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Speed

noun

1.

Distance travelled per unit time. Synonym: velocity.

2.

A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens. Synonyms: fastness, swiftness.

3.

Changing location rapidly. Synonyms: hurrying, speeding.

4.

The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system. Synonyms: f number, focal ratio, stop number.

5.

A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression. Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, upper.

verb

(past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)

1.

Move fast. Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, step on it. "The cars raced down the street"

2.

Move faster. Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up.

3.

Move very fast. Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip.

4.

Travel at an excessive or illegal velocity.

5.

Cause to move faster. Synonyms: accelerate, speed up.

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"Speed" Quotes from Famous Books

... returned to the Capitol when the furious 71 soldiery arrived. They had no general to lead them: each was a law to himself. Their column marched at full speed through the Forum and past the temples overlooking it. Then in battle order they advanced up the steep hill in front of them, until they reached the lowest gates of the fortress on the Capitol. In old days there was a series of colonnades ...

— Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II • Caius Cornelius Tacitus

... out with speed and fidelity. He was allowed to quit the house without so much as a question, which left his plan for readmittance the greater likelihood of succeeding. In something less than an hour—for he hired himself a horse at the nearest post-house—he had delivered his letter to ...

— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini

... two of the most knowing Fins in all Finmark, who are now out hunting. They both want me in marriage. They are so skilful that they can hunt out traces either upon the frozen or the thawed earth, like dogs; and they can run so swiftly on skees that neither man nor beast can come near them in speed. They hit whatever they take aim at, and thus kill every man who comes near them. When they are angry the very earth turns away in terror, and whatever living thing they look upon then falls dead. Now ye must not come in their way; but I will hide you here in the hut, and ye must try ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... the Corso at Rome without any riders, in order to stimulate their exertion, carry each his own spurs namely, small balls of steel, with sharp, projecting spikes, which are attached to loose straps of leather, and, flying about in the violence of the agitation, keep the horse to his speed by pricking him as they strike against his flanks. The old woman's reproaches had the same effect on me, and urged me to a rapid pace, as if it had been possible to escape from my own recollections. In the best days of my life, when I won one or two hard walking matches, I doubt if I ever walked ...

— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott

... her off; but she was a stranger to match-making in all its bearings, had scarcely ever read a novel in her life, and was consequently not at all aware of the necessity there was for her falling in love with all convenient speed. She was therefore sometimes amused, though oftener ashamed, at Mrs. Lennox's panegyrics, and could not but smile as she thought how Aunt Jacky's wrath would have been kindled had she heard the extravagant praises that were bestowed on ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

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