How many different meaning for the word fast?

Answer 1

adjective

1. moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.

2. done in comparatively little time; taking a comparatively short time: a fast race; fast work.

3. (of time)

a. indicating a time in advance of the correct time, as of a clock.

b. noting or according to daylight-saving time.

4. adapted to, allowing, productive of, or imparting rapid movement: a hull with fast lines; one of the fastest pitchers in Baseball.

5. characterized by unrestrained conduct or lack of moral conventions, esp. in sexual relations; wanton; loose: Some young people in that era were considered fast, if not downright promiscuous.

6. characterized by hectic activity: leading a fast life.

7. resistant: acid-fast.

8. firmly fixed in place; not easily moved; securely attached.

9. held or caught firmly, so as to be unable to escape or be extricated: an animal fast in a trap.

10. firmly tied, as a knot.

11. closed and made secure, as a door, gate, or shutter.

12. such as to hold securely: to lay fast hold on a thing.

13. firm in adherence; loyal; devoted: fast friends.

14. permanent, lasting, or unchangeable: a fast color; a hard and fast rule.

15. Informal .

a. (of money, profits, etc.) made quickly or easily and sometimes deviously: He earned some fast change helping the woman with her luggage.

b. cleverly quick and manipulative in making money: a fast operator when it comes to closing a business deal.

16. Photography .

a. (of a lens) able to transmit a relatively large amount of light in a relatively short time.

b. (of a film) requiring a relatively short exposure time to attain a given density.

17. Horse Racing .

a. (of a track condition) completely dry.

b. (of a track surface) very hard.

adverb

18. quickly, swiftly, or rapidly.

19. in quick succession: Events followed fast upon one another to the crisis.

20. tightly; firmly: to hold fast.

21. soundly: fast asleep.

22. in a wild or dissipated way.

23. ahead of the correct or announced time.

24. Archaic . close; near: fast by.

noun

25. a fastening for a door, window, or the like.

Idioms

26. play fast and loose. play ( def. 80 ) .

27. pull a fast one, Informal . to play an unfair trick; practice deceit: He tried to pull a fast one on us by switching the cards.

Answer 2

quick, rapid, accelerated, speedy, swift