(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.
Sprint
Definition:
(v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
(n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) A timed sprint to exhaustion was performed after 45 min of exercise at 70% of VO2max, and a Wingate anaerobic test was used to measure total work and peak power.
(3) Nine well-trained subjects performed 15-, 30- and 45-s bouts of sprint exercise using a cycle ergometer.
(4) A major criticism of present models of the energetics and mechanics of sprint running concerns the application of estimates of parameters which seem to be adapted from measurements of running during actual competitions.
(5) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
(6) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(7) During 1981 to 1983, a secondary prevention study with nifedipine (SPRINT) was conducted in Israel among 2,276 survivors of acute myocardial infarction.
(8) These data suggest that intensive swimming training may prevent or delay the decline with age in the physiological factors affecting blood lactate values following a maximal sprint swim.
(9) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
(10) Twice he sprinted off his line to deny a pair of Ballon d’Or winners, Roberto Baggio and George Weah .
(11) It was suggested that PRA increases are needed for increasing muscle stiffness to resist great impact forces at the beginning of contact during sprint running.
(12) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
(13) Nations were allowed to sprint ahead of the pack on their own.
(14) We have performed initial clinical studies using the high resolution single photon ring tomograph (SPRINT) and Tc-99m HMPAO.
(15) The effect of heat acclimatization on aerobic exercise tolerance in the heat and on subsequent sprint exercise performance was investigated.
(16) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
(17) In Beijing I was very tired because I won the 200m final after six races and I was not experienced in sprinting.
(18) "Well, the competitive juices might just kick in as we sprinted for the line."
(19) As Wales laboured anxiously, white-shirted Russians were sprinting through from midfield to support Dmitry Bulykin.
(20) After 8 wk of training, small but significant decreases in lactate dehydrogenase activity (15%) were found in the soleus and white vastus lateralis muscles of the sprint animals.