fast in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
fast in Kashmiri कॉशुर
fast in Sindhi سنڌي
fast in Urdu اُردُو
fast in English
- fast⇄adj. 1. moving, acting, or doing with speed; quick; rapid; swift.
Ex. A fast runner can beat a slow one. As fast years flow away, The smooth brow gathers (Shelley).
(SYN) fleet, speedy, hasty.
2. showing a time ahead of the correct ti - fast⇄adv. 1. quickly; rapidly; swiftly.
Ex. Airplanes go fast. Faster than springtime showers comes thought on thought (Shakespeare).
2. firmly; securely; tightly.
Ex. Bolt the door fast. He held fast as the sled went on down the hill. The - fast⇄expr. break one's fast, to eat the first food of the day; breakfast.
Ex. My purpose is to be at Hodsden ... before I break my fast (Izaak Walton). - fast⇄expr. play fast and loose, to say one thing and do another; be tricky, insincere, or unreliable.
Ex. Obviously, [he] has been playing fast and loose with the public welfare for his own purposes (Time). - fast⇄expr. pull a fast one, (U.S. Slang.) to play a trick.
Ex. ""Kennedy pulled a fast one on us politically, but this thing could boomerang,"" one GOP leader said (Wall Street Journal). - fast⇄fast (1), adjective, adverb.
- fast⇄fast (2), verb, noun.
- fast⇄fast (3), noun.
(Nautical.) a rope or chain by which a ship is secured, as to a pier or wharf. - fast⇄noun 1. the act of fasting.
2. a day or time of fasting. - fast⇄v.i. 1. to go without food.
Ex. Jesus fasted in the wilderness. If man has enough water, he can fast from 40 to 50 days without suffering permanent injury (Ewald E. Selkurt).
2. to eat little or nothing; go without certain kinds of food. <