Commanding and Higher

commanding

Be in command of.
- usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
- synonyms: command
Make someone do something.
- synonyms: command, require
Demand as one's due.
- usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
- synonyms: command
Look down on.
- usage: "The villa dominates the town"
- synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
Exercise authoritative control or power over.
- usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
- synonyms: control, command

Used of a height or viewpoint.
- usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
- synonyms: dominating, overlooking

(a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
(a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
(a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

higher

Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
- usage: "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself"
- synonyms: high
Literal meaning. ( being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'))
- usage: "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"
- synonyms: high
Standing above others in quality or position.
- usage: "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community"
- synonyms: eminent, high
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency.
- synonyms: high, high-pitched
Happy and excited and energetic.
- synonyms: high, in high spirits
Used of the smell of meat. ( smelling spoiled or tainted)
- synonyms: gamey, gamy, high
Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana.
- synonyms: high, mellow
Advanced in complexity or elaboration.
- usage: "higher finance"; "higher mathematics"
Of education beyond the secondary level.
- usage: "higher education"; "higher learning"

At a great altitude.
- usage: "he climbed high on the ladder"
- synonyms: high, high up
In or to a high position, amount, or degree.
- usage: "prices have gone up far too high"
- synonyms: high
In a rich manner.
- usage: "he lives high"
- synonyms: high, richly, luxuriously
Far up toward the source.
- usage: "he lives high up the river"
- synonyms: high