fast meaning
- Adjective: fast (faster,fastest) fãst
- Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
"fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" - (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
"my watch is fast" - At a rapid tempo
"the band played a fast fox trot" - (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
"a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay" - Resistant to destruction or fading
"fast colours" - Unrestrained by convention or morality
"fast women"
- debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous - Hurried and brief
"a fast visit"
- flying, quick - Securely fixed in place
- firm, immobile - Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
"fast friends"
- firm, loyal, truehearted - (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
"a fast lens"
- Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
"how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters" - Firmly or closely
"held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"
- tight
- Abstaining from food
- fasting
- Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
"Catholics sometimes fast during Lent" - Abstain from eating
"Before the medical exam, you must fast"
Derived forms: fasted, faster, fastest, fasting, fasts
See also: accelerated, alacritous, allegretto, allegro, andantino, blistering, causative, double-quick, express, faithful, fast-breaking, fastness, fast-paced, fixed, fleet, high-speed, high-velocity, hot, hurried, hurrying, immediate, immoral, imperviable, impervious, instant, instantaneous, meteoric, prestissimo, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, red-hot, scurrying, smart, smooth, speed, speedy, straightaway, sudden, swift, swiftness, vivace, windy, winged
Type of: abstain, abstinence, desist, refrain
Antonym: slow
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- Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
[Business]
AmE / adjective, adverb■ adjective (faster, fastest)
1
happening quickly or without delay:
the fastest rate of increase for several years
a fast response time
a fast Internet connection
2
moving quickly; producing or allowing quick movement:
a fast train service
the fastest route between two cities
HARD adj.
■ adverb (faster, fastest)
1
quickly:
Exports are growing faster than GDP.
2
in a short time; without delay:
We want to get our new products on the shelves as fast as possible.
Air travel is fast becoming one of the main causes of global warming.
[Defence]
fleet antiterrorism security team
[Medicine]
vi
1 : to abstain from food
2 : to eat sparingly or abstain from some foods
¦ vt : to deny food to ‹the patient is fasted and given a mild hypnotic —Lancet›
3fast
n
1 : the practice of fasting
2 : a time of fasting
adj
1 : firmly fixed
2
a : having a rapid effect ‹a fast medicine›
b : allowing for the rapid passage of a gas or liquid ‹a fast nipple on a baby bottle›
3 : resistant to change (as from destructive action) —used chiefly of organisms and in combination with the agent resisted ‹acid-fast bacteria›
[Computer]
1. <body> Federation Against Software Theft.
2. <language> Fortran Automatic Symbol Translator.
- fast by: Close to, close by
- a fast buck: (informal) & ...
- a fast one: [American slang]a ...
Examples
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- i am not getting on very fast with this job.
- he had good eyes and a pair of fast hands.
- fast neutrons are also captured by nitrogen.
- he started to choke as he was eating too fast.
- your advice will stick fast in my mind.
