Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense fast forwards, present participle fast forwarding, past tense, past participle fast forwarded
1. verb
When you fast forward the tape in a video or tape recorder or when you fast forward, you make the tape go forwards. Compare rewind.
Just fast forward the video. [VERB noun]
He fast-forwarded the recording past the explosion. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
The urge to fast-forward is almost irresistible. [VERB]
[Also V prep/adv]
2. uncountable noun [oft onNOUN]
If you put a video or cassette tape onfast forward, you make the tape go forwards. Compare rewind.
Before recording onto a new tape, wind it on fast forward, then rewind.
I really tried with this film, but kept pushing the fast-forward button–I found itunwatchable.
fast-forward in British English
noun
1. (sometimes not hyphenated)
the control on a tape deck or video recorder used to wind the tape or video forward at speed
2. informal
a state of urgency or rapid progress
my mind went into fast forward
verb
3. (transitive)
to wind (a video or tape) forward using the fast-forward control
4.
to deal with speedily
fast-forward the trials of the new drug
5. (intransitive)
to move forward through a tape or video using the fast-forward control
6. (usually foll by to)
to direct one's attention towards a particular time or event, ignoring intervening material
fast-forward to the following year
Word origin
C20: from the fast-forward wind control in a tape deck
fast forward in British English
(fɑːst ˈfɔːwəd)
noun
1.
the control on a tape deck or video recorder used to wind the tape or video forwardat speed
Before recording onto a new tape, wind it on fast forward, then rewind.
2. informal
a state of urgency or rapid progress
My mind went into fast forward.
fast forward in American English
1.
the setting on an electronic playback device, as a VCR, allowing the user to skip portions and advance at an accelerated speed to a later section of a disc, tape, etc.
2.
the act or condition of speeding up and advancing
fast-forward in American English
(ˈfæstˈfɔrwərd)
verb intransitive, verb transitive
1.
to advance to a later time at an accelerated speed
noun
2.
fast forward
Examples of 'fast-forward' in a sentence
fast-forward
Well...'I smiled, and let my own gaze drift while my mind went into fast forward.
Pritchard, John NIGHT SISTERS
I fingered the ` fast forward ' button, wanting to zip myself through this patch of time, get out the other side of the nastiness.
Robert Wilson A DARKENING STAIN (2002)
I wished we could run across, run to their apartment, run to Jesse, get all the information in two seconds - everything fast forward.
Carroll, Jonathan FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS (1994)
My brain went through a fast-forward of Kodak moments where I was conspicuously absent.
Pearl Cleage WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY (2003)