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definition of high

The number of uses that the word admits is really important high and therefore the contexts in which we can find this popular term in the Spanish language are varied.

The most widespread sense is that which allows to account for the great stature and height of an individual, a building, a piece of land, an area, among others. Tomás is taller than his brother; they are building a tall tower in front of my building that will block all free vision; his house is in a high area that is not threatened by floods, fortunately.

Secondly, when something is presented erect, raised, it is spoken in terms of high. The heads held high from the spectators ahead block much of my vision on the stage..

Another highly recurrent use in everyday language of the word alto allows us to express what expensive or the high price of a good, a service, among others. The prices of all types of footwear are very high, I cannot access any with the budget I have..

Also, when something stands out for its advanced state, or because it turns out to be very complex to access, understand, or because of its excellence, the use of the word alto is frequent to refer to such situations.

In the field of musical interpretation, the height is a type of voice that is located below the treble voice and above the tenor.

And in the European country Italy, Alto is the name given to a Italian town and commune corresponding to the province of Cuneo, appointment in the Piedmont region and that it presents a little more than one hundred inhabitants.

It should be noted that the word alto is part of many popular expressions which are widely used in our language: stop some action (cut the activity that is carried out); high! (an emphatic expression that requires someone to stop in their tracks or what they are doing); Stop the fire (very common order to demand that a troop or a security agent stop the shooting); chop high (to have important aspirations in life); aloft (has a certain distance from the ground); ignore (to ignore, to shut up); and in style (luxury, magnificence).

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