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Fast   /fæst/   Listen
adverb
Fast  adv.  
1.
In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. "We will bind thee fast."
2.
In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand. "He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by." "Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides."


adjective
Fast  adj.  (compar. faster; superl. fastest)  
1.
Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door. "There is an order that keeps things fast."
2.
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. "Outlaws... lurking in woods and fast places."
3.
Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
4.
Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
5.
Tenacious; retentive. (Obs.) "Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells."
6.
Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound. "All this while in a most fast sleep."
7.
Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
8.
Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
9.
In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another. "Play fast and loose with faith."
Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reengage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.


noun
Fast  n.  
1.
Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. "Surfeit is the father of much fast."
2.
Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
3.
A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God.
To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast.


Fast  n.  That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.


verb
Fast  v. i.  (past & past part. fasted; pres. part. fasting)  
1.
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. "Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked."
2.
To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. "Thou didst fast and weep for the child."
Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.





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"Fast" Quotes from Famous Books



... murdered him and buried him in the grave they had prepared for him. The deed done, spite of all their precaution fear fell on them and hatred, and they fled from the house where the corpse was and from each other, one to the north, one to the south. Fled they ever so fast, or so far apart, justice followed to the north, justice followed to the south, and dragged the miscreants together again and flung them into one prison. They were convicted and condemned to death. There came a fatal morning to this guilty pair, when the sun rose upon them and ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... tore his hair, stamped on the ground, and vowed the utmost vengeance on all who had been concerned. He then pulled off his coat, and buttoned it round her, put his hat upon her head, wiped the blood from her face as well as he could with his handkerchief, and called out to the servant to ride as fast as possible for a side-saddle, or a pillion, that he might carry her ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... should have a good dowry—quite proud to be of some use to the convent. I didn't think what I might have done for myself, if I'd been in the world—not then. But afterward, thoughts crept into my head. I used to push them out again as fast as they crawled in, and I told myself what a good thing I had a safe refuge, remembering my father, what he wrote about ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... of Christ, so many wounds does he inflict upon Satan. What he writes in his cell will be carried far and wide over distant provinces. Man multiplies the word of Heaven: if I may dare so to speak, the three fingers of his right hand are made to represent the utterances of the Holy Trinity. The fast travelling reed writes down the holy words, thus avenging the malice of the wicked one, who caused a reed to be used to smite the ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... an hour. The nurse laid down the volume with a yawn, stretched herself, yawned again, crossed her hands, and closed her eyes. She was going to sleep. If she would only fall so fast asleep that the woman behind the curtain ...
— Blind Love • Wilkie Collins


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