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fast
1. adj. Rapide.
2. adj. (Plus rare) Bien attaché (apparenté au mot fastened (attaché)).
The roots are fast. I can't pull them out.
3. v. Vite.
Run run as fast as you can
4. v. Bien attaché (apparenté au mot fastened, « attaché »).
The door is held fast. I can't open it.
5. n. Jeûne.
6. v. Jeûner.
anglais > anglais
fast
1. adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
2. adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
3. adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend.)
4. adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
I am going to buy a fast car.
5. adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table; a fast dance floor
6. adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
7. adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
8. adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast.
9. adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
10. adj. (dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
a fast woman
11. adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
12. adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
13. adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound.
Hold this rope as fast as you can.
14. adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
He is fast asleep.
15. adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
The horsemen came fast on our heels.
16. adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
Do it as fast as you can.
17. adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
I think my watch is running fast.
18. n. (UK, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
19. interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target
20. v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or med
Muslims fast during Ramadan and Catholics during Lent.
21. n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
22. n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.
Lent and Ramadan are fasts of two religions.
français > anglais
rapide
1. adj. fast, rapid
2. adv. (informal) fast; rapidly; quickly
3. n-m. (especially in plural) rapid (stretch of river)
4. n-m. express (fast train)

Exemples de phrases

She read the letter with her heart beating fast.      Elle lut la lettre, le cœur palpitant. How fast you walk!      Qu'est-ce que tu marches vite! I'm tired of eating fast food.      J'en ai marre de manger du fast-food. You talk so fast I can't understand a word you say.      Tu parles tellement vite que je ne comprends pas un mot de ce que tu dis. He is too fast.      Il est trop rapide.

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