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 Translation for 'high up' from English to Icelandic
SYNO high | high up
ofarlega {adv}high up
Partial Matches
víma {kv}high
hár {adj} {adv}high
fatn.
upphár {adj}
high
hágæða {adj}high-quality
annir {kv.ft}high workload
annatími {k}high season
hámenning {kv}high culture
hámenning {kv}high civilization
viðbragðsstaða {kv}high alert
háfjall {hv}high mountain
landbún.
nythár {adj}
high-yielding
allhár {adj}quite high
hásumar {hv}high summer
íþr.
þverslá {kv} [fimleikar]
high bar
bibl.trúarbr.
æðstiprestur {k}
high priest
saga
háaðall {k}
high nobility
skip
flóð {hv}
high tide
mennt.
framhaldsskóli {k}
high school
landráð {hv}high treason
íþr.
hástökk {hv}
high jump
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Usage Examples English
  • The church stands high up on Warhill overlooking the village.
  • Almost all sections of the river have been paddled by kayakers and canoeists: from the whitewater sections high up on the moor, all the way down to the estuary.
  • It leaves the A629 at Cross Roads and stays quite high up on the east side of the valley, bypassing the village of Haworth and eventually descending into Oxenhope, before going south east over Oxenhope Moor to Hebden Bridge.
  • Anselmo states that he jumped off a bar stool to get high up in the air and that it took him about ten takes until the cameramen got the shot of the desired style.
  • To the West, Glacier Lodge Road leads high up Big Pine Creek into the Sierra, to lakes, hiking trails, fishing, and rock climbing underneath the Palisades Range and the Palisade Glacier.

  • Diplodocids like "Apatosaurus" are often portrayed with their necks held high up in the air, allowing them to browse on tall trees.
  • The IBM Corporation had a popular pavilion, where a giant 500-seat grandstand called the "People Wall" was pushed by hydraulic rams high up into an ellipsoidal theater designed by Eero Saarinen.
  • The Efik originally believed that Abasi was too high up in the heavens and was unbothered by the affairs of man.
  • From "zaqārum", to be high up. The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat built by King Ur-Nammu, who dedicated it in honor of Nanna/Sîn in approximately the 21st century BC during the Third Dynasty of Ur.
  • The Willis Tower has an observation deck open to tourists year round with high up views overlooking Chicago and Lake Michigan.

  • Michelangelo created a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall, high up near the top of the windows.
  • Under the council's control there has been much imaginative new planting too, "The trees are laid out alphabetically, with Acer and Betula at the lower east end and Ulmus and Zelkova high up to the west"., and on the lawns behind the House is a gigantic Blue Atlas Cedar with several slighter companions.
  • In Valiant (comics) #171 (January 8, 1966), the two boys from Worrag island in "The Wild Wonders" in a circus story, jump from high up and seem ready to crash to their deaths, but are stopped by elasticated ropes tied to an ankle of each one.
  • On 4 September, a tradition of walking barefoot from Palermo up to the Sanctuary of Santa Rosalia high up on Mount Pellegrino is observed in honor of Rosalia.
  • This is a display area for the abbey's treasures in the galleries high up around the sanctuary.

  • On 10 and 11 May 1996, eight climbers died after several guided expeditions were caught in a blizzard high up on the mountain during a summit attempt on 10 May.
  • In August 2019, astronomers led by Yeon Joo Lee reported that long-term pattern of absorbance and albedo changes in the atmosphere of the planet Venus caused by "unknown absorbers", which may be chemicals or even large colonies of microorganisms high up in the atmosphere of the planet, affect the climate.
  • His short story "The Mattress by the Tomato Patch" (1954) is set near Santa Monica Beach and mentions the clock visible in much of the city, high up on The Broadway Building, on Broadway near Second Street.
  • In shooting the scene in which Carter throws Brumby to his death from the multi-storey car park, Hodges used four shots: one of the pair struggling high up on the stairs; one from the lowest level of the stairwell where Caine actually threw Bryan Mosley over the side onto mattresses; one shot of a dummy falling; and one of the body of Brumby on top of a crushed car.
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