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Collocations for high - noun

1. high level or point

ADJECTIVE

all-time, historic, new, record
The number of prisoners has reached a historic high.
previous
five-year, ten-year, etc.
career
He hit a career high with his performance as Al.

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VERB + high

hit, reach
Share prices reached an all-time high yesterday.

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2. feeling of great pleasure or happiness

ADJECTIVE

real, tremendous
emotional
natural
He was still on a natural high after cheating death.
adrenalin, caffeine

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VERB + high

experience, get
the high she got from her job
give sb
The drug gives you a tremendous high.

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PREPOSITION

on a high
She's been on a real high since she got her exam results.
We want to finish on a high.

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PHRASES

the highs and lows
the emotional highs and lows of an actor's life

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Collocations for high - adj.

High is used with these nouns:
ability, abundance, accolade, accuracy, achievement, aim, alert, altar, altitude, ambition, amount, arc, art, aspiration, ball, beam, bid, bill, blood pressure, boot, bracket, bridge, buzz, capacity, caste, casualty, category, ceiling, chance, charge, cheekbone, chimney, cholesterol, church, circle, cliff, cloud, collar, colour, comedy, command, commission, commissioner, concentration, confidence, consumption, content, correlation, cost, count, credibility, culture, cupboard, current, debt, degree, demand, density, desert, diversity, dividend, division, dosage, dose, drama, duty, earnings, effectiveness, efficiency, employment, end, enrolment, esteem, estimate, excitement, expectation, expenditure, expense, explosive, exposure, fare, fashion, fat, favour, fee, fence, fever, figure, finance, forehead, frequency, gate, gear, gloss, grade, ground, growth, heat, hedge, heel, hill, honour, hope, humidity, hurdle, ideal, impact, importance, incidence, income, index, indignation, inflation, intake, integrity, intelligence, intensity, investment, jump, key, kick, latitude, ledge, level, likelihood, load, maintenance, margin, mark, mileage, moral, morale, mortality, motivation, motive, mound, mountain, neck, noon, note, number, occurrence, odds, offer, office, opinion, orbit, output, pass, pay, peak, penetration, percentage, performance, pitch, plateau, platform, point, position, post, potential, prairie, praise, precision, premium, pressure, prestige, price, priest, principle, priority, probability, productivity, proficiency, profile, profit, profitability, proportion, purity, quality, rainfall, rank, rate, rating, ratio, reading, recommendation, regard, register, reliability, relief, rent, reputation, resistance, resolution, respect, return, rev, reward, risk, river, road, room, salary, sale, school, score, season, sensitivity, seriousness, setting, shelf, society, sound, specification, speed, speed limit, spending, spot, squeak, stake, standard, standing, status, stock, stool, street, strength, stress, sum, summer, summit, sun, table, tackle, target, tariff, tax, taxation, tea, technology, temperature, tenor, tension, threshold, tide, tolerance, toll, total, tower, treason, tree, turnout, turnover, uncertainty, unemployment, usage, utility, valley, valuation, value, variability, velocity, visibility, voice, voltage, volume, wage, waist, waistline, wall, wastage, waterfall, whine, whistle, wind, wire, yield

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Collocations for high - adv.

High is used with these adjectives:
overhead

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High is used with these verbs:
bounce, climb, fly, leap, rank, soar

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