(n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
(n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
(n.) To go; to fare.
(n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
(n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
(n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
(n.) To be expedient.
(v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
(v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
(v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
(v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
(v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
(13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
(16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
(17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
(19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
(20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
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.