Crossword clues for fastest
fastest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fast \Fast\, a. [Compar. Faster; superl. Fastest.] [OE., firm, strong, not loose, AS. f[ae]st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf. Fast, adv., Fast, v., Avast.]
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Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
There is an order that keeps things fast.
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Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
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Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]
Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.
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Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
All this while in a most fast sleep.
--Shak. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
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In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another. ``Play fast and loose with faith.''
--Shak.Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.
Wiktionary
WordNet
adv. most quickly [syn: quickest]
Wikipedia
Fastest is a model-based testing tool that works with specifications written in the Z notation. The tool implements the Test Template Framework (TTF) proposed by Phil Stocks and David Carrington in . It is freely available online.
Fastest is a documentary film about the Grand Prix motorcycle racing, MotoGP. Filmed between 2010 and 2011 by director Mark Neale, it is narrated by Ewan McGregor and produced by Neale and award-winning producer Paul Taublieb, from Media X International, Inc.. Fastest was preceded by The Doctor, The Tornado and The Kentucky Kid and will be succeeded by Charge, currently awaiting release.
Usage examples of "fastest".
He gave Jessl some instructions about putting their fastest Star-class ship in readiness for a long trip.
He could hear the Hrruban boy yards behind them grunting with frustration as he drove his short legs to their fastest pace.
On reflection, perhaps she shouldn't have accented ‘They travel fastest who travel alone’ quite so heavily, not when meeting the only member of her family she'd seen since Myriad.
She gave herself as thorough a scrub as she could with one hand - and no soap - in probably the fastest bath she'd ever taken.
Fortunately it could pass the tedium of the voyage in a suspended state, but that amenity required some alterations to the newest and fastest Catteni warship.
The warship, the AAI, plus its sister ship which had just passed its test flights and been commissioned, were supplied and crewed for the fastest possible return to the system in question.
The stairs were also utilized to see who could get to the top and back fastest - preferably without breaking a leg.
Somewhere, too close to his need, was that vision of dragonriders in an inner room, waiting, with an excitement that matched his own, waiting until the green dragon had been captured by the fastest, the strongest or the smartest of her pursuers.
Master Idarolan, as irate as everyone else, sent messages to all harbormasters, consulted at great length with his most trusted captains, and dispatched his fastest courier ship to Monaco Bay.
Master Idarolan had dispatched his fastest ship and came a-dragonback to captain it himself.
In the wash-up, Cathy ran the 13th fastest time, yet missed the 16-strong semi-finals field.
But he had taken the possibility that he might have to do this into consideration and had walked the meadow over and over, mentally tracing the route he would take, estimating his fastest safe speed, noting all the rocks and ruts in his path.
The politically savvy all knew that the fastest way to promotion in the Air Force was as an aviator, and fighter wings, with their inherent glamour, had always been the most visible.
It was the fastest way, but not the easiest, because she had no way of breaking her fall on the other side.
She simply wanted to get away from him, and the fastest way to do that was to give in and get it over with.