rapid
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Definitions & Usage
Very swift or quick.
Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
(England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
(obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
(archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.
(usually in the plural) A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
(dated) A burst of rapid fire.
(chess) Ellipsis of rapid chess.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.”
— 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
“The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?”
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
“Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."”
— 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30: