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High
can refer to a number of different things:
Physical place above something, in
altitude
or
elevation
.
A large
number
or percentage of a certain item, such as a high
unemployment
figure.
It can refer to the state of a person being
intoxicated
by
drugs
.
A
meteorological
high pressure area
, a region where the
atmospheric pressure
is greatest with relation to the surrounding area.
Also, it can refer to the wealthy or purportedly more sophisticated part of a culture, for example, "high society ".
A shortened form of
high school
, as in
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
.
"The High" is the
High Museum of Art
at the
Woodruff Arts Center
in
Atlanta, Georgia
.
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