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 Translation for 'high point' from English to French
NOUN   a high point | high points
zénith {m}high point
point {m} culminant [de réunion, vacances, soirée, spectacle]high point
Partial Matches
point {m}point
5
grand {adj}high
haut {adj} {adv}high
29
extrémité {f} [d'aiguille]point
élevé {adj}high
point {m} névralgiquesensitive point
gratin {m} [fam.] [fig.] [élite]high society
lieu {m} de regroupementmeeting point
chasse
affut {m} perché [aussi : affût]
high seat
position {f} élevéevantage point
despotiquement {adv}high-handedly
despotique {adj}high-handed
sport
plongeur {m} de haut vol
high diver
brisant {adj}high-explosive
extravagant {adj} [ambition]high-flying
point {m} de basculementtipping point
hydro.naut.
marée {f} haute
high tide
mil.
haut commandement {m}
high command
arch.arts
haut-relief {m}
high relief
point {m} de mire [fig.]focal point
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Usage Examples English
  • The total population reached a high point of perhaps 5,000, and developed independent institutions before disappearing by 1500.
  • Though he provided his clients with genuine prints as replacements for those he was accused of retouching, it marked the end of the high point of his career as an art dealer.
  • The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry "reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached" and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art (as in the urn pictured above).
  • Eastern Christian culture reached its golden age during the high point of the Byzantine Empire and continued to flourish in Ukraine and Russia, after the fall of Constantinople.
  • Choristoderes, a group of freshwater aquatic reptiles that first appeared during the preceding Jurassic, underwent a major evolutionary radiation in Asia during the Early Cretaceous, which represents the high point of choristoderan diversity, including long necked forms such as "Hyphalosaurus" and the first records of the gharial-like Neochoristodera, which appear to have evolved in the regional absence of aquatic neosuchian crocodyliformes.

  • "AllMusic" declared the album to be the high point of Tyler's early career, "and a dynamite showcase for Tyler's inimitable voice".
  • The higher land on either side of the valley – the Western Heights and the eastern high point on which Dover Castle stands – has been adapted to perform the function of protection against invaders.
  • His reign also saw the high point of Protestantism in Austria and Bohemia and unlike his successors, Maximilian did not try to suppress it.
  • The opera was first performed on 3 January 1843 by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris with great success and it is generally regarded as being the high point of the 19th century "opera buffa" tradition and, in fact, marking its ending.
  • Westminster has shed the abject poverty with the clearance of this slum and with drainage improvement, but there is a typical Central London property distinction within the area which is very acute, epitomised by grandiose 21st-century developments, architectural high-point listed buildings and nearby social housing (mostly non-council housing) buildings of the Peabody Trust founded by philanthropist George Peabody.

  • In Song dynasty China and the classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical Chinese civilization, science and technology, and classical Islamic science, philosophy, technology and literature.
  • The Cossacks established an independent society and popularized a new kind of epic poem, which marked a high point of Ukrainian oral literature.
  • In the early 21st century Plymouth Hoe became notorious for the practice of tombstoning, which involves leaping feet-first into the sea from any accessible high point.
  • There are also two motocross race tracks that host a round of the AMA Toyota Motocross Championships in Pennsylvania. High Point Raceway is located in Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, and Steel City is located in Delmont, Pennsylvania.
  • In 1849, the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, High Point, and Charlotte.

  • The Melbourne Games also saw the high point of Australian female sprinting with Betty Cuthbert winning three gold medals at the MCG.
  • The state's high point is Eagle Mountain at 2,301 feet (701 [...] m), which is only [...] away from the low point of 601 feet (183 [...] m) at the shore of Lake Superior.
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