fast: meaning and definitions
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Acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly; swift.
Accomplished in relatively little time: a fast visit.
Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously: made a fast buck scalping tickets.
Quick to understand or learn; mentally agile: a class for the faster students.
Indicating a time somewhat ahead of the actual time: The clock is fast.
Allowing rapid movement or action: a fast running track.
Designed for or compatible with a short exposure time: fast film.
Disposed to dissipation; wild: ran with a fast crowd.
Flouting conventional moral standards; sexually promiscuous.
Resistant, as to destruction or fading: fast colors.
Firmly fixed or fastened: a fast grip.
Fixed firmly in place; secure: shutters that are fast against the rain.
Firm in loyalty: fast friends.
Lasting; permanent: fast rules and regulations.
Deep; sound: in a fast sleep.
In a secure manner; tightly: hold fast.
To a sound degree; deeply: fast asleep.
In a rapid manner; quickly.
In quick succession: New ideas followed fast.
Ahead of the correct or expected time: a watch that runs fast.
In a dissipated, immoderate way: living fast.
To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.
The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.