fast

Meaning

Adj

1. Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
3. Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
4. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
5. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
6. Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
7. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
8. Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
9. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
10. Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
11. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
12. Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
13. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
14. More sensitive to light than average.

Adv

1. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
2. Deeply or soundly .
3. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
4. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
5. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.

Noun

A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations

Intj

Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target

Verb

1. To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
2. To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
3. (academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating.

Noun

1. The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food
2. One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɑːst/

Etymology

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

Sentences

He was going too fast by a long shot .

How fast is your motorbike ?