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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haste
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frantic pace/rush/haste etc
▪ There was a frantic rush to escape from the building.
indecent haste
▪ The funeral formalities were performed with almost indecent haste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Despite the lavish production, it shows all the signs of being assembled in great haste.
indecent
▪ No hurry: no indecent haste.
▪ The boundaries make sense, but there is an air of indecent haste about the timetables.
■ VERB
come
▪ But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
▪ What have we come for, in haste?
get
▪ Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
▪ In their haste the two friends got separated and Euryalus took the wrong path.
▪ Then she rushed back towards the stairs, almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor.
▪ In haste to get the mail.
▪ Mr Sampson - Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you.
make
▪ They are making no haste, and suffering no losses that matter.
▪ Then the three made all haste and boarded the ship and the crew pushed it off.
▪ We made haste inside, horse, carriage, and all.
▪ They did as he said, cutting the cables, making breathless haste, all as silently as possible.
▪ The connection with Fleming's Level should be made with all haste.
▪ When he saw Edwin Chase striding up towards them he made haste to make known one to the other.
▪ Roosevelt towards the end of his life seemed content to make haste slowly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
▪ Complex negotiations followed, in an atmosphere of haste, as Reagan would take office on January 20.
▪ Here haste not only wastes, it kills.
▪ I had to write in haste.
▪ More haste, less speed, Madam!
▪ She scaled its steep side in breathless haste.
▪ There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste.
▪ They were on the run, and in haste, or we should all be dead men.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haste

Haste \Haste\ (h[=a]st), n. [OE. hast; akin to D. haast, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries. hast, cf. OF. haste, F. h[^a]te (of German origin); all perh. fr. the root of E. hate in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See Hate.]

  1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

    The king's business required haste.
    --1 Sam. xxi. 8.

  2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

    I said in my haste, All men are liars.
    --Ps. cxvi. 11.

    To make haste, to hasten.

    Syn: Speed; quickness; nimbleness; swiftness; expedition; dispatch; hurry; precipitance; vehemence; precipitation.

    Usage: Haste, Hurry, Speed, Dispatch. Haste denotes quickness of action and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes a confusion and want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed denotes the actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude and rapidity with which things are done. A man may properly be in haste, but never in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.

Haste

Haste \Haste\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting.] [OE. hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw. hasta, OF. haster, F. h[^a]ter. See Haste, n.] To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]

I 'll haste the writer.
--Shak.

They were troubled and hasted away.
--Ps. xlviii. 5.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
haste

early 13c., from Old French haste "haste, urgency, hastiness" (12c., Modern French hâte), from Frankish *haifst "violence," from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (cognates: Gothic haifsts "strife," Old English hæste "violent, vehement, impetuous"). To make haste is recorded by 1530s.

haste

late 13c., from Old French haster (Modern French hâter), from haste (see haste). Now largely superseded by hasten (1560s).

Wiktionary
haste

n. 1 Speed; swiftness; dispatch. 2 (context obsolete English) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To urge onward; to hasten 2 (context intransitive English) To move with haste.

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WordNet
haste

  1. n. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste" [syn: hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation]

  2. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" [syn: hurry, rush, rushing]

  3. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door" [syn: hurry]

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Wikipedia
Haste

Haste may refer to:

  • Haste, Germany, a municipality in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony
  • USS Haste (PG-92), a Canadian corvette turned over to the United States Navy and manned by the Coast Guard
  • Carl Cohn Haste (1874–1939), a Danish pianist, organist and composer
  • Jeff Haste, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  • Shane Haste (born 1985), Australian professional wrestler
  • Haste (album), a 2012 album by Veryan Weston, Ingrid Laubrock and Hannah Marshall
  • Haste (band), a hardcore punk band from New Haven, CT
Haste (album)

Haste is the eponymous debut album by the free improvisation trio consisting of British pianist Veryan Weston, German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and British cellist Hannah Marshall. It was recorded live in 2011 during the XV Festival Internacional de Improvisacion Hurta Cordel in Barcelona and released on the British Emanem label.

Haste (band)

Haste is a hardcore punk band from New Haven, CT. The band formed in May 2015 and played their first show at a "Piano Burning" festival held annually in Middletown, CT on July 11, 2015. They have since played numerous shows around the Northeast Area just wrapping up a week of shows with D.R.I in June 2016. Their first album "Context", a 7" EP is a self-released limited run of 300 copies and is currently available along with a self-titled cassette released through Savage Era Records out of Philadelphia, PA

Haste (Osnabrück district)

Haste is a district in the north-east of Osnabrück, Germany. It is the fifth-largest district in the city on the River Hase, with a total land area of 788.8 hectares. Currently it has a population of about 6,600.

To the north-west it borders on the district of Pye, on Rulle to the north, Belm to the east, Dodesheide and Sonnenhügel to the south and on Hafen to the west. Two rivers run through this district – the Hase and the Nette.

Usage examples of "haste".

Clouds of war hung over Achar, and in times such as these, haste was called for.

Unfortunately, sleep had conquered her before your departure, and she only woke when the alarum struck, too late to detain you, for you had rushed with the haste of a man who is flying from some terrible danger.

However, we left the Amalgamated base in some haste and the matter was not resolved.

Already the wounds were repairing themselves, but the arquebusiers were reloading with panicked haste, not daring to go near the dying creature.

He shoved his load of slates into the hands of the stupefied slave who followed him and, in atypical haste, threaded a path through a room suddenly filled with armed men.

The sound of a horseman riding in haste to the gate of the Bailliage echoed through the hall.

Wenkoseemansa split the water in his haste to report that half the pack had encircled another baleen and urged it to the surface.

There to see, that now we have nothing to look for but, far otherwise, that we must put aside all else and rest in This alone, This become, This alone, all the earthly environment done away, in haste to be free, impatient of any bond holding us to the baser, so that with our being entire we may cling about This, no part in us remaining but through it we have touch with God.

In his haste to return to the Erzterprtse, a frantic Commander ha Bem had taken the last one by himself.

Therefore most aernestly I do beseek your Magestie and your nowble Lorde that was my Frend before that by my venemous tresun I loste both you and him and alle, take order for your proper saffetie, and the thinge requyers Haste of your Magestes.

It extended upward with astonishing haste, bifurcating and flexing like a groping fist.

On the Tuesday morning I was duly informed that breakfast was ready, but as I did not answer the summons quickly enough the servant came up again, and told me that my wife requested me to make haste.

I dressed myself in haste, and left the town by the first road that came in my way, and I walked fast for two hours with the intention of tiring myself, and of thus readjusting the balance between mind and body.

I made haste to lengthen the distance between me and the place where I had found the kindliest hospitality, the utmost politeness, the most tender care, and best of all, new health and strength, and as I walked I could not help feeling terrified at the danger I had been in.

These people also he deemed well before the world, for they were well clad and buxom, and made no great haste as they went, but looked about them as though they deemed the world worth looking at, and as if they had no fear either of a blow or a hard word for loitering.