Definition of "fast" in İngilizce

adjective

(dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
- That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
(of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid; light.
- I am going to buy a fast car.
Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
- a fast racket, or tennis court
- a fast track
- a fast billiard table
- a fast dance floor
(computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
(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.
(obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
(dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
- a fast woman
(offensive, vernacular, dated, of a girl or young woman) Uncharacteristically mature or promiscuous for one's age.
Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
(of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.

noun

(British, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.

interjection

(archery) Ellipsis of stand fast, a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.

adverb

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.
(of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .
- The princess was sleeping fast, and her servants were fast asleep too.
Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
- The horsemen came fast on our heels.

verb

(intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
- 1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18). And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?
(intransitive) To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
(transitive, sciences) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.
- At 11 weeks of age, all mice were fasted overnight and underwent gallbladder ultrasonography to determine ejection fraction.
- Kittens, when fasted overnight, were not hypoglycemic (<60 mg/dl).

noun

The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food.
- 1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18). And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?
Any of the fasting periods in the liturgical year.
- 1662 Peter Gunning, The Holy Fast of Lent Defended Against All Its Prophaners: Or, a Discourse, Shewing that Lent-Fast was First Taught the World by the Apostles (1677 [1662]), p. 13 (translation of the Paschal Epistle of Theophilus of Alexandria). And so may we enter the Fasts at hand, beginning Lent the 30th. day of the Month Mechir