(n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
(n.) The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
(n.) To hasten; to hurry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(2) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
(3) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(4) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(5) This was indicated in the present studies by a close correspondence of observed serum [Ca(++)] values with those predicted by the McLean-Hastings nomogram.
(6) This time, despite his wish to strike deals with similar haste, it has been more difficult, with only Asmir Begovic and Radamel Falcao arriving before the opening game.
(7) It is believed the tablet was secretly moved to London after its unveiling in a Hastings car park, but no one has spotted it since.
(8) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
(9) Under its founding president, Hastings Banda, Malawi became conservative internally with controversial diplomatic links – a police state under which civil liberties were heavily curtailed.
(10) Other factors frequently associated with incidents were inadequate communication among personnel, haste or lack of precaution, and distraction.
(11) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
(12) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(13) The peer said he was surprised that shareholders in Hastings and Worldpay had not raised the women issue as one of major concern.
(14) Along the coast, Hastings will be attempting to break the record it set last year for the world's largest gathering of pirates ( hastingspirateday.org.uk , 21 July.
(15) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(16) oxygen pressure in Hastings medium with glucose was localized in the cells of the periphery of the slice.
(17) Netflix has been forced to twice raise the amount it charges its 23 million subscribers to watch films, as chief executive Reed Hastings has made clear his determination to bolster the firm's library of content.
(18) No Southeastern trains will run into London Bridge or Charing Cross from December 24 to 28, apart from the Hastings service which will be diverted to London Bridge.
(19) Some of the 60 local authorities that are fast- tracking the government mortgage rescue scheme: South west: Salisbury, Plymouth, Weymouth South east and London: Tunbridge Wells, Slough, Hastings, Lewisham...#65279;, Westminster East: Basildon, Norfolk Midlands: Northampton, Leicester, Solihull, Warwick, Worcester North west and north east Wirral, Blackpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, Darlington, Middlesbrough Yorkshire and Humber Doncaster, Scarborough, Wakefield • This article was amended on Sunday 21 December 2008.
(20) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
Rapidity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(3) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(4) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(5) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
(6) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(7) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(8) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(9) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(10) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(11) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(12) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(13) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(14) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(15) This is rapidly followed by a gamut of changes leading to demyelination.
(16) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(17) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(18) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(19) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(20) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.