Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in May. 2012
The number of uses that the word admits is really important high and therefore the contexts in which we can find this popular term in the Spanish language are varied.
The most widespread sense is that which allows to account for the great stature and height of an individual, a building, a land, an area, among others. Tomás is taller than his brother; they are building a tall tower in front of my building that will block all free vision; his house is in a high area that is not threatened by floods, fortunately.
On the other hand, when something is presented erect, raised, it is spoken in terms of high. The heads held high from the spectators ahead block much of my vision on the stage..
Another highly recurrent use in the language everyday life that has the word alto allows us to express what expensive or the high price of a good, a service, among others. The prices of all types of footwear are very high, I cannot access any with the budget I have..
Also, when something stands out for its
advanced state, or because it turns out to be very complex to access, understand, or because of its excellence, it is frequent the job of the word stop to refer to such situations.In the field of interpretation musical, the height is a type of voice that is located below the treble voice and above the tenor.
And in the country European Italy, Alto is the name given to a Italian town and commune corresponding to the Province from Cuneo, appointment in the Piedmont region and that it presents a little more than one hundred inhabitants.
It should be noted that the word alto is part of many popular expressions which are widely used in our language: pause in some action (cut the activity that is carried out); high! (expression emphatic that demands that someone stop in his step or what he is doing); Stop the fire (very common order to demand that a troop or an agent of safety stop shooting); chop high (to have important aspirations in life); aloft (presents certain distance regarding the I usually); ignore (to ignore, to shut up); Y in style (luxury, magnificence).
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