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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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"Fast" Quotes from Famous Books



... had risen again, indeed, and the action was soon fast enough for the most impatient that day. No sooner had the town heard with bated breath of the expulsion of the first citizen from the inner sanctuary of the post-office, than the news of another event began to go the rounds. Mr. Worthington had other and more important things ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... a sweet little creature, and at the time my story begins was about eight years old, I think, but she got older very fast. Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue. Those eyes you would have thought must have known they came from there, so often were they turned up in that direction. The ceiling of her nursery ...
— The Princess and the Goblin • George MacDonald

... to nourish the young, (See chapter on Pollen,) or when, for any reason, she judges it not best to deposit them in cells, she stands upon a comb, and simply extrudes them from her oviduct, and the workers devour them as fast as they are laid! This I have repeatedly witnessed in my observing hives, and admired the sagacity of the queen in economizing her necessary work after this fashion, instead of laboriously depositing the eggs in cells where they are not ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth

... and through his tears Looks on the fire-enamell'd spheres, Where with his Saviour he would be Lifted above mortality. Meanwhile the golden stars do set, And the slow pilgrim leave all wet With his own tears, which flow so fast They make his sleeps light, and soon past. By this, the sun o'er night deceas'd Breaks in fresh blushes from the East, When, mindful of his former falls, With strong cries to his God he calls, And with such deep-drawn sighs doth move That He turns anger ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan

... and they knew it well; and they came out at once, in twos and threes and sixes, men and women and children, all striving to reach the welcome food. As fast as I could take them from the basket, I handed three to each eager applicant, until all were speedily disposed of. When the basket was empty, the hungry crowd that had none was far greater than that which had been supplied; but they were too late, there were no ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous


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