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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



... and left. He soon had to give up thought of finding them, but made the coachman turn round and round again. All day he drove about, far into the country, and kept urging the driver to use greater speed. He was in a strange state of hurry and elation. Finally, he dined at a little country inn; and this gave the measure of ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... out for the buoys, sir," said the gruff-voiced man, as the breeze freshened up and the heavy boat quickened her speed. ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... it inside of thirty days, when our stops aren't too long," returned the captain. "Of course the P. & O. liners, being mail-carriers, do it in much less time. But they're built for speed, and make fewer stops. Then, we tramp steamers always give them the right of ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... smooth ground at a good pace—we shall save time to spare when we come to the difficult places," observed Ernest to Buttar, as they were waiting for the Doctor's signal to start. It was given—and away they went; steady at first, but gradually increasing their speed as they found that they could easily draw breath. They met with no impediments in the way. They easily leaped the brooks they encountered. The old couple in Ashby-lane stared at them, and wondered where ...
— Ernest Bracebridge - School Days • William H. G. Kingston
... of heaven. But in the soul of man alone is this longing changed to certainty and fulfilled. For lo! thelight of the sun and the stars shines through the air, and is nowhere visible and seen; the planets hasten with more than the speed of the storm through infinite space, and their footsteps are not heard, but where the sunlight strikes the firm surface of the planets, where the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff, there is the one seen and the other heard. Thus is the glory of God made visible, and ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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