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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-speed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a high-speed crash
▪ the risk of injury from a high-speed crash
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chase
▪ They include high-speed chases through densely packed suburban areas, filmed from the air by helicopters.
▪ Monday, during a high-speed chase through the streets of the Baja California state capital.
▪ The high-speed chase began after police spotted the gang with the stolen vehicles at the M1 Woodhall Services near Sheffield.
computer
▪ Kidder cites the recruiting strategy Tom West picked up from Seymour Cray, the legendary designer of high-speed computers.
data
▪ Collection and analysis of the data have required fast electronics, high-speed data links and of course powerful computing facilities.
internet
▪ It also provides onsite customer support, a dedicated high-speed Internet connection, security, and fire detection and suppression.
▪ And that is what you are doing if you have a high-speed Internet connection and you're not running a firewall.
▪ At that time, the company was one of the few Internet providers able to link business customers to high-speed Internet service.
▪ Verio also provides high-speed Internet access, security and other business Web services.
link
▪ New 68040-based intelligent line modules offer high-speed links to local area networks.
▪ He mocked Britain's failure to start building a high-speed link from London to its side of the tunnel.
▪ People need to be satisfied that the environmental assessments for King's Cross and the high-speed link are accurate.
▪ That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another.
modem
▪ This offers high-speed modem users the chance to cut costs.
network
▪ The big important stuff, in other words, worked pretty well, because it was off by itself on high-speed networks.
rail
▪ The Government have made their position clear on the route of the high-speed rail link and there is no reconsideration.
▪ He also knows that there are plans for a high-speed rail link to run through Stratford.
train
▪ In May 1991 a new high-speed train service on the Hamburg-Munich route was introduced.
▪ Adtranz manufactures electric and diesel locomotives, high-speed trains, streetcars and underground trains, and signal and traffic-control systems.
▪ The noise from below battered her eardrums until it felt as if a high-speed train was roaring through her head.
▪ At £55, it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Journey times have been reduced considerably since the introduction of high-speed trains.
▪ The era of high-speed jet travel began after the end of World War II.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A TriFlex controller uses high-speed buffers to manage data flow between the buses.
▪ But high-speed cache memory is expensive.
▪ Close to 2 million people now enjoy the sport, which combines elements of skateboarding and surfing into a high-speed slalom.
▪ Fibre Channel Standard technology was also featured for the first time in a cluster and high-speed networking environment.
▪ It also provides onsite customer support, a dedicated high-speed Internet connection, security, and fire detection and suppression.
▪ Monday, during a high-speed chase through the streets of the Baja California state capital.
▪ The crash happened after a high-speed mainline train smashed into a freight service, near Selby, north Yorkshire.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
high-speed

high-speed \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.

    Syn: hot.

Wiktionary
high-speed

a. That operates, moves or takes place at a greater than normal speed.

WordNet
high-speed
  1. adj. operating at high speed; "a high-speed food processor"; "a high-velocity shell" [syn: high-velocity]

  2. taking place at high speed; "a high-speed chase"

Usage examples of "high-speed".

I wondered if even Amrita could have followed the gist of the high-speed Bengali.

He cursed them for trying to make fools out of him and his friends, and then, spotting a flash from a Zak bazooka far off to his right, he put the Gundam into a high-speed swoop toward the Zaks around the ships, careful at the same time to avoid friendly gun and missile fire.

May 9, 1994, when, after just two and a half hours of deliberations, the jury forewoman announced that Joel was guilty of murder, as well as a felony count of reckless endangerment for leading police on the high-speed chase.

He came in with the book-editor, who went away about six hours ago with thirteen finished chapters -- the bloody product of fifty-five consecutive hours of sleepless, foodless, high-speed editing.

Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.

He found himself falling, shouted, and caught a flashing glimpse of Gumbs and Bellis, standing as if caught by a high-speed camera.

We had several classes together and I was impressed by his nervous high-speed humor, his iconoclasm, the way he turned familiar ideas around and gave fresh meaning to them without necessarily believing his own version more than the original.

He should be solving intercept orbits, even with nomographs instead of high-speed computers, better than that by now.

Todd, reanimated, described how his lone shift partner sat every night in a sterile chamber of humming processing units, high-speed printers, floor-mount disk drives, and glowing consoles, doing routine work that any modestly endowed twenty-one-year-old could do, changing tapes, running the unvarying deck of punched cards through the hopper, while all the while this set of baroque irrelevances spun around on a cheap grinder perched on top of the digital check-sorter.

The Twirlers had begun using radio centuries before humanity had, and so a high-speed Tosok mothership had been dispatched to that star, arriving there thirty-odd years ago.

The counter-grav let him fold the wings, which had been swept fully forward for their low-speed examination of possible landing sites, back into their high-speed position without losing control, and she heard turbines whine as he held a moderate apparent weight on the shuttle and vectored thrust downward.

CAP was vectored out but the enemy planes split up and attacked in long, high-speed glides.

But Ralph von Wau Wau roared and reared up on his hind legs, and suddenly all the frenzied high-speed activity congealed into a static tableau.

Plus, they all want high-speed connectivity in the store so they can webcast their poetry slams.

Big Screen was like an electroshock cattle prod hammered down the earthquake faults of human identity which ripple and shudder at magnitude ten and slip and slide and pulverize and resettle into new and rarely improved and NEVER stable identities and wait for the next inevitable twitch and shudder that will send reality sprawling once again like pieces of ice flying around a high-speed blender and create a new and even more unstable formation and reinforce the creeping paranoia that has flooded the dazed soul that WAS you but has become something else, something different THAT was what FILM could do.