high-tension
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6.7
- adjective
- /haɪ ˈtɛnʃən/
- UK
:
alta tensión
- Tokyo is surrounded by high-tension electrical towers.
- high-tension line
- high-tension wires
- high-tension towers
Examples
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There are strict regulations about building near high-tension power lines to ensure safety.
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ZAHIR: It's high-tension wire, Doctor, it doesn't just snap.
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Beyond the road, a set of high-tension lines marched across the landscape.
Fiction book (2002) -
Those are high-tension wires!
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The pickup zooms along, the road now paralleling a line of tall high-tension electrical towers.
Fiction book (1990) -
On the advice of Dr. Johnson, a blockade of high-tension wires containing more than one million volts of electricity is being hastily linked around Tokyo.
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The workers wore protective gear while installing the new high-tension cables across the forest.
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The city has plans to upgrade its high-tension electrical system to support increased demand.
Synonyms
7
4.2
A thing that uses very strong electric power
Powered by very high electrical voltage
Antonyms
How High-Voltage
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
High-tension comes from high and tension, where tension originally meant 'to stretch', like a tight rope. So high-tension describes wires or equipment that carry a lot of electricity, in other words 'high voltage', and that is why people must be careful around them.