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Definitions: High-octane |
High-octaneAdjective1. Used of gasoline; having a high octane number. 2. Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: High-octaneSynonyms: high-energy (adj), high-power (adj), high-powered (adj), high-voltage (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: antiknock gasoline (chemical industry, mechanical engineering), antiknock petrol, antipinking gasoline, high octane gasoline (chemical industrychemical industry, mechanical engineering), high octane petrol, high-octane gasoline (chemical industry), premium gasoline. |
Crosswords: High-octane |
| English words defined with "high-octane": high-energy, high-power, high-powered, high-voltage ♦ methylbenzene ♦ toluene. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "high-octane": CATALYST OPERATOR, GASOLINE. (references) |
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Business | For example a liter of 96- mid to high-octane gasoline sells for approximately US $ 1, and a liter of diesel costs US $ 0.50. These prices are much higher than neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt. (references) | |
Economic History | Nicaragua | It freed up prices on high-octane gasoline, lubricants, jet fuel, regular gas and kerosene. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "High-octane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "High-octane" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "high-octane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | високооктанов. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mit einer hohen oktanzahl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagy oktánszámú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ハイオクタン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igh-octanehay высокооктановый. (various references) visokooktanski. (various references) högoktanig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: cheating, hatching, hotching, inchoate, teaching. | |
-3 letters: achiote, aconite, coagent, coating, cognate, coinage, echoing, etching, gahnite, gnathic, heating. | |
-4 letters: acetin, aching, acting, action, aeonic, agonic, atonic, canthi, cation, centai, chaine, change, chetah, chigoe, chiton, cogent, coigne, coting, eating, eching, eighth, enatic, ethion, ethnic, gitano, gothic, haeing, hating, height, hoagie, hoeing, hogtie, incage, ingate, noetic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: ethnographic. | |
+3 letters: hectographing, hypothecating. | |
+4 letters: ethnographical. | |
+5 letters: phytopathogenic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 67 68 2D 6F 63 74 61 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00101101 01101111 01100011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i g h - o c t a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0067 0068 002D 006F 0063 0074 0061 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275737415816986678071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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