speed

[speed]

Speed most often describes acceleration or a high rate of motion. When something picks up too much speed, it can run off course, like a kid on a bike zooming uncontrollably down a steep hill.

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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

Noun
changing location rapidly

Noun
a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression

Noun
a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"

Noun
the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system

Noun
distance travelled per unit time

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Verb
move faster; "The car accelerated"

Verb
cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car"

Verb
move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"

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travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; "I got a ticket for speeding"

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step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"


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.


Speed

Speed , n. [AS. spd success, swiftness, from spwan to succeed; akin to D. spoedd, OHG. spuot success, spuot to succees, Skr. sph'be to increase, grow fat. &root;170b.] 1. Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. "For common speed." Chaucer.
O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.
2. The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails.
&hand; In kinematics, speedis sometimes used to denote the amount of velocity without regard to direction of motion, while velocity is not regarded as known unless both the direction and the amount are known. 3. One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success. [Obs.] "Hercules be thy speed!" Shak. God speed, Good speed; prosperity. See Godspeed. -- Speed gauge, Speed indicator, ∧ Speed recorder (Mach.), devices for indicating or recording the rate of a body's motion, as the number of revolutions of a shaft in a given time. -- Speed lathe (Mach.), a power lathe with a rapidly revolving spindle, for turning small objects, for polishing, etc.; a hand lathe. -- Speed pulley, a cone pulley with steps. Syn. -- Haste; swiftness; celerity; quickness; dispatch; expedition; hurry; acceleration. See Haste.

Speed

Speed , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sped , Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding.] [AS. spdan, fr. spd, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n.] 1. To go; to fare. [Obs.]
To warn him now he is too farre sped.
2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. Shak.
Ships heretofore in seas lke fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!
I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand.
4. To make haste; to move with celerity.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
5. To be expedient. [Obs.] Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)

Speed

Speed, v. t. 1. To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. "Fortune speed us!" Shak.
With rising gales that speed their happy flight.
2. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
He sped him thence home to his habitation.
3. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
4. To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. "Sped with spavins." Shak.
A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
5. To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Welkome the coming, speed the parting guest.
God speed you, them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed. Syn. -- To depatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry.

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

To go; to fare.

To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.

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Usage Examples

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

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Other Usage Examples

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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