rapid
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French rapide, from Latin rapidus.
Pronunciation Adjectiverapid
- Very swift or quick.
- a rapid stream
- rapid growth
- rapid improvement
- 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 ↗:
- Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →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?
- 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.
- French: rapide
- German: schnell
- Italian: rapido, deciso
- Portuguese: rápido
- Russian: бы́стрый
- Spanish: rápido
rapid
- (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.
rapid (plural rapids)
- (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.
- Coordinate term: riffle
- (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
- (chess) Short for rapid chess.
- French: rapides
- German: Stromschnelle
- Italian: rapida, cataratta
- Portuguese: corredeira
- Russian: стремни́на
- Spanish: rápido, rabión
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