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fast
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What does fast mean?
adjective
- Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
- Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid; light.
More meanings (31)
adjective
- Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
- Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
- Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
- Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
- Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- More sensitive to light than average.
- An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: frequently discussed, ambitious, specific, transparent.
- (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
- (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
- (dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
- (dated, offensive) Uncharacteristically mature or promiscuous for one's age.
noun
- A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.
- The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food.
- Any of the fasting periods in the liturgical year.
- Acronym of focused assessment with sonography for trauma.
- Acronym of firefighter assist and search team.
- Acronym of free advertising-supported streaming television
interjection
- Ellipsis of stand fast, a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
adverb
- In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
- Deeply or soundly .
- Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
- Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
verb
- To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
- To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
- To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.
phrase
- Acronym of facial drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, time, a mnemonic for diagnosing a CVA or stroke.
proper noun
- Initialism of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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But she didn’t get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself.
Out of this there arose, during the spring succeeding, a talk in the parish that Gabriel Oak was feathering his nest fast.
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Then the boy stretched himself upon the grass beside the Pumpkinhead, and being greatly wearied by the journey was soon fast asleep.
But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight.
Tarzan had not broken fast this day, and it was many miles to where lay the toothsome remains of Horta the boar.