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the one number that gives you a head start before you say a word
means How tall or high something is — the measurement from bottom to top, or the distance above a reference point.
from From Old English hēahþu, built on hēah meaning 'high' (the same root that still lives in 'high' today) plus a noun-forming suffix. The Germanic family kept the pattern — Old Norse had hæð — and the spelling wobbled for centuries between forms like 'highth' before settling on 'height,' which is why it stubbornly refuses to rhyme with the 'eight' it appears to contain.
- daily shrink
- You lose up to a centimeter while awake
- space stretch
- Astronauts grow taller in zero gravity
- tallest ever
- Robert Wadlow reached 8 feet 11 inches
- pay gap
- Taller people statistically earn more money
- morning peak
- You stand tallest right after waking up
mount everest — tallest mountain on earth at 29,032 feet above sea level
burj khalifa — tallest building in the world at 2,717 feet in dubai, completed 2010
robert wadlow — tallest person ever recorded at 8 feet 11.1 inches, died 1940