Rapid
['ræpɪd]
Definition
(noun.) a part of a river where the current is very fast.
(adj.) done or occurring in a brief period of time; 'a rapid rise through the ranks' .
(adj.) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; 'a rapid movement'; 'a speedy car'; 'a speedy errand boy' .
Checker: Lucy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
(a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
(a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
(a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Swift, quick, speedy, fleet, fast, expeditious.
Checker: Marge
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying
ANT:Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy
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Definition
adj. hurrying along: very swift: speedy.—n. that part of a river where the current is most rapid (gen. in pl.).—n. Rapid′ity quickness of motion or utterance: swiftness: velocity.—adv. Rap′idly.—n. Rap′idness.
Typist: Nicholas
Unserious Contents or Definition
To imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.
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Examples
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That rapid medley of sounds, and lo! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The buzzer, R, is maintained in rapid vibration by its independent auxiliary battery, B<1S>. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The rapid-fire gun here shown is a model of a three-inch field gun mounted upon a special carriage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The long habit of rapid transitions made it easy for her to exclaim to the Duchess: Why, I thought you'd gone back to the Princess! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The process of extermination in such cases would be rapid, whereas the production of new species must always be slow. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thought the perfection of rapid transit had been reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The professor had been stricken dumb with surprise by the rapid developments of the past few minutes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Spread the sail, and strain with oar, hurrying by dark impending crags, adown steep rapids, even to the sea of desolation I have reached. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Upon its arrival from Grand Rapids, in the fall of 1893, lacking a more suitable place, the motor was brought direct to my home and set up in the kitchen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, pulled up by ropes from the shore. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I ordered a one-horse-power marine upright, two-cycle gasoline engine from the Sintz Gas Engine Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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