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noun

Rapids, Rapid n. The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. For boaters on the river, it is a place that can be hazardous, with danger of capsizing or crashing into large rocks. "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past."

adjective

Rapid adj.

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. "Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels."

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

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Etymology of 'Rapid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee

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— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm

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— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... Yankee-doodle metre of F. W. Newman, the ponderous blank verse of Cowper, the tripping and clipping couplets of Pope, the Elizabethan fantasies of Chapman. But Mr Arnold's hexameters were neither musical nor rapid: they only exhibited a new form of failure. As the Prince of Abyssinia said to his tutor, "Enough; you have convinced me that no man can be a poet," so Mr Arnold went some way to prove that no man can ...

— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang

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