Speed
[spiːd] or [spid]
Definition
(noun.) changing location rapidly.
(noun.) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; 'the project advanced with gratifying speed'.
(noun.) distance travelled per unit time.
(verb.) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; 'I got a ticket for speeding'.
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Definition
(n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
(n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
(n.) To go; to fare.
(n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
(n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
(n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
(n.) To be expedient.
(v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
(v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
(v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
(v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
(v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Make haste.[2]. Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish.[3]. Fare, get on.
v. a. [1]. Hasten, expedite, accelerate, hurry, despatch, quicken, precipitate, forward, urge or press forward, urge or press on.[2]. Assist, help, aid, help forward.[3]. Prosper, favor, make successful.
n. [1]. Haste, hurry, despatch, celerity, swiftness, fleetness, velocity, quickness, rapidity, expedition.[3]. Success, prosperity, good fortune, good luck, favorable issue.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Despatch, expedite, accelerate, urge, hasten, hurry, press
ANT:Retard, delay, postpone, obstruct, drag, loiter, dawdle, linger, lag, stay
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Definition
n. quickness velocity: success.—v.i. to move quickly to hurry: to succeed to fare.—v.t. to despatch quickly: to hasten as to a conclusion: to cause to advance to push forward: to give a certain speed to regulate the speed of: to send off to put forth to rid of to kill: to cause to be relieved (only in passive): to execute: to aid: to make prosperous:—pr.p. speed′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. sped.—n. Speed′er one who or that which promotes speed.—adj. Speed′ful speedy.—advs. Speed′fully; Speed′ily.—ns. Speed′iness speed haste; Speed′-pull′ey a pulley having different faces of different diameters giving various speeds according to the face the belt passes over; Speed′well (Veronica) a genus of plants of the natural order Scrophulariace with blue white or pink flowers the leaves of some species used medicinally.—adj. Speed′y hasty: quick: nimble.
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Examples
- On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This, in turn, has opened up possibilities of much higher speed and greater efficiency in the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But in the height of the confusion, a mounted man galloped away to order the relays, and our horses were put to with great speed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It moved entirely under its own power, could climb hills and could travel on the level road at speeds which had never before been exhibited by vehicles of that type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It ran up with his weight, tight as a bow-string, and swift as the arrow it speeds. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Device for examining combinations of odors and their changes by rotation at different speeds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He doubled the production inside three months, without materially increasing the pay-roll, by increasing the cutting speeds of tools, and by the use of various devices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Improved clutches, gear ratios which permit varying speeds, double-braking systems and electric lights are present-day refinements which add zest to the sport of motorcycling. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She came speeding over the sea like a great bird. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As it turned out, however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous flight at high speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But Sheridan turned both his flanks and again sent him speeding up the valley, following in hot pursuit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the press itself, and its servitors and messengers, speeding on the wings of electricity, are the children of the inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And far to the east Tarzan of the Apes was speeding through the middle terrace back to his tribe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But as the quality of the print must be retained, there is a limit in this speeding beyond which it is not safe to go. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The rope sped with singing whir high above the heads of the blacks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But the hour sped on and Selden did not come. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Tarzan waited no longer, but leaping into the branches of the trees sped rapidly through the forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Caroline sped like levelled shaft from bent bow; after her rang a jesting, gibing laugh. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Still and for ever did the earth roll on, enthroned in her atmospheric car, speeded by the force of the invisible coursers of never-erring necessity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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