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形容詞

high-pitched (comparative higher-pitched, superlative highest-pitched)

1. Of a sound, having a high pitch.

   Synonyms: high, fluty

   Antonyms: low, low-pitched

   • 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 168:

     With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […] .

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:

     She knew some Dutch and spoke a high-pitched stressless English.

2. (figurative, dated) Haughty.
3. Placed higher than usual. (of a steam locomotive boiler)
   • 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

     The 2-6-2s have very high-pitched boilers in order that the grate shall clear the radial axle and also the trailing coupled wheels.

参照

• “high-pitched”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.