speed
move hurridly
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,660 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,964 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- move hurridly also: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, race, pelt along He rushed down the hall to receive his guestsThe cars raced down the street
- move faster also: accelerate, speed up, quicken The car accelerated
- move very fast also: travel rapidly, hurry, zip The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
- travel at an excessive or illegal velocity I got a ticket for speeding
- cause to move faster also: accelerate, speed up He accelerated the car
noun
- distance travelled per unit time also: velocity
- a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens also: swiftness, fastness the project advanced with gratifying speed
- changing location rapidly also: speeding, hurrying
speed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Then his speed slackened, he glanced behind.
The Eternal Maiden · T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré · Chapter 1
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And full of fury on their master feed, To hasten on my hapless death with speed.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Love works at the centre, Heart-heaving alway; Forth speed the strong pulses To the borders of day.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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Still, we shall never push her to a dangerous speed, and we shall rigidly prohibit racing with other comets.
Sketches New and Old, Part 7. · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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When Lagree became aware of her prisoner’s flight she was furious, and set off at full speed in pursuit.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1