high-techadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪˈtɛk/,

/ˈhʌɪˌtɛk/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪˈtɛk/,

/ˌhaɪˈtɛk/

Forms: 1900s– high-tec, 1900s– high-tech, 1900s– hi-tec, 1900s– hi-tech.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: high technology adj.

Etymology: Shortened < high technology adj. Compare later tech n.⁴, and also low-tech adj. With the use as noun compare earlier high technology n.

A. adj.

1. Using, requiring, or characterized by high-technology; technologically advanced. Opposed to low-tech.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > [adjective] > relating to technology

technologic1817

technological1924

tech1942

whizz-bang1966

high-tech1967

low-tech1967

1967 Washington Post 22 Oct. h11 (caption) Volunteer worker..touches up paint on the Michels and Feild ‘High-Tech’ house at Corcoran.

1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 247/1 It's the only high-tech home I've found at all lovable.

1980 New Age (U.S.) Oct. 36/2 A pocket calculator, a very high-tech gadget.

1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) iii. 57 Paleontologists in Utah are investigating the muscular-electrical phenomena of turtle chewing by using sophisticated electromyographs, high-tech gadgets that chart each muscle's physiological activity.

1998 Independent on Sunday 5 July (Business section) 1/7 Cambridgeshire..is a centre for hi-tech industries, many of which work closely with the world famous university.

2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 30 July iii. 3/1 To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention, a high-tech helper that could..allow consumers to buy their groceries with the wave of a chipped hand.

2. Designating or relating to the ‘high-tech’ design movement. Cf. sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > [adjective] > relating to technology > branches of technology

super-technological1933

technetronic1967

technotronic1968

terotechnological1970

high-tech1979

new-tech1982

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles

florida1706

massive1723

rounded1757

round-arched1782

castellar1789

baronial1807

rational1813

English colonial1817

massy1817

transitional1817

Scottish Baronial1829

rococo1830

flamboyant1832

Scotch Baronial1833

Churrigueresque1845

Russo-Byzantine1845

soaring1849

trenchant1849

vernacular1857

Scots Baronial1864

baroque1867

Perp.1867

rayonnant1873

Dutch colonial1876

Neo-Grec1878

rococoesque1885

Richardsonian1887

federal1894

organic1896

confectionery1897

European-style1907

postmodern1916

Lutyens1921

modern1927

moderne1928

functionalist1930

Williamsburg1931

Colonial Revival1934

packing case1935

Corbusian1936

lavatorial1936

pseudish1938

Adamesque1942

rationalist1952

Miesian1956

open-planned1958

Lutyensesque1961

façade1962

Odeon1964

high-tech1979

Populuxe1986

1979 A. L. Huxtable in G. G. Wynne Survival Strategies iii. 70 A cultural and administration centre in construction now..is a far more sophisticated building, but its version of the current ‘high-tech’ vogue of mechanical effects..has little to do with anything else around it.

1981 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 The image of a building today may be of sleek glass or glass reinforced plastic panels; tomorrow, those panels may have been changed from glass to solid... The high-tech architect will not wince.

1990 A. J. Youngson Urban Devel. & Royal Fine Art Comm. iii. 98 The MCC Bicentenary Stand at Lords is an admirable example of ‘high-tech’ architecture.

1998 G. Tyack Oxford 334 The architect, Nicholas Grimshaw, is a devotee of the 'high-tech' school of neo-modernist architecture.

B. n.

1. = high technology n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of

manufacturing technology1890

geotechnics1902

geotechnology1908

neotechnics1927

high technology1936

appropriate technology1950

new technology1953

space technology1957

technoscience1960

microtechnology1963

telechirics1963

reproductive technology1965

high-tech1967

megatechnics1967

terotechnology1970

ecotechnology1973

new-tech1980

analogue1986

sci-tech1990

haptics1992

1967 Washington Post 22 Oct. h11/2 High-Tech has been used to solve simple problems, like getting a package from A to B (A being Cape Kennedy; B the moon).

1982 J. Vallee Network Revol. 6 At the other end of the country is the once-lovely Santa Clara Valley, now the smoggy, noisy Silicon Gulch, Capital of High-Tech.

1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) vii. 108 The innovations which have leapt to the fore are the result of high-tech, and that, after all, is what the 1980s are about.

1985 W. Golding Egyptian Jrnl. xv. 166 We..were happy in the thought of baths and that product of western high tech, beautiful loos.

1996 S. W. Hong in F. Lo & Y. Yeung Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia (1999) 160 The semi-conductor, computer, fine ceramics, and auto industries are expected to be the leading sectors in high-tech in the coming years.

2. Also with capital initial(s). A movement in architecture and interior design, drawing inspiration from engineering and industrial design, and characterized by the emphasis of structural and functional components and the use of materials such as glass, steel, and plastic.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles

transition1730

pasticcio1750

symmetrophobia1809

rococo1835

flamboyantism1846

collegiate Gothic1851

vernacular architecture1857

Neo-Grec1867

modernism1879

wedding-cake1879

Queen Anne1883

Colonial Revival1889

Chicago school1893

Dutch colonial1894

English colonial1894

monumentalism1897

vernacular1910

international style1911

Churrigueresque1913

postmodernism1914

prairie style1914

rationalism1918

lavatory style1919

functionalism1924

Mudéjar1927

façadism1933

open plan1938

Wrenaissance1942

pseudo1945

brutalism1953

open planning1958

neo-Liberty1959

Queen Annery1966

Jugendstil1967

moderne1968

strip architecture1976

high-tech1978

1978 J. Kron & S. Slesin High-Tech 1 Some people call this phenomenon ‘the industrial style’, but we call it ‘high-tech’. High-tech..is a term currently used in architectural circles to describe buildings incorporating prefabricated..building components.

1980 N. Silver in L. Michaels & C. Ricks State of Lang. 325 In architect talk,..one might overhear someone saying, ‘We should reference hi-tech at the main entrance.’

1995 M. Quantrill Finnish Archit. & Modernist Trad. ix. 230 The refinement of an industrial expression made possible by the techniques of ‘high-tech’.

2006 N. Salingaros & T. M. Mikiten in N. Salingaros Theory of Archit. x. 199 More recently ‘high-tech’ has become the fashionable international style of corporate architecture, simply because its superficial appearance of metal pipes, glass, mirrors, and plexiglass links it to modern technology.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high-tech
释义	high-techadj.n. Brit. /ˌhʌɪˈtɛk/, /ˈhʌɪˌtɛk/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˈtɛk/, /ˌhaɪˈtɛk/ Forms: 1900s– high-tec, 1900s– high-tech, 1900s– hi-tec, 1900s– hi-tech. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: high technology adj. Etymology: Shortened < high technology adj. Compare later tech n.⁴, and also low-tech adj. With the use as noun compare earlier high technology n. A. adj. 1. Using, requiring, or characterized by high-technology; technologically advanced. Opposed to low-tech. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [adjective] > relating to technology technologic1817 technological1924 tech1942 whizz-bang1966 high-tech1967 low-tech1967 1967 Washington Post 22 Oct. h11 (caption) Volunteer worker..touches up paint on the Michels and Feild ‘High-Tech’ house at Corcoran. 1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 247/1 It's the only high-tech home I've found at all lovable. 1980 New Age (U.S.) Oct. 36/2 A pocket calculator, a very high-tech gadget. 1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) iii. 57 Paleontologists in Utah are investigating the muscular-electrical phenomena of turtle chewing by using sophisticated electromyographs, high-tech gadgets that chart each muscle's physiological activity. 1998 Independent on Sunday 5 July (Business section) 1/7 Cambridgeshire..is a centre for hi-tech industries, many of which work closely with the world famous university. 2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 30 July iii. 3/1 To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention, a high-tech helper that could..allow consumers to buy their groceries with the wave of a chipped hand. 2. Designating or relating to the ‘high-tech’ design movement. Cf. sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [adjective] > relating to technology > branches of technology super-technological1933 technetronic1967 technotronic1968 terotechnological1970 high-tech1979 new-tech1982 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles florida1706 massive1723 rounded1757 round-arched1782 castellar1789 baronial1807 rational1813 English colonial1817 massy1817 transitional1817 Scottish Baronial1829 rococo1830 flamboyant1832 Scotch Baronial1833 Churrigueresque1845 Russo-Byzantine1845 soaring1849 trenchant1849 vernacular1857 Scots Baronial1864 baroque1867 Perp.1867 rayonnant1873 Dutch colonial1876 Neo-Grec1878 rococoesque1885 Richardsonian1887 federal1894 organic1896 confectionery1897 European-style1907 postmodern1916 Lutyens1921 modern1927 moderne1928 functionalist1930 Williamsburg1931 Colonial Revival1934 packing case1935 Corbusian1936 lavatorial1936 pseudish1938 Adamesque1942 rationalist1952 Miesian1956 open-planned1958 Lutyensesque1961 façade1962 Odeon1964 high-tech1979 Populuxe1986 1979 A. L. Huxtable in G. G. Wynne Survival Strategies iii. 70 A cultural and administration centre in construction now..is a far more sophisticated building, but its version of the current ‘high-tech’ vogue of mechanical effects..has little to do with anything else around it. 1981 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 The image of a building today may be of sleek glass or glass reinforced plastic panels; tomorrow, those panels may have been changed from glass to solid... The high-tech architect will not wince. 1990 A. J. Youngson Urban Devel. & Royal Fine Art Comm. iii. 98 The MCC Bicentenary Stand at Lords is an admirable example of ‘high-tech’ architecture. 1998 G. Tyack Oxford 334 The architect, Nicholas Grimshaw, is a devotee of the 'high-tech' school of neo-modernist architecture. B. n. 1. = high technology n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of manufacturing technology1890 geotechnics1902 geotechnology1908 neotechnics1927 high technology1936 appropriate technology1950 new technology1953 space technology1957 technoscience1960 microtechnology1963 telechirics1963 reproductive technology1965 high-tech1967 megatechnics1967 terotechnology1970 ecotechnology1973 new-tech1980 analogue1986 sci-tech1990 haptics1992 1967 Washington Post 22 Oct. h11/2 High-Tech has been used to solve simple problems, like getting a package from A to B (A being Cape Kennedy; B the moon). 1982 J. Vallee Network Revol. 6 At the other end of the country is the once-lovely Santa Clara Valley, now the smoggy, noisy Silicon Gulch, Capital of High-Tech. 1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) vii. 108 The innovations which have leapt to the fore are the result of high-tech, and that, after all, is what the 1980s are about. 1985 W. Golding Egyptian Jrnl. xv. 166 We..were happy in the thought of baths and that product of western high tech, beautiful loos. 1996 S. W. Hong in F. Lo & Y. Yeung Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia (1999) 160 The semi-conductor, computer, fine ceramics, and auto industries are expected to be the leading sectors in high-tech in the coming years. 2. Also with capital initial(s). A movement in architecture and interior design, drawing inspiration from engineering and industrial design, and characterized by the emphasis of structural and functional components and the use of materials such as glass, steel, and plastic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles transition1730 pasticcio1750 symmetrophobia1809 rococo1835 flamboyantism1846 collegiate Gothic1851 vernacular architecture1857 Neo-Grec1867 modernism1879 wedding-cake1879 Queen Anne1883 Colonial Revival1889 Chicago school1893 Dutch colonial1894 English colonial1894 monumentalism1897 vernacular1910 international style1911 Churrigueresque1913 postmodernism1914 prairie style1914 rationalism1918 lavatory style1919 functionalism1924 Mudéjar1927 façadism1933 open plan1938 Wrenaissance1942 pseudo1945 brutalism1953 open planning1958 neo-Liberty1959 Queen Annery1966 Jugendstil1967 moderne1968 strip architecture1976 high-tech1978 1978 J. Kron & S. Slesin High-Tech 1 Some people call this phenomenon ‘the industrial style’, but we call it ‘high-tech’. High-tech..is a term currently used in architectural circles to describe buildings incorporating prefabricated..building components. 1980 N. Silver in L. Michaels & C. Ricks State of Lang. 325 In architect talk,..one might overhear someone saying, ‘We should reference hi-tech at the main entrance.’ 1995 M. Quantrill Finnish Archit. & Modernist Trad. ix. 230 The refinement of an industrial expression made possible by the techniques of ‘high-tech’. 2006 N. Salingaros & T. M. Mikiten in N. Salingaros Theory of Archit. x. 199 More recently ‘high-tech’ has become the fashionable international style of corporate architecture, simply because its superficial appearance of metal pipes, glass, mirrors, and plexiglass links it to modern technology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1967
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