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Speed   /spid/   Listen
noun
Speed  n.  
1.
Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. "For common speed." "O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day."
2.
The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel. "Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails." Note: In kinematics, speedis sometimes used to denote the amount of velocity without regard to direction of motion, while velocity is not regarded as known unless both the direction and the amount are known.
3.
One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success. (Obs.) "Hercules be thy speed!"
God speed, Good speed; prosperity. See Godspeed.
Speed gauge, Speed indicator, and Speed recorder (Mach.), devices for indicating or recording the rate of a body's motion, as the number of revolutions of a shaft in a given time.
Speed lathe (Mach.), a power lathe with a rapidly revolving spindle, for turning small objects, for polishing, etc.; a hand lathe.
Speed pulley, a cone pulley with steps.
Synonyms: Haste; swiftness; celerity; quickness; dispatch; expedition; hurry; acceleration. See Haste.


verb
Speed  v. t.  (past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)  
1.
To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. "Fortune speed us!" "With rising gales that speed their happy flight."
2.
To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. "He sped him thence home to his habitation."
3.
To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. "Judicial acts... are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties."
4.
To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. "Sped with spavins." "A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead."
5.
To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey. "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
God speed you, God speed them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed.
Synonyms: To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry.


Speed  v. i.  (past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)  
1.
To go; to fare. (Obs.) "To warn him now he is too farre sped."
2.
To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. "Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed."
3.
To fare well; to have success; to prosper. "Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!" "I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand."
4.
To make haste; to move with celerity. "I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility."
5.
To be expedient. (Obs.)





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"Speed" Quotes from Famous Books



... alone. Antoinette, as usual, was the braver of the two. Although it bored her dreadfully,—as she knew that there was no way out of it, she would go through with it, sit at the piano with a determined air, and gallop through her rondo at breakneck speed, stumbling over certain passages, make a hash of others, break off, turn her head, and say, ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... effected (as is very often the case) through the agency of a gig accident, and that, after having examined me and diagnosed my case, he selected some suitable tracts from his repertory, gave them to me, and, bidding me God-speed, ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson
... been his cry for help that made us forget our fear of the ghost, and we all ran at top speed towards the ghat. It was rather difficult to run fast on the sand but we managed it as well as we could, and stopped only when we were about half a dozen yards from the unconscious ...
— Indian Ghost Stories - Second Edition • S. Mukerji
... seemed to shake the building. But he had not quite finished his incantations,—the last part of the Concerto was yet to come,—and as soon as the hubbub of excitement had calmed down, he dashed into it with the delicious speed and joy of a lark soaring into the springtide air. And now on all sides what clear showers and sparkling coruscations of melody!—what a broad, blue sky above!—what a fair, green earth below!—how warm and odorous this radiating space, made resonant with the ring of sweet ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... negative, and, after gayly blowing a kiss to Melissa, plied his oars again with as much speed and energy as though he were rowing for a wager. How swiftly and steadily the keel of his little boat cut through the crisply foaming waves on which it rose and fell! The daring youth did not lack strength, ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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