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High-speed   Listen
adjective
high-speed  adj.  
1.
Same as fast; as, fast film. Opposite of slow.
2.
Performed at a high rate of speed; as, a high-speed auto chase on the freeway.
Synonyms: hot.





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"High-speed" Quotes from Famous Books



... as they had a workable high-speed drive. Several drives were being experimented with ...
— The Stars, My Brothers • Edmond Hamilton
... ere they were thundering over the Myannis bridge. A little further on Maitland slowed down and, jumping out, lighted the lamps. In the seat again,—no words had passed,—he threw in the high-speed clutch, and the world flung behind them, roaring. Thereafter, breathless, stunned by the frenzy of speed, perforce silent, they bored on through the night, crashing ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... other shores but this one, an innovation has entered the whaling business. The modern plan is to have shore-refineries and from these strategic bases to send out strongly-built high-speed steamers to shoot detonating harpoons from a cannon into the whale. Such methods are pursued with profit on Newfoundland and Vancouver Island shores. The gun-harpoon, the invention of Sven Foyn, a Norwegian, is furnished at the point with a contrivance which, as it enters the whale, opens ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... Vice-President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Master Cutler and Chairman of the High-Speed Alloys Company, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 • Various


Words linked to "High-speed" :   high-velocity, high-speed steel


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