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What (who) is speed - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
SPEED; Speed (movie); The Speed; Speed (group); Speed (song); Speed (film); Speed (band); Speed (music group)
speed
MAGNITUDE OF VELOCITY OF MOTION
Speeds; Average speed; Swiftness; Instantaneous speed; Promptness; Promptitude; Hastiness; Land speed; Land Speed; Speedfulness; Tangential velocity; Constant Speed; Rate of speed; Tangential speed; Speeed; Slow speed
(speeds, speeding, sped, speeded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: The form of the past tense and past participle is 'sped' in meaning 5 but 'speeded' for the phrasal verb.
1.
The speed of something is the rate at which it moves or travels.
He drove off at high speed...
With this type of camera, the shutter speed is fixed...
An electrical pulse in a wire travels close to the speed of light...
Wind speeds reached force five.
N-VAR: with supp
2.
The speed of something is the rate at which it happens or is done.
In the late 1850s the speed of technological change quickened...
Each learner can proceed at his own speed.
= pace
N-COUNT: with supp
3.
Speed is very fast movement or travel.
Speed is the essential ingredient of all athletics...
He put on a burst of speed...
The car is quite noisy at speed.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
Speed is a very fast rate at which something happens or is done.
I was amazed at his speed of working.
...the sheer speed of the unification process.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n/-ing
5.
If you speed somewhere, you move or travel there quickly, usually in a vehicle.
Trains will speed through the Channel Tunnel at 186mph...
The engine noise rises only slightly as I speed along.
= race
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
6.
Someone who is speeding is driving a vehicle faster than the legal speed limit.
This man was not qualified to drive and was speeding.
VERB: usu cont, V
• speeding
He was fined for speeding last year.
N-UNCOUNT
7.
Speed is an illegal drug such as amphetamine which some people take to increase their energy and excitement. (INFORMAL)
N-UNCOUNT
8.
see also -speed
9.
10.
If you are up to speed, you have all the most recent information that you need about something.
A day has been set aside to bring all councillors up to speed on the proposal...
Those in charge deluded themselves they were up to speed.
PHRASE: oft PHR on n
Speed
MAGNITUDE OF VELOCITY OF MOTION
Speeds; Average speed; Swiftness; Instantaneous speed; Promptness; Promptitude; Hastiness; Land speed; Land Speed; Speedfulness; Tangential velocity; Constant Speed; Rate of speed; Tangential speed; Speeed; Slow speed
·noun To be expedient.
II. Speed ·noun To make haste; to move with celerity.
III. Speed ·noun Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
V. Speed ·noun One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
VI. Speed ·vt To hasten to a conclusion; to Expedite.
VII. Speed ·noun To fare well; to have success; to Prosper.
VIII. Speed ·vt To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to Favor.
IX. Speed ·noun To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to Fare.
X. Speed ·vt To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
XII. Speed ·noun The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
XIII. Speed ·vt To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to Hurry.
speed
MAGNITUDE OF VELOCITY OF MOTION
Speeds; Average speed; Swiftness; Instantaneous speed; Promptness; Promptitude; Hastiness; Land speed; Land Speed; Speedfulness; Tangential velocity; Constant Speed; Rate of speed; Tangential speed; Speeed; Slow speed
n.
swiftness, velocity
1) to build up, pick up; maintain speed
2) to reach a speed (to reach cruising speed; to reach a speed of one hundred miles an hour)
3) breakneck, breathtaking, high, lightning; cruising; deliberate, full, top; low; moderate; steady; supersonic speed
4) a burst of speed
5) at a certain speed (at top speed)
6) (misc.) full speed ahead!
amphetamine
(slang)
7) to shoot; snort speed
Wikipedia
Speed (disambiguation)
Speed is the rate of motion, change, or activity.
Speed may also refer to:
Examples of use of speed
1. Not just outright speed but speed under inappropriate circumstances.
2. The Mach number is the ratio of an aircraft‘s speed to the speed of sound.
3. If motorists felt that speed limits were appropriate, they might resent speed cameras less.
4. People don‘t speed cos they saw it on top gear they speed because they are idiots if you cancel top gear ppl will still speed!
5. But the guidance adds: "Speed limits are, however, only one element of speed management.