(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.
Strident
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
(2) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(3) We must also parallel our strident disapproval of misconduct with an objective exploration of the dynamics of both parties and the human commonality of sexual feelings.
(4) In private, the UK’s position has been less strident, according to Girling, and sources say that the UK supported some package objectives, despite reservations about their binding elements.
(5) In recent years O'Brien has been known for taking a more strident tone.
(6) Michael Meacher MP Labour, Oldham West and Royton • How dare Norman Warner and Jack O'Sullivan denigrate the NHS in such strident terms?
(7) George Osborne loosed his most strident rhetoric yet against environmental regulation in his autumn statement , slamming green policies as a "burden" and a "ridiculous cost" to British businesses, in a fillip to the right wing of his party.
(8) "The popular verdict clearly renders the bailout deal null," said the politician, whose stridently anti-austerity coalition of the radical left, known as Syriza, sprung the surprise of the weekend's poll, coming in second with 16.8% of the vote.
(9) Without such efforts, it appears that patient care quality will be the most likely aspect of health care to suffer in the future--a result against which all health care professionals should stridently guard.
(10) But its strident emotionalism and improv-style acting evidently hit the spot with a significant portion of the jury.
(11) The strident tone was illustrated by a startling public rebuff to Barack Obama.
(12) Following disturbing reports from human rights organisations such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, as well as the strident campaigning of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Fifa’s secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, promised to hold Qatar to account.
(13) "I seem to be perceived as aggressive and strident and I don't actually think I am strident and aggressive.
(14) McKinney had allowed himself to be photographed beside strident anti-abortion campaigners – and paid for it.
(15) I think a lot of people might think his work is stridently dissonant or painful on the ears.
(16) The concessions didn't go far enough to satisfy one of the most strident opponents, Open Book Alliance, a group that includes Google's rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.
(17) She is keen to use her tenure to promote the importance of GPs and offer ideas to help keep the NHS working well in difficult times, but in a less strident, more diplomatic, way than her predecessor.
(18) But Trump isn’t just pushing the field to talk about immigration in more strident terms.
(19) Malloch, a businessman who stridently supported Brexit ahead of the vote in June, is said to have been interviewed for the post by Trump.
(20) Leaders were more stridently at odds than ever before in the 30-month euro crisis.