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High-octane

Definitions: High-octane

High-octane

Adjective

1. 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-octane

Synonyms: 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.

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Crosswords: High-octane

English words defined with "high-octane": high-energy, high-power, high-powered, high-voltagemethylbenzenetoluene. (references)
Specialty definitions using "high-octane": CATALYST OPERATOR, GASOLINE. (references)

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Commercial Usage: High-octane

DomainTitle

Books

  • Profitability: Fuel Yours with High-Octane Customer Loyalty (HBR OnPoint Collection) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: High-octane

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: High-octane

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: High-octane

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

   

Russian 

  

высокооктановый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

visokooktanski. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

högoktanig. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: High-octane

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: High-octane


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68 2D 6F 63 74 61 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00101101 01101111 01100011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#45 &#111 &#99 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 002D 006F 0063 0074 0061 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4275737415816986678071

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INDEX

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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