top speed
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velocidad máxima
- But here is what I am thinking: the top speed on it is 230 km/h.
- top speed of 130 miles
What is the top speed of a Formula One car?
- What is the top speed of a Formula One car?
- OK, so if this is the Rover, this is the top speed.
- And it just so happens that King Kong's mass can be related to his theoretical top speed through scaling laws as well.
- It's actually not adding more top speed, but adding more lanes to the highway, if you get what I mean.
- So traveling at top speed in a zigzag course pretty much made it impossible for these ships to be sunk by a sub.
- So it's a single speed with a big chain ring up front, small and you can't go at top speed downhill, but you have to go hard uphill.
- There's a couple other minor little things just to ensure maximum top speed.
Examples
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What is the top speed of a Formula One car?
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The long line of flashing lights and cop cars drives at top speed up Route One.
Fiction book (1994) -
Captain wants the boat at top speed.
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- This is the vehicle's top speed.
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Wait, what's your top speed?
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What's the top speed on this thing?
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So what was your top speed on US freeways this year?
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Right now we are aboard a train which, traveling at top speed, will arrive at the Union Station in L.A. At 1900 hours.
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So there's an event in Sun Valley ID called the Sun Valley Tour de Force and it's a top speed event where they shut down the state highway and cars can test their top speeds.
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The car can reach a top speed of 200 miles per hour on the highway.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the highest speed' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'top' (highest, uppermost) with 'speed' (rate of movement). This simple modifier+noun composition is a common, regular pattern in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Top speed probably comes from the picture of a speed meter or dial where the highest numbers sit at the top and show the fastest speed. So top speed means 'the highest speed' someone or something can reach.