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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" Antonym: slow.

2.

(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time. Antonym: slow.

3.

At a rapid tempo. Antonym: slow.

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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... I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, and heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seems to have laid fast hold of most of them. That speculation—peculation—and an insatiable thirst for riches seems to have got the better of every other consideration and almost of every order of men. That party disputes and personal quarrels are ...

— George Washington • William Roscoe Thayer

... abstract terms of a language are not so distinctly apprehended as the more concrete, and in the course of ages are more liable to change. The habit, universal among the writers of the Scriptures from the most ancient to the latest, of making abstract moral conceptions fast to pillars of natural objects and current facts, has contributed much to fix the doctrines like fossils for all time, and so to diminish the area of controversy. All the more steadily and safely has revealed truth come down from the earliest time to the present day, that it has in ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... measure, almost as late indeed as Napoleon's proposition to send me as his Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland. In now accepting office I was well convinced of the inutility of any effort that might be made to arrest the progress of the fast approaching and menacing events. Being introduced into the King's cabinet his Majesty asked me what I thought of the situation of affairs. "I think, Sire, that Bonaparte will be here in five or six days."—"What, sir?"—"Yes, Sire."—"But ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... and I bore straight for them. Raced to see who would first back, and I won. Backed a big bull, and Silva gave him the iron deep. He flurried without sounding, and I did not have to lance. Garboy backed his whale and Lord Joe made a poor cast, and they lost the fish. I backed a cow, and made fast. She sounded, but we overhauled at her first blow, and I lanced. Short flurry. Two fish in ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

... the Solomon Group, waiting for her boat. Von Hammer and four hands had gone ashore to land supplies for a trader, and the brig was awaiting his return. There was a heavy sea running on the reef as the boat pushed off from the beach in the fast-gathering darkness; but who minds such things with a native crew? So thought Von Hammer as he grasped the long, swaying steer oar, and swung the whale-boat's head to the white line of surf. 'Give it to her, boys; now's our chance—there's a bit of a lull now, eh, ...

— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke

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