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High-voltage   /haɪ-vˈoʊltədʒ/   Listen
High-voltage

adjective
1.
Operating on or powered by a high voltage.  Synonym: high-potential.
2.
Vigorously energetic or forceful.  Synonyms: high-energy, high-octane, high-power, high-powered.  "A high-octane marketing plan" , "High-powered executives" , "A high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"






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"High-voltage" Quotes from Famous Books



... irregularly circular, perhaps a mile in diameter covering the almost flat dome of the hilltop. Around it, completely enclosing it, Polter had built a stone and brick wall. A miniature wall of China! We could see that it was fully thirty feet high with what evidently were naked high-voltage wires protecting its top. There were half a dozen little gates, securely barred, with doubtless a guard ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... a high-voltage alternating e. m. f. all we have to do is to send an alternating current through the primary of a transformer which has in the secondary, many times more turns of wire than it has in the primary. From the secondary we obtain a higher voltage than we ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother. Even more than they had at first thought was he willing and competent and agreeable in the matter of their common household labor; he was not intrusive; he was rich with clever and well-informed talk when they all laid aside work to be sociable. In fact, ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott

... when Fanny came into his outer office. The very atmosphere was vibrant with his personality. There hung about the place an air of repressed expectancy. The room was electrically charged with the high-voltage of the man in the inner office. His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... anodynous "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother. Even more than they had at first thought was he willing and competent and agreeable in the matter of their common household labor; he was not intrusive; he was rich with clever and well-informed talk when they all laid aside work to be sociable. In ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott



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