeite •lyddite • expedite • cordite • erudite •Luddite • recondite • troglodyte •hermaphrodite • extradite

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	Glendale Heights urges solidarity in waste station fight.(News) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 11/21/1996
	Height and Cancer Risk.(Clinical report) Newspaper article from: Clinical Oncology Alert; 11/1/2011
	Height as a basis for interpersonal attraction. Magazine article from: Adolescence; 6/22/1994