high-riseadj.n.

1907 Official Gaz. U.S. Patent Office 9 Apr. 2235/2 In an elevator system, the combination of a high-rise, and a low-rise car operating between different sets of terminals in the same shaft.

1910 Sci. Amer. 30 Apr. 358/2 The length of the several cables for the various cars varies from 575 to 626 feet for the high-rise car.

1998 G. R. Strakosch Vertical Transportation Handbk. (ed. 3) v. 106 Suggest that rather than a single group of seven elevators, two groups of four elevators, low-rise and high-rise, be considered.

2009 F. Dagostino & J. B. Wujek Mech. & Electr. Syst. in Archit. (ed. 5) xxiv. 838/2 Elevators in the low-rise group should serve the lower portion of the building while elevators in the high-rise group travel directly from the main stop to the upper portions of the building.

1908 W. H. Baker Dict. Men's Wear 131 High-rise, term applied to trousers cut high in the waist.

1928 Sioux City (Iowa) Jrnl. 13 Apr. 11/5 (advt.) A double-breasted notched collar vest and double pleated high rise trouser.

1967 Time 20 Oct. 60 She likes the high-rise boots because ‘they give my legs a sleek stocking look’.

1986 N.Y. Mag. 27 Jan. (front matter) (advt.) Its wrapskirt has the high-rise waist we all love now.

2006 Wallpaper June 69/3 Fashionistas have been fighting over..Acne's high-rise, straight-leg, slim-fit ‘Hep’ jeans in dark blue raw denim.

1915 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers June 311/1 Some of the exceedingly high rise buildings are equipped at the top of the hatchway with a retarding and latching device for both car and counterweight.

1954 Archit. Rev. 116 414/2 In general form—podium and high-rise accommodation—this scheme follows the general pattern of current thought.

1961 Times 3 July p. iv ‘High-rise living’ (as the Americans call it) is not the only way to getting high density.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 45 (advt.) Adult hi-rise building.

1975 Business Week (Nexis) 7 Apr. 23 During reglazing, a $875,000 sprinkler system was installed ‘in view of recent high-rise fires in other parts of the country’.

1980 T. Williams Let. 14 Oct. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 381 Here I sit on the 27th floor of a high-rise hotel in Vancouver.

2012 Independent 25 July 23/2 For many, the high-rise estates that generally succeeded them were a step back in what might be called liveability.

1964 Amer. Motorcyclist July 25/1 New features include..high-rise handlebars..and the largest brakes in its displacement class.

1989 Independent (Nexis) 11 Feb. 33 The New York interiors magazine memorable for its staff with the..high-rise heels.

1991 Nation 23 Sept. 350/3 They've given him high-rise Brillo hair and funny little eyeglasses.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xvii/4 In future big 4x4s will be perceived either as the real thing, such as a Land Rover, or a kind of high-rise limo, such as an X5.

1962 Life 27 Apr. 17/3 A high-rise is any apartment more than eight stories high.

1981 Bon Appétit Nov. 65/1 (advt.) It doesn't matter whether you live in an apartment, a condo or the 47th floor of a high rise.

1992 Destination Québec 20/3 Every day, more than 25,000 civil servants pour into the government high rises of Place du Portage and Terrasses de la Chaudière.

2009 S. Faulks Week in December i. 1 The last of the dog-walkers dragged their mongrels back to flats in Hackney and Bow, grey high-rises marked with satellite dishes.