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Fast
Fast Fast, a.
In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make
possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast
racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table,
etc.
FastFast Fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.
Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting. FastFast Fast, adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS.
f[ae]ste. See Fast, a.]
1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly;
firmly; immovably.
We will bind thee fast. --Judg. xv.
13.
2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly;
extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand.
He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood
fast by. --Milton.
Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. --Pope. FastFast Fast, a. [Compar. Faster; superl. Fastest.] [OE.,
firm, strong, not loose, AS. f?st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast,
OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and
perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of
keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf.
Fast, adv., Fast, v., Avast.]
1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose,
unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the
door.
There is an order that keeps things fast. --Burke.
2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
impregnable; strong.
Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser.
3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]
Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
smells. --Bacon.
6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak.
7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
horse.
8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
fast liver. --Thackeray.
Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant,
esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play
fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy
or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another.
``Play fast and loose with faith.' --Shak.
Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by
side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another
shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage
the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be
stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to
the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and
vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be
immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as
a vessel, a rope, or a door. Fast
Fast Fast, n.
That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring
rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position,
a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on
a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
Fast
Fast Fast, n. [OF. fust, F. f?t, fr. L. fustis stick staff.]
(Arch.)
The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. --Gwilt.
Meaning of Fasts from wikipedia
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political leader Gandhi undertook several long
fasts as
political and
social protests. Gandhi's
fasts had a
significant impact on the
British Raj and...
- the
Nation in India,
undertook 18
fasts during India's
freedom movement. His
longest fasts lasted 21 days.
Fasting was a
weapon used by
Gandhi as part...
- as the
Federation of
Australian Scientific and
Technological Societies (
FASTS), is an
organisation representing the
interests of more than 90,000 Australian...
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Fast & Furious, also
known as The
Fast and the Furious, is an
American media franchise centered on a
series of
action films that are
largely concerned...
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observed fasts to
appease their gods.
Former nations such as ****yrians and
Babylonians observed fasting as a form of penance. Jews
observe fasting as a form...
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faster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Faster or
FASTER may
refer to: "
Faster" (George
Harrison song) "
Faster" (Matt
Nathanson song) "
Faster" (Within...
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Fast bowling (also
referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main
approaches to
bowling in the
sport of cricket, the
other being spin bowling. Practitioners...
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matters of the
fasts and
their cry", but this
refers instead to the
fasts mentioned in
Zechariah 8:19. The
first mention of the
fast of
Esther is as...
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Seventeenth of
Tammuz (Shiva Asar B'Tammuz,
minor fast) The
minor fasts are
mentioned in the
Bible as
fasts in
memory of the
destruction of the
First Temple...
- Solbhathu: No food for
constant 16 days, only
boiled water.
Great fasts are
fasts for
months at a time. Maaskshaman: To give up food and
water or only...
