high-water mark

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.

   “This imposing structure, which not only carries the single track branch line but also the gas main supplying the Forest of Dean area, cost £200,000 when it was built in 1879, and at its highest point is 70ft above the high-water mark.”

2. isim The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point.

   “The Gettysburg campaign was the high-water mark of the Confederacy's invasions of the North.”