(v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
(v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
(v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
(v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
(v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
(v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
(v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
(v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
(v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
(v.) Tenacious; retentive.
(v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
(v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
(v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
(a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
(a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
(n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
(n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(8) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
(9) Glucose metabolic rates during control and reperfusion were unchanged for hearts from fasted rats, but decreased for hearts from fed rats during reperfusion.
(10) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(11) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(12) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.
(13) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(14) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(15) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(16) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(17) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(18) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(19) Plasma and red cell sorbitol concentrations, fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb) were evaluated in 30 diabetic patients and 42 normal subjects.
(20) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.
Speedy
Definition:
(superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both situations, speedy intervention is essential to prevent irreversible damage.
(2) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(3) These patients require speedy diagnosis before total paralysis is established.
(4) Speedy processing and prompt telephone calls afforded opportunities to replace these with better specimens, but only 29% of rejected specimens were resubmitted.
(5) Equally, you can still get a perfectly posh bag for around £600 – Louis Vuitton’s Speedy bags, for a start, are still well under a grand.
(6) Arsenal are clinging to the hope that, like Olivier Giroud, who returned as a goal-scoring substitute in the 2-1 loss to United weeks ahead of schedule after fracturing his tibia in late August, Wilshere could yet surprise people and make a speedy recovery.
(7) A wire with a precisely engineered thread and threaded nylon nut are described as an accurate, speedy and simple alternative to the arch bars and wires method of immobilizing the jaw while greatly reducing the chances of trauma to the surgeon.
(8) The dissection is simple, speedy and straight foreward.
(9) "Our thoughts are with Aaron at this time and everyone at the club wishes him all the best in making as speedy a return to action as possible."
(10) On-site use of the microcomputer contributed to increased monitoring efficiency and trialist motivation, resulting in rapid recruitment of patients, collection of high quality data and speedy analysis at the end of the study.
(11) A British exit from the EU will lead straight into a model like Norway, as Britain seems still to want speedy access to the 500–plus million EU consumer market.
(12) I wish you a speedy recovery my friend.” Peter Lovenkrands (@lovenkrands11) Can't believe the news about my good friend @elgalgojonas testicle cancer😔 i wish you a speedy recovery my Friend🙏👊😘 #SpiderMan #Nufc September 16, 2014 The former Newcastle goalkeeper Steve Harper added: “Buena suerte a mi amigo Jonas with his battle with testicular cancer.
(13) The result – and Mitchell’s speedy response – brings to an end a two-year campaign to clear his name which was launched when friends invoked the memory of Margaret Thatcher to persuade him to come out fighting after he lost his job as chief whip.
(14) The government, however, pushed that aside and said it would enact the changes itself in the "wash-up" process in the House of Commons in order to ensure that the bill continued its speedy passage through parliament.
(15) While the defender has had a dismaying run of layoffs over the past three seasons there is optimism at the club that Kompany can make a speedy recovery as the current problem is not a recurrence of any previous one.
(16) Hundreds more, including Morsi, have been sentenced to death after speedy trials, which the UN denounced as “unprecedented in recent history”.
(17) To appreciate what is at stake we have to track back to amendments to the NSW Evidence Act in 1995, following the collapse of the cases against Jay Thomas Hart on charges of murdering Clinton Speedy-Dutroux and Evelyn Greenup.
(18) I am sending condolences to the families of those murdered and wishes of a speedy recovery to the wounded,” the Israeli leader said.
(19) Following embolization, the patient made a speedy recovery from the sepsis and no recurrent bleeding was noted.
(20) You panic but it's no good "getting on the bell" – unless you're dying – and, even then, don't hope for a speedy response.