speeding
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/
- present participle of speed#English|speed
speeding (not comparable)
- Travelling very fast; moving at speed.
- Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists).
- We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.
- Under the influence of the drug speed; high on amphetamines.
- 2010, Patti Smith, Just Kids, Ecco 2010, p. 112:
- Bob Dylan composed “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on our floor, and a speeding Edie Sedgwick was said to have set her room on fire while gluing on her thick false eyelashes by candlelight.
- 2010, Patti Smith, Just Kids, Ecco 2010, p. 112:
speeding
- (countable) (Instance of) acceleration.
- 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North
- […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings.
- 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North
- (uncountable) Driving faster than the legal speed limit.
- He was fined $100 for speeding.
- French: excès de vitesse
- German: Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitung
- Italian: eccesso di velocità
- Portuguese: excesso de velocidade
- Russian: превыше́ние ско́рости
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