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high-octane

/hahy-ok-teyn/US // ˈhaɪˈɒk teɪn //

高辛烷值,高辛烷,高辛烷烃,高辛烷值的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
    • : Informal. forceful or intense; dynamic; high-powered: high-octane efforts to obliterate the competition.

Examples

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.

  • He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

  • Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.