HIGH-LEVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-level mean? 

• HIGH-LEVEL (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-LEVEL has 2 senses:

1. at an elevated level in rank or importance

2. occurring at or from a relative high altitude

  Familiarity information: HIGH-LEVEL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-LEVEL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At an elevated level in rank or importance

Synonyms:

high-level; high-ranking; upper-level

Context example:

upper-level management

Similar:

superior (of or characteristic of high rank or importance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Occurring at or from a relative high altitude

Synonyms:

high-altitude; high-level

Context example:

high-level bombing

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

 Context examples 

In addition to providing high-level resolutions for the evaluation of microanatomic structures OCT is also able to provide information regarding tissue composition.

(Optical coherence tomography, NCI Thesaurus)

While Mars is in this area of your chart, you will find it easier than usual to get your foot in the office of a high-level person who can help you advance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Reverse transcription-PCR analysis showed NY-ESO-1 mRNA expression in a variable proportion of a wide array of human cancers, including melanoma, breast cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and hepatocellular carcinoma; and restricted expression in normal tissues, with high-level mRNA expression found only in testis and ovary tissues.

(NY-ESO-B, NCI Thesaurus)

The present study makes the surprising prediction that face processing and color processing engage some similar brain mechanisms, which provides key information about the high-level operations deep in the cerebral cortex that determine how vision works.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

The method identifies those regions of the genome that are aberrant more often than would be expected by chance, with greater weight given to high-amplitude events (high-level copy-number gains or homozygous deletions) that are less likely to represent random aberrations.

(GISTIC, NCI Thesaurus)

Even if you already have a high-level job, you can—and likely will—go higher.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It’s also possible you will have feelings for someone who works with you in a high-level position that you would meet through your work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

That may be because you already have worked in a high-level job and there are fewer positions at the top of the pyramid.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you don’t anticipate high-level check writing, be conservative in spending and see how things go.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It appears you are heading to a high-level position of responsibility and influence.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)