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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Important people and describing important people
actor
August
augustly
baron
be the cat's whiskersidiom
doyen
first among equalsidiom
FLOTUS
get over something/someone
get over yourself!idiom
guest of honour
heartbeat
mogul
movers and shakers
MVP
nibs
notable
number two
superiority
the grand old man of somethingidiom

high-level | American Dictionary

high-level
adjective
us/ˈhɑɪˈlev·əl/
very important:
a high-level scientist/conference

high-level | Business English

high-level
adjective
uk /ˌhaɪˈlevəl/us
WORKPLACE
in a position of importance or great influence, or involving people who are in positions of power or great influence:
a high-level administrator/executive/official
high-level meetings/negotiations/talksThe White House has acknowledged that high-level discussions are taking place.
IT
used to describe a language for writing computer programs which looks more like human language than computer language and is therefore easier to understand:
C, on the other hand, is a "high-level language" in that it has a greater degree of abstraction.

Examples of high-level

high-level
In our approach, the modularity is not only a useful feature of the whole system, but a desired possibility of high-level modular instrument making.
According to this hypothesis, neural assemblies in high-level visual areas, coding unrelated features or objects, exert mutual inhibitory or desynchronizing actions.
The only non-trivial case concerns the operation of functional composition; proofs for the other high-level operations can be obtained easily by applying the semantic definitions.
We can mechanize this idea in type theory, yielding the key technique for expressing high-level programs via elimination operators, hence we reprise it here.
However, it also exerted enormous pressure on the strikers, who were unaccustomed to such high-level attention to their affairs.
In-situation goals are then treated as high-level events.
Finally, note that both intention and attention, which are crucial components of monitoring an interlocutor, do not necessarily appeal to high-level, resource-demanding processes.
Usually, these strategies are chosen and enforced by high-level public entities and therefore many institutions are obliged to support them.
Deputies get special access to high-level actors in the administration, and inside information about government activities that they may use to benefit constituents or themselves.
For mostly theoretical issues such as semantics or correctness of high-level program transformations, real programming languages are too complicated and lack generality.
The challenge is to develop a small set of adequately expressive high-level coordination constructs.
Low-level approach responses acknowledge the maternal behavior but give little to build on, whereas high-level approach responses set up the next turn in the interaction.
This occurs where the types of sounds and the structural continuity direct one to listen continuously in a global, high-level mode.
More work is needed to understand the opposing, downstream effects of chronic, low-level increases in adenosine and acute, high-level increases in adenosine.
Figure 1 shows the high-level design of the broker and its relationship with other agents in a smart space.
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