fast
fast
- n abstaining from food
- v abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
Catholics sometimes fast during Lent - v abstain from eating
Before the medical exam, you must fast - a acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
fast film
on the fast track in school
set a fast pace
a fast car - a (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
my watch is fast - a at a rapid tempo
the band played a fast fox trot - s (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
a fast road
grass courts are faster than clay - s resistant to destruction or fading
fast colors - s unrestrained by convention or morality
fast women - s hurried and brief
a fast visit - s securely fixed in place
- s unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
fast friends - s (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
a fast lens - r quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
how fast can he get here?
ran as fast as he could
needs medical help fast
fast-running rivers
fast-breaking news
fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters - r firmly or closely
held fast to the rope
her foot was stuck fast
- Self-accelerating technologies--computers that make faster computers, for example--may have a destabilizing effect on society.
- Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar, has long led to peculiar .
- After Inter Milan soccer star Sulley Montari s fasting prompted his coach, Jose Mourinho, to remove him from a game, the traditional Muslim holy month of Ramadan is back in the .