单词 | fast-running |
释义 | > as lemmasfast-running (a) With reference to speed of movement, as in fast-falling, fast-running, fast-sailing, etc.See also fast-flowing adj. 1, fast-going adj. 1, fast-moving adj. 1. ΚΠ 1543 J. Hales tr. Plutarch Preceptes Preseruacion Healthe sig. f vii A dull or fast beating pulse. 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 56v His beard as whyte as mylke he bathes, with great fast falling teares. 1635 J. Vicars tr. R. Brathwait Last Trumpet vi. 94 What thinkst thou? say, Of that fast fleeting time, now, fled away? 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iv. 151 Fast-gath'ring tempests. 1788 Calcutta Chron. 31 Jan. To be sold..A remarkably fast-trotting Buggy-horse. 1800 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 200 A fast-sailing Polacca of about 70 Tons. 1867 H. James Tales (1973) I. 159 He went in..with a fast-beating heart. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 12/2 The river has been very thick and fast-running. 1960 New Scientist 28 July 286/2 The inside rim of a fast-revolving copper wheel. 2020 Border Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 27 Manners Honey held on to score by .3-lengths over the fast finishing Shy Girl. < as lemmas |
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