speed
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(noun) changing location rapidly |
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Synonyms: hastening, hurrying, speeding |
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Related Words: acceleration, motion, move, movement, quickening, scud, scudding, speedup |
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(verb) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; "I got a ticket for speeding" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed" |
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Synonyms: fastness, swiftness |
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Related Words: acceleration, deceleration, execution speed, graduality, gradualness, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, pace, rate, retardation, slowing |
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(noun) distance travelled per unit time |
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Synonyms: velocity |
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Related Words: airspeed, c, escape velocity, groundspeed, hypervelocity, light speed, muzzle velocity, rate, speed of light, steerageway, terminal velocity |
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(verb) cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" |
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Synonyms: accelerate, speed up |
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(verb) move very fast |
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Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip |
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Related Words: dart, fleet, flit, flutter, go, locomote, move, run, travel, whizz, whizz along, zoom, zoom along |
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(verb) move faster; "The car accelerated" |
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Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up |
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Related Words: brisk, brisk up, brisken, deepen, intensify |
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(noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression |
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Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, upper |
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Related Words: Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Methedrine, amphetamine sulphate, bennie, deoxyephedrine, dextroamphetamine sulphate, drug of abuse, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, stimulant, street drug |
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(noun) the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system |
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Synonyms: f number, focal ratio, stop number |
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Related Words: ratio |
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(verb) step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" |
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Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along |
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Related Words: barge, buck, charge, dart, dash, flash, go, locomote, move, push forward, scoot, scud, shoot, shoot down, tear, thrust ahead, travel |
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