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Definition: Very Fast |
Very FastAdverb1. In a relatively short time; "she finished the assignment in no time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Very FastSynonym: in no time (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Very Fast |
| English words defined with "very fast": blistering, bluetick ♦ civilise, civilize ♦ develop ♦ fleet ♦ hot, hurry ♦ modernise, modernize ♦ presto, pulsar ♦ RAM disk, rapid, red-hot ♦ speed, sprint, swift ♦ To run up, travel rapidly ♦ vivace ♦ whip through, winged ♦ zip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "very fast": Ackermann's function, Alta Vista ♦ chain radar beacon, Clipping Pace, Commodore 1581 ♦ hypersonic ♦ Old Boots ♦ RCA 1802 ♦ straight line it. (references) |
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Screenplays | We've come very far, very fast. (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) Everyone speaks very loud, and very fast, and nobody listens to anybody else, with the result that nothing ever gets done (1776; writing credit: Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone) | |
Lyrics | Fancy cars that go very fast (Express Yourself; performing artist: Madonna) | |
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| A very fast swing work featuring an alto saxophone. | |
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Thomas Jefferson | Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They went, however, very fast. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In a little time I observed the noise of flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign post on a windy day. |
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Health | Electrical signals in the atria are fired in a very fast and uncontrolled manner. (references) | |
The heart may seem to skip a beat or beat irregularly or very fast or very slowly. (references) | ||
In paroxysmal tachycardia, repeated periods of very fast heartbeats begin and end suddenly. (references) | ||
Business | Billiard parlors are mushrooming in the country at a very fast rate. The sport is affordable and accessible to most economic class levels. (references) | |
This segment will undergo very fast development due to the growing number of companies specializing in it as well as the overall impact it is having on core business. (references) | ||
Within the past ten years, the telecommunications sector of Vietnam has developed very fast. For example, there were only eight international lines for overseas calls in the 1980s compared to nearly 5,760 lines currently. (references) | ||
Economic History | Guatemala | Obtaining Foreign Government Approval (FGA) for OPIC applicants has generally been very fast. (references) |
Hong Kong | The pace is very fast, and business deals that take more than 24 hours to complete can be considered slow and therefore of low priority. (references) | |
Finland | Exports grew very fast in 2000, but the 2001 rate of growth is expected to slow down substantially as the outlook is weak in many sectors. (references) | |
Trade | France | The recognition and use of ISO 9000 in France is expanding at a very fast pace. (references) |
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Robert Atkins | The diet is in four stages. The induction works very fast but you don't stay on it very long. It is just to get things started. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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lose weight easily very fast | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "very fast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 飛快 (at lightning speed). (various references) | |
Danish | ved udslip fordamper denne væske meget hurtigt og forårsager overmætning af luften med alvorlig risiko for kvælning,hvis det sker inden døre (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
Dutch | bij vrijkomen van deze vloeistof kan door verdamping de lucht in besloten ruimten snel worden verdrongen met ernstig gevaar voor verstikking (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
French | une concentration dangereuse de ce gaz dans l'air est très vite atteinte s'il s'échappe de son contenant (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), refroidissement très rapide de la viande de boeuf (very fast chilling in beef), en s'échappant de son contenant,ce liquide s'évapore très vite provoquant une sursaturation de l'air avec de sérieux risques d'asphyxie l'intérieur d'un espace confiné (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
German | Hochgeschwindigkeitskühlung von Rindfleisch (very fast chilling in beef), eine schädliche Konzentration des Gases in der Luft kann beim Entweichen aus dem Behälter sehr schnell erreicht werden (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), beim Entweichen aus dem Behälter verdampft die Flüssigkeit sehr schnell,wobei die Luft verdrängt wird.Ernste Erstickungsgefahr in geschlossenen Räumen! (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
Greek | σε περίπτωση διαφυγής η συγκέντρωση του αερίου αυτού στον αέρα θα γίνει πολύ γρήγορα επιβλαβής (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), σε περίπτωση διαφυγής το υγρό αυτό εξατμίζεται πολύ γρήγορα προκαλώντας υπερκορεσμό του αέρα με σοβαρό κίνδυνο ασφυξίας σε περιορισμένο χ (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
Italian | congelamento molto rapido nel manzo (very fast chilling in beef), a causa di una perdita di tenuta si può formare molto velocemente una concentrazione dannosa di questo gas nell'aria (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), a causa di una perdita di tenuta questo liquido evapora molto velocemente provocando una soprasaturazione dell'aria con seri rischi di soffocamento in aree confinate (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 見る見る (in a twinkle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みるみる (in a twinkle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eryvay astfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | no caso de fugas,este líquido evapora muito rapidamente causando sobressaturação do ar com sérios riscos de sufocação se em locais fechados (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas), no caso de fugas,atinge-se muito rapidamente uma concentração nociva deste gás no ar (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment). (various references) | |
Spanish | congelación ultrarrápida de la carne de ternera (very fast chilling in beef), al producirse una pérdida de gas se alcanzará muy rápidamente una concentración perjudicial de éste en el aire (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), al producirse pérdidas en zonas confinadas este líquido se evapora muy rápidamente originando una sobresaturación del aire con grave riesgo de asfixia (on loss of containment this liquid evaporates very fast causing supersaturation of the air with serious risk of suffocation when in confined areas). (various references) | |
Turkish | çok hızlı (at rare bat, fortissimo, lightning, meteoric, on the wings of the wind, very quickly). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: afters, averts, estray, faster, safety, starve, stayer, strafe, traves, vaster, vestry, yarest. | |
-3 letters: after, artsy, aster, avers, avert, eyras, faery, fares, fates, faves, fears, feast, feats, fetas, frats, frays, frets, rafts, rates, raves, resay, safer, satyr, saver, sayer, stare, stave, stray, tares, tears, teary, trave, trays, treys, tyers, tyres, vasty, verst, verts. | |
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