HIGH AND LOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high and low mean? 

• HIGH AND LOW (adverb)
  The adverb HIGH AND LOW has 1 sense:

1. everywhere

  Familiarity information: HIGH AND LOW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH AND LOW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Everywhere

Context example:

searched high and low

 Context examples 

But, as the results of this study indicate, the effectiveness of this intervention will vary between high and low income groups and is likely to vary between males and females.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Beat high and low among the heather, and a pot of wine to the lucky marksman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the next step of the study, the authors revealed similar trends, with participants whose overall diets were high and low in carbohydrates having a shorter life expectancy than those with moderate consumption.

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Sun has long been known to go through eleven-year cycles of high and low activity, including sunspots, which Strugarek likened to solar volcanoes.

(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)

By tracking 'gators, the ecologists determined that alligators remain in marine habitats for longer periods around spring tides — tides just after a full or new moon, when there's the greatest difference between high and low water. (In contrast, neap tides occur just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when there is the least change between high and low water.)

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

Upon administration of MM-151, the three antibodies bind to distinct, non-overlapping epitopes of EGFR, thereby preventing the binding of a full range of both high and low affinity EGFR ligands and inhibiting EGFR-ERK-mediated signaling.

(Anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibody Mixture MM-151, NCI Thesaurus)

As to the first, you are to understand, that for about seventy moons past there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels of their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)