Dictionary Definition
fast adj
1 acting or moving or capable of acting or moving
quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast
pace"; "a fast car" [ant: slow]
2 (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of
or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast" [ant: slow]
3 at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox
trot" [ant: slow]
4 (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a
fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"
5 firmly fastened or secured against opening;
"windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the
house properly secured" [syn: barred, bolted, latched, locked, secured]
6 resistant to destruction or fading; "fast
colors"
7 unrestrained by convention or morality;
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous]
8 hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took
a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
[syn: flying, quick]
9 securely fixed in place; "the post was still
firm after being hit by the car" [syn: firm, immobile]
10 unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or
cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted
soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison;
"fast friends" [syn: firm,
loyal, truehearted, fast(a)] n :
abstaining from food [syn: fasting] adv
1 quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining
form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could";
"needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking
news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"
2 firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope";
"her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" [syn: tight]
Verb
1 abstain from certain foods, as for religious or
medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"
2 abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam,
you must fast"
User Contributed Dictionary
See also -fast
English
Extensive Definition
Fast may refer to:
- Fasting, abstaining from food
- Nacional Fast Clube, a Brazilian football club
- A speed racing for dirt horse racetracks
- Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
- Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
- "Fast", an album by the musician Custom
- Fast Product, a record label
- Brian Leiser, nicknamed Fast, a musician in the band Fun Lovin' Criminals
FAST may stand for:
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
- Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
- Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools (FAST) Project, a STREP Project supported by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme
- FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
- Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
- Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
- The NASDAQ symbol for Fastenal company
- Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition
- USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
- Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
- Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps
- Flexible Architecture for Simulation and Testing, a Stanford project for prototyping novel computer architecture ideas
- Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
- Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, Pakistan
- Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade
- Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
- Farmington Area Swim Team
See also
fast in German:
FAST
fast in Dutch:
FAST
fast in Japanese:
ファスト
fast in Portuguese:
FAST
fast in Simple English:
Fast
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Barmecidal feast, Encratism, Friday, Lenten diet, Lenten
entertainment, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Sabbath, Shakerism, Spartan fare,
Stoicism, Sunday, abandoned, abstain, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, accelerated, active, agile, aground, airtight, alert, amain, anchored, apace, ardent, asceticism, at flank speed,
attached, avoidance, balanced, banyan day, bare
subsistence, bonded,
bound, bread and water,
breakneck, brief, brisk, briskly, calculable, caught, celibacy, cemented, chained, chastity, chronic, church calendar,
close, close to, closely, colorfast, committed, compact, confirmed, connected, constant, continence, cool, dashing, debauched, dedicated, deep-dyed,
deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled,
dependable, devoted, diet, dissipated, dissolute, dissolutely, double-dyed,
double-quick, dustproof, dusttight, dyed-in-the-wool,
eagle-winged, eat sparingly, ecclesiastical calendar, eschewal, established, expeditious, expeditiously, express, extravagant, extravagantly, fadeless, faithful, faithworthy, fastened, fasting, feast, fecklessly, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firmly, fish day, fixed, fixedly, flat-out, fleet, flying, free, fruitarianism, full tilt,
gallant, galloping, gasproof, gastight, gay, glued, go hungry, grounded, gymnosophy, hair-trigger,
hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hasty, headlong, held, hell for leather, hell-bent,
hell-bent for election, hermetic, hermetically sealed,
high and dry, high-speed, holy day, holytide, hurried, hurriedly, hustling, immediately, immoral, immovable, immovably, impacted, imperturbable, implanted, in a flash, in a
twinkling, in a wink, in double time, in double-quick time, in
equilibrium, in high, in high gear, in nothing flat, in
seven-league boots, in short order, incorrigible, inculcated, indecorous, indecorously, indelible, inextricable, infixed, ingrain, ingrained, inseparably, instilled, intemperate, intemperately, inveterate, invincible, irresponsible, irreversible, jammed, keen, lack of food, lasting, lecherous, lecherously, licentious, licentiously, lickety-cut,
lickety-split, liege,
light of heel, light-footed, lightproof, lighttight, like a flash,
like a shot, like wildfire, lively, long-established,
loose, loosely, loyal, lustful, lustfully, meager diet,
mercurial, moored, near, nephalism, nimble, nimble-footed, not eat,
of easy virtue, oilproof, oiltight, on the double,
packed, permanent, plain living,
post, posthaste, precipitate, predictable, presto, profligate, promiscuous, promiscuously, prompt, promptly, pronto, quick, quick as lightning, quick
as thought, quickly,
rainproof, raintight, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, raking, rakish, rapid, rapidly, reckless, recklessly, refraining, refrainment, reliable, resolute, right, rooted, running, sealed, secure, secured, securely, self-denial,
self-indulgent, set,
settled, settled in
habit, sexual abstinence, short commons, shut fast, simple diet,
smokeproof, smoketight, snappily, snappy, snug, solid, solidly, soon, sound, soundly, spanking, spare diet, speedily, speedy, stable, starvation diet, staunch, steadfast, steadfastly, steady, stormproof, stormtight, stranded, strong, stuck, stuck fast, substantial, sure, surefire, swift, swiftly, sybaritic, sybaritically, taped, teetotalism, tested, tethered, the pledge, thorough, tied, tight, tightly, total abstinence,
transfixed, tried, tried and true, trippingly, true, trustworthy, trusty, unbridled, under forced draft,
unfading, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unshakable, unshakably, unshakeable, unshakeably, unwavering, vegetarianism, wanton, wantonly, water-repellant,
waterproof, watertight, wedged, well-balanced,
well-founded, well-grounded, whip and spur, wild, wildly, windproof, windtight, winged, with all haste, with all
speed, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed, without
nerves, xerophagia,
xerophagy