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Meaning of fast in English fastadjective uk /fɑːst/ us /fæst/

fast adjective (QUICK)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 moving or happening quickly, or able to move or happen quickly: fast cars a fast swimmer Computers are getting faster all the time.UK The fast train (= one that stops at fewer stations and travels quickly) to London takes less than an hour. Synonyms expeditious formal quick rapid speedy swift fast
  • fastI tried to catch him, but he was too fast for me.
  • quickI tried to catch him, but he was too quick for me.
  • promptA prompt reply would be very much appreciated.
  • speedyEveryone is hoping for a speedy resolution to the conflict.
  • swiftThe teacher's swift action saved his life.
See more results » If your watch or clock is fast, it shows a time that is later than the correct time. art   specialized used to refer to photographic film that allows you to take pictures when there is not much light or when things are moving quickly fast and furious used to describe something that is full of speed and excitement: It's not a relaxing movie - it's pretty fast and furious. See more
  • The police car was going so fast, it must have been chasing someone.
  • Isabel's heart was beating fast with fright.
  • We were scrabbling over the rocks as fast as we could.
  • I think the kitchen clock is fast.
  • Given his age, he's a remarkably fast runner.
Fast and rapid
  • apace
  • as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
  • as if it is going out of style idiom
  • at a gallop
  • at a rate of knots idiom
  • hell
  • hell for leather idiom
  • helter-skelter
  • high speed
  • hotfoot
  • hustle
  • quickly
  • quickness
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • sizzling
  • smartly
  • spanking
  • streak
  • wildfire
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fast adjective (IMMORAL)

old-fashioned disapproving without moral principles: a fast crowd a fast woman Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • abhorrently
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • amorally
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • enormity
  • nefariousness
  • no good idiom
  • no more Mr Nice Guy idiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • trespass
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
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fast adjective (FIXED)

If the colour of a piece of clothing is fast, the colour does not come out of the cloth when it is washed. Paints, dyes & pigments
  • achiote
  • annatto
  • antifouling
  • brazilwood
  • carmine
  • chay
  • henna
  • invisible ink
  • lacquer
  • lacquerware
  • latex paint
  • lick of paint
  • linseed oil
  • pigmentation
  • respray
  • satin
  • semigloss
  • shellac
  • sienna
  • varnish
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Grammar

Fast, quick or quickly?Fast and quick mean moving with great speed. Fast is both an adjective and an adverb. Quick is an adjective and the adverb form is quickly. … fastadverb uk /fɑːst/ us /fæst/ A2 quickly: The accident was caused by people driving too fast in bad conditions. You'll have to act fast. Children's publishing is a fast-growing business. at a fast speed
  • fastHe drives too fast for my liking.
  • quicklyThe problem needs to be solved as quickly as possible.
  • swiftlyHe left and returned swiftly.
  • brisklyWe walked briskly through the park.
  • precipitouslyShare prices dropped precipitously on the economic news.
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  • The police car was going so fast, it must have been chasing someone.
  • "You always walk too fast for me, " she said complainingly.
  • He drove so fast that I really felt my life was in danger.
  • The seats in the hall were filling up fast.
  • Poor standards of hygiene mean that the disease spreads fast.
Fast and rapid
  • apace
  • as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
  • as if it is going out of style idiom
  • at a gallop
  • at a rate of knots idiom
  • hell
  • hell for leather idiom
  • helter-skelter
  • high speed
  • hotfoot
  • hustle
  • quickly
  • quickness
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • sizzling
  • smartly
  • spanking
  • streak
  • wildfire
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Grammar

Fast, quick or quickly?Fast and quick mean moving with great speed. Fast is both an adjective and an adverb. Quick is an adjective and the adverb form is quickly. …

Idioms

as fast as your legs would carry you play fast and loose with something/someone fastadverb, adjective uk /fɑːst/ us /fæst/ C2 firmly fixed: stuck fast The glue had set and my hand was stuck fast.stick fast When she tried to remove the ring, she found that it had stuck fast. He tried to get away, but she held him fast. Tight and tightening
  • astringency
  • chokehold
  • close-fitting
  • flex your muscles idiom
  • inelasticity
  • skinny
  • snug
  • snugly
  • stiffen
  • strain
  • straitly
  • super-tight
  • taut
  • tauten
  • tense
  • tenseness
  • tension
  • tight-fitting
  • tighten
  • tighten something up phrasal verb
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Grammar

Fast, quick or quickly?Fast and quick mean moving with great speed. Fast is both an adjective and an adverb. Quick is an adjective and the adverb form is quickly. …

Idiom

hold/stand fast fastnoun [ C ] uk /fɑːst/ us /fæst/ a period of time when you eat no food: Hundreds of prisoners began a fast in protest about prison conditions. Diets & dieting
  • bromatology
  • caloric
  • calorie-controlled
  • carb-free
  • clean eating
  • detox
  • empty calories
  • intermittent fasting
  • keep (someone/something) off something phrasal verb
  • keto diet
  • ketogenic diet
  • lacto-ovo vegetarian
  • put something on phrasal verb
  • RDA
  • regimen
  • simple carbohydrate
  • slimming
  • staple diet
  • supernutrition
  • veggie
See more results » fastverb [ I ] uk /fɑːst/ us /fæst/ to eat no food for a period of time: One day a week he fasts for health reasons. Abstaining and refraining
  • abstain
  • abstain from something
  • abstainer
  • abstemious
  • abstemiously
  • cut
  • disengagement
  • fasting
  • finger
  • forbear
  • forbearance
  • forgo the pleasure of something/doing something
  • out of circulation
  • play hard to get idiom
  • pull
  • pull back phrasal verb
  • step
  • stop
  • touch
  • truck
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Diets & dieting (Definition of fast from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

fast | American Dictionary

fastadjective [ -er/-est only ] us /fæst/

fast adjective [-er/-est only] (QUICK)

Add to word list Add to word list moving or happening quickly or able to move or happen quickly: a fast car The fastest way to get there is by plane. If your watch or clock is fast, it shows a time later than the real time.

Idiom

in the fast lane fastadjective, adverb [ not gradable ] us /fæst/

fast adjective, adverb [not gradable] (ATTACHED)

connected or attached in a way that is not easily unfastened: Tie the boat fast to the pier. fastverb [ I ] us /fæst/

fast verb [I] (NOT EAT)

to have a period of time when you eat no food: We will be fasting until sundown tomorrow.

fast

noun [ C ] us /fæst/ They organized a fast to draw attention to the issue of hunger. fastadverb [ -er/-est only ] us /fæst/

fast adverb [-er/-est only] (QUICKLY)

quickly: The accident was caused by people driving too fast in bad conditions. This type of wilderness area is disappearing fast. (Definition of fast from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fast

fast However, faster implementations will ultimately depend on better understanding of the algorithmic aspects of reasoning with logic programs under the stable model semantics. From the Cambridge English Corpus The reproduced seedling families grew faster than and outyielded all the clones in all four crosses, although they showed no gain in yield efficiency. From the Cambridge English Corpus The fastest switchingon rate that produces a chronic infection is 0n03 % per generation. From the Cambridge English Corpus Table 2 shows the fastest parallel runtime and the speedup for the number of processors at which that time was achieved for each program. From the Cambridge English Corpus On the other hand, the tree automaton approach is clearly the fastest. From the Cambridge English Corpus Even without further optimization, this implementation of balanced binary search trees is one of the fastest around. From the Cambridge English Corpus As a result, constructive transformations proceed faster than destructive transformations. From the Cambridge English Corpus Yes, faster machines with more memory are good, too. From the Cambridge English Corpus Slower or faster speeds will time stretch contract the file as described above. From the Cambridge English Corpus We will show that the optimal policy should have the fastest server as the flexible one. From the Cambridge English Corpus To meet sophisticated functional specifications of products in modern manufacturing, it becomes cost effective to have faster and more accurate dimensional inspection systems. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition, a faster overall cycle time can be achieved which reduces the costs of consumables such as shielding gas. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, very high flux instruments at third-generation sources and faster area detectors have considerably increased the accessible time resolution. From the Cambridge English Corpus Other tools under discussion are added-value services like faster decisionmaking processes or feedback from the administration and later deadline of the application or report. From the Cambridge English Corpus Given the lower base, however, costs rise at a faster rate than benefits as the match rate increases (middle left chart). From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of fast These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of fast?

Translations of fast

in Chinese (Traditional) 快的, 迅速的, 敏捷的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 快的, 迅速的, 敏捷的… See more in Spanish rápido, veloz, estar adelantado… See more in Portuguese veloz, rápido, adiantado… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian वेगवान - वेगाने हलणारे किंवा घडणारे किंवा वेगाने हलणे किंवा घडणे शक्य असलेले, पुढे केलेले/गेलेले - जर तुमचे घड्याळ पुढे केलेले/गेलेले असेल तर ते बरोबर वेळेच्या पुढची वेळ दाखवते., वेगाने… See more 速い, 速く, しっかりと… See more hızlı, süratli, çabuk… See more rapide, en avance, rapidement… See more ràpid, veloç, ràpidament… See more snel, vlug, vóór… See more விரைவாக நகரும் அல்லது நடக்கிறது, அல்லது விரைவாக நகர்த்த அல்லது நடக்க முடியும், உங்கள் கடிகாரம் அல்லது கடிகாரம் வேகமாக இருந்தால்… See more (गति) तेज़, तेज़, तेज़ी से… See more ઝડપી, તીવ્ર, આગળ… See more hurtig, foran, hurtigt… See more snabb, före, snabbt… See more laju, pantas, cepat… See more schnell, vorgehen, fasten… See more rask, for fort, fort… See more تیز, آگے, اگر آپ کی گھڑی یا دیوارگھڑی تیز یا آگےہے، تو یہ صحیح وقت کے بعد کا وقت دکھاتی ہے۔… See more швидкий, скорий, такий… See more వేగంగా తిరగడం (గడియారం మొదలైనవి), గట్టిగా పరిష్కరించబడింది… See more দ্রুত, দ্রুতগতি বা দ্রুত ঘটছে, যদি আপনার হাতঘড়ি বা ঘড়ি দ্রুত হয়… See more rychlý, předcházející se, rychle… See more cepat, berpuasa, puasa… See more ที่เคลื่อนที่ได้เร็ว, รวดเร็ว, ที่แสดงเวลาเร็วกว่าเวลาปกติ… See more nhanh, (đồng hồ) chạy nhanh, vững vàng… See more szybki, ≈ spieszyć się, szybko… See more 빠른, 빨리, 단단히… See more veloce, velocemente, saldamente… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of fast

  • fast food
  • fast track
  • acid-fast
  • fast lane
  • fast link
  • fast-talk
  • colour-fast
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  • in the fast lane idiom
  • hold/stand fast idiom
  • stand fast/firm idiom
  • fast/pace bowler phrase
  • sinking fast idiom
  • be fading away/fast idiom
  • make it quick/fast idiom
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  • English   
    • Adjective 
      • fast (QUICK)
      • fast and furious
      • fast (IMMORAL)
      • fast (FIXED)
    AdverbAdverb, adjectiveNounVerb
  • American   
    • Adjective 
      • fast (QUICK)
    • Adjective, adverb 
      • fast (ATTACHED)
    • Verb 
      • fast (NOT EAT)
    • Noun 
      • fast
    • Adverb 
      • fast (QUICKLY)
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