HIGH QUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high quality mean? 

• HIGH QUALITY (noun)
  The noun HIGH QUALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being superior

  Familiarity information: HIGH QUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH QUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being superior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

high quality; superiority

Hypernyms ("high quality" is a kind of...):

caliber; calibre; quality (a degree or grade of excellence or worth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high quality"):

choiceness; fineness (the quality of being very good indeed)

first class (the highest rank in a classification)

first water (the highest quality gems)

cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity (the property of being ingenious)

Antonym:

low quality (an inferior quality)

 Context examples 

The main tissue block remains unchanged and is not chemically treated or thawed, which allows for extraction and analysis of high quality DNA, RNA, or protein.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

The Clinical Trials Scientific Review and Monitoring system is the system required by all NCI-designated cancer centers to stringently select for high quality research and to regularly monitor ongoing research for continued access to core grant resources.

(Clinical Trials Scientific Review and Monitoring System, NCI Thesaurus)

While the bacteria are killed, the researchers had a pristine membrane with a high quality of nanocellulose fibres that was able to filter water twice as fast as commercially available ultrafiltration membranes under high operating pressure.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The high quality of the genomes allowed not only identification of metabolic pathways that are critical to the growth and survival of the organism, but also recognition that a large number of pathways that are present in other closely related fungi are absent from Pneumocystis.

(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)

The dwarf was soundly whipt, and as a farther punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown me: neither was he ever restored to favour; for soon after the queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality, so that I saw him no more, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not tell to what extremities such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment.

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

To create and encourage a stimulating approach to disease curricula that will attract high quality students, foster academic career development of promising young teacher-investigators, develop and implement excellent multidisciplinary curricula through interchange of ideas and enable grantee institution to strengthen its existing teaching program.

(Academic/Teacher Award, NCI Thesaurus)

An award to provide limited support to scientists whose research applications fall short of the institute/center funding cutoff but are at the margin of funding in which high quality grants are not awarded due to lack of funds.

(James A. Shannon Director's Award, NCI Thesaurus)