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IN HEIGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a specified height
Example:
five feet in height
Classified under:
Similar:
tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)
Context examples:
Six foot three in height, active as a squirrel, dexterous with his fingers, finally, remarkably quick-witted, for this whole ingenious story is of his concoction.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the other side, Spade-beard, a dwarf in height, but of great breadth of shoulder and length of arm, had cut a road almost to the mast, with three-score Genoese men-at-arms close at his heels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The ground-based shape model calculated this boulder to be at least 33 feet (10 meters) in height.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the two following years of more abundant snow and rainfall, the mountains have regained about half as much water in the rock as they had lost in the preceding drought and have fallen about half an inch (12 millimeters) in height.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
On discussing the situation, we determined that our best course was to continue to coast round the plateau in the hope of finding some other means of reaching the top. The line of cliffs, which had decreased considerably in height, had already begun to trend from west to north, and if we could take this as representing the arc of a circle, the whole circumference could not be very great.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
