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  • 101flying — 1 adjective / flaI IN / 1 with flying colours if you pass a test with flying colours, you are very successful in it 2 a flying visit a quick visit because you are in a hurry : They ve been down here for a flying visit. 3 a flying jump/leap a long …

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  • 102Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 — Infobox Airliner accident|name=Flying Tiger Flight 282 Date=December 24, 1964 Type=Pilot error Site=San Bruno, California, USA Fatalities=3 Injuries=0 Aircraft Type=Constellation Operator=Flying Tiger Tail Number=N6915C Passengers=0 Crew=3… …

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  • 103Flying Colours — For the album by Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso, see Flying Colours (album); for the album by Canadian band Trooper, see Flying Colors (Trooper album); for the album by Robert Ellis Orrall, see Flying Colors (Robert Ellis Orrall album).… …

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  • 104High-temperature superconductivity — Unsolved problems in physics What causes superconductivity at temperatures above 50 kelvin? High temperature superconductors (abbreviated high Tc or HTS) are materials that have a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) above 30 K… …

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  • 105high — /huy/, adj., higher, highest, adv., higher, highest, n. adj. 1. having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall. 2. having a specified extent upward: The apple tree is now 20 feet high. 3. situated… …

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  • 106high — high1 [ haı ] adjective *** ▸ 1 being a long way up ▸ 2 large in amount ▸ 3 very good/excellent ▸ 4 important ▸ 5 happy/excited ▸ 6 about sounds ▸ 7 winds: very strong ▸ 8 best/most extreme ▸ 9 far from equator ▸ 10 with strong flavor/smell ▸ +… …

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  • 107high — 1 /haI/ adjective MEASUREMENT/DISTANCE 1 FROM BOTTOM TO TOP something that is high measures a long distance from its bottom to its top: the highest mountain in Japan | a castle surrounded by high walls | 100 feet/30 metres etc high: a building 20 …

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  • 108high — I UK [haɪ] / US adjective Word forms high : adjective high comparative higher superlative highest *** Collocations: High is used for talking about things that are a long way from the ground, or about things whose top parts are a long way from the …

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  • 109high*/*/*/ — [haɪ] adj I 1) large in size from the top to the ground Ant: low Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa.[/ex] The fence is too high to climb over.[/ex] 2) in a position that is a long way above the ground Ant: low high clouds[/ex] the… …

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  • 110High-Definition Multimedia Interface — Infobox connector name=High Definition Multimedia Interface type=Digital audio/video connector logo= caption=HDMI cable and HDMI official logo designer=HDMI Founders design date=December 2002 manufacturer=HDMI Adopters production date=2003… …

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