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Fast

adverb

1.

Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form). "Ran as fast as he could" , "Needs medical help fast" , "Fast-running rivers" , "Fast-breaking news" , "Fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"

2.

Firmly or closely. Synonym: tight. "Her foot was stuck fast" , "Held tight"

adjective

(compar. faster; superl. fastest)

1.

Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly. "On the fast track in school" , "Set a fast pace" , "A fast car"

2.

(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time.

3.

At a rapid tempo.

4.

(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds. "Grass courts are faster than clay"

5.

Resistant to destruction or fading.

6.

Unrestrained by convention or morality. Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous. "Deplorably dissipated and degraded" , "Riotous living" , "Fast women"

7.

Hurried and brief. Synonyms: flying, quick. "Took a flying glance at the book" , "A quick inspection" , "A fast visit"

8.

Securely fixed in place. Synonyms: firm, immobile.

9.

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause. Synonyms: firm, loyal, truehearted. "Loyal supporters" , "The true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe" , "Fast friends"

10.

(of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time.

noun

1.

Abstaining from food. Synonym: fasting.

verb

(past & past part. fasted; pres. part. fasting)

1.

Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons.

2.

Abstain from eating.

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... pilot came on board, and he guided us in behind the Mole, which had suffered much damage the previous year from an unexplained outburst of waves from the Mediterranean. Both port and bow anchors were cast in deep water. With three huge hawsers the ship's stem was made fast to three gun-pillars fixed in the Mole; and here for a time the "Urgent" rested from ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... importance to this Nation. No evidence of prosperity among well-established farmers should blind us to the fact that lack of capital is preventing a development of the Nation's agricultural resources and an adequate increase of the land under cultivation; that agricultural production is fast falling behind the increase in population; and that, in fact, although these well-established farmers are maintained in increasing prosperity because of the natural increase in population, we are not developing the industry of agriculture. We are not breeding in proportionate ...

— State of the Union Addresses of William H. Taft • William H. Taft

... in the evening my uncle, his family, Irina, the dogs, the rats that live in the storeroom, the rabbits were fast asleep. There was nothing for it but to go to bed too. I sleep on the drawing-room sofa. The sofa has not increased in length, and is as short as it was before, and so when I go to bed I have either to stick up my legs in an unseemly way ...

— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... "Very fast indeed, Sir. Why, Sir, in another year I expect to control this whole county financially. There is no reason why I shouldn't. Every one of ...

— Cord and Creese • James de Mille

... dear readers, can appreciate the intense delight of grassing your first big fish after a nine month's fast? All first sensations have their special pleasure; but none can be named, in a small way, to beat this of the first fish of the season. The first clean leg-hit for four in your first match at Lord's—the grating of the bows of your racing boat against the stern of the boat ahead ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

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