adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a quick/rapid calculation
▪ He did a rapid calculation.
a rapid expansion
▪ During the 1990s, there was a rapid expansion in student numbers.
a rapid rate
▪ The plant’s ability to thrive in these conditions is partly due to its rapid rate of growth.
in quick/rapid/close succession (=quickly one after the other)
▪ He fired two shots in quick succession.
rapid spread
▪ the rapid spread of cholera in Latin America
rapid transit system
rapid transit
▪ rapid transit networks
rapid
▪ The investigation is making rapid progress.
rapid
▪ From the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s there was very rapid growth.
rapid (=happening quickly)
▪ Recently there has been a rapid increase in fish farming.
rapid (=fast)
▪ We noticed a rapid decline in his health.
rapid
▪ Symptoms may include the rapid onset of nausea and vomiting.
rapid
▪ The post-war years saw a rapid rise in prosperity.
rapid/fast
▪ Symptoms include a rapid pulse and dry skin.
rapid/fast
▪ The rapid pace of change creates uncertainty.
rapid/swift
▪ Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ It is often more energy-intensive with a more rapid deterioration than low-tech buildings!
▪ Their victory was even more rapid than that of the Arabs ten centuries later.
▪ Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.
▪ Budgets are lower, yet the production pace is more rapid.
▪ Industrialization in rural areas has increased, and has been more rapid than in metropolitan areas.
▪ As you get closer the beeping will get more rapid.
▪ In southern Britain, the process is more rapid.
▪ The crucial datum is this: the rate of gypsy-moth spread is now much more rapid than before.
most
▪ Change, in industry, commerce, and agriculture, was most evident and most rapid in the periphery.
▪ Quantitative assessments arc difficult to make, but the most rapid period of growth was probably from about I 580 to 1650.
▪ The regions with the most rapid growth rates were two of the more rural, East Anglia and the South West.
▪ By the beginning of 1947 the United States had almost completed tile most rapid demobilization in the history of the world.
▪ Bearpark expects the most rapid growth to come from services and systems integration, particularly in the open systems arena.
▪ But this same development model has recently produced the largest and most rapid reduction of poverty in history.
▪ Growth was most rapid in percentage terms around 1831 when it reached 1.55 percent per year and in absolute terms around 1870.
▪ Speech is the most rapid form of human communication - faster than both handwriting and the output from a trained typist.
so
▪ Not so rapid are the statistical analyses.
▪ In fact so rapid, I am astonished anyone should have noticed it.
▪ This contrasts with societies in which technological advance is so rapid that old people feel deskilled.
▪ When the grand collapse starts, it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it.
▪ The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard.
▪ So sad to see their decline - their so rapid decline - in other schools, elsewhere.
very
▪ The three sounds combine and blend, and the whole process is very rapid.
▪ Any abortive treatment must have a very rapid action because of the pain crescendo characteristic of these headaches.
▪ This allows for very rapid reproduction.
▪ And we are also experiencing mortality. in some areas very rapid mortality.
▪ They do not seem to have noticed that many predominantly market economies suffer from inflation, and often very rapid inflation.
▪ From the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's there was very rapid growth.
▪ Going farther back, into post-glacial times, we find evidence that erosion and deposition were sometimes very rapid indeed.
▪ This creates a thin surface layer with relatively low thermal heat capacity which allows very rapid summer heating even at subpolar latitudes.
■ NOUN
change
▪ Well, not too radical actually, since trades unionists are not noted for their enthusiasm for rapid change.
▪ Both the computer and financial services industries were undergoing rapid change.
▪ Computers for history teaching Computer technology is experiencing rapid change.
▪ They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
▪ In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand, soft shells would not have survived.
▪ Educators know that kindergarten is a stage of rapid change and development.
▪ Whatever the fortunes of the major political parties, it is likely that managers will be coping with rapid change.
▪ Technology is forcing rapid changes in the phone-book industry too.
decline
▪ This results, even in steady state, in a rapid decline in serum concentrations.
▪ Other factors besides family planning account for such rapid declines.
▪ That's quite a rapid decline.
▪ Then competition with Mission Valley shopping centers and suburban residential growth prompted a rapid decline.
▪ Her husband was told to expect that she would have a fairly rapid decline and would probably die within eighteen months.
▪ Through their research the class know that no railway will mean rapid decline.
▪ Then they began their mysterious and rapid decline.
deployment
▪ The army will expand from four to six the number of infantry battalions ready for rapid deployment.
development
▪ The other major trend that is taking place is the rapid development of colour publishing.
▪ The brothers moved quickly to grasp these rapid developments and establish their journalistic voice.
▪ Where fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals with high added value can be produced by biotechnology there will be rapid developments.
▪ The problem is not a function of demographics but of rapid development coupled with a lagging education system.
▪ But the issue was fascinating because of other things, heralding the rapid development of technology in the next century.
▪ In Phoenix the community development block grant was implemented within this context of rapid development.
▪ The eighteenth century was not an age of rapid development in military techniques.
▪ This is an area of rapid development with little or no environmental considerations.
expansion
▪ Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication.
▪ The rapid expansion of enrolments, teacher numbers and the volume of materials and support services meant that budgets grew very rapidly.
▪ Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation.
▪ Institutions took the hint, and began their current binge of rapid expansion.
▪ Its rapid expansion is causing severe strains on its current buildings on Corstorphine Hill.
▪ Since 1979, the rapid expansion of union education in Britain has gone into reverse.
▪ Heclo points to the rapid expansion of the number of groups and their representatives in Washington in the 1970s.
eye
▪ If rapid eye movements accompany dreaming, does it mean that our eyes are following the action of the dreams?
▪ The sleeper is awakened when rapid eye movements indicate that dreaming is taking place.
fire
▪ The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
growth
▪ Despite the rapid growth of recent years, poverty is proving stubbornly hard to eradicate.
▪ The recession, inflation, and high food costs caused rapid growth in the number of food co-ops.
▪ The inflation rate was fuelled by a relatively rapid growth rate which in 1989 reached 5.4 percent.
▪ Employment of local government inspectors is concentrated in cities and in suburban areas undergoing rapid growth.
▪ All sorts of companies seem to be capable of rapid growth.
▪ Unfortunately they are seldom present in small quantities for long, as they soon cover the bottom from their rapid growth.
▪ Bearpark expects the most rapid growth to come from services and systems integration, particularly in the open systems arena.
▪ It forces real interest rates into the stratosphere and makes rapid growth extremely difficult.
improvement
▪ With the exception of western humanitarian aid, none of their hopes of an rapid improvement in the economy was fulfilled.
▪ She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her.
▪ Its workforce needs rapid improvement to suit, its management levels and vision upgrading.
increase
▪ There was a rapid increase in the output of journals and books and in the range of and demand for newspapers.
▪ However, the rapid increase in the number of science policy-making organs does not necessarily imply efficiency.
▪ But by around 1020, the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity.
▪ The report also notes a rapid increase in the number of single-parent households.
▪ Younger age groups are experiencing a rapid increase in the proportion of minorities among their ranks.
▪ The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics.
▪ With the rapid increase in biotechnological research, stricter controls with powers of enforcement may well prove necessary in Britain.
movement
▪ He sat where medical students usually sat, hands clasped before him, watching the rapid movement of the green-robed figures below.
▪ It is only rapid movements up that become uncontrollable.
▪ For hard-liners, on both sides, the rapid movement toward a new world structure was alarming.
▪ Watching rapid movements can aggravate giddiness.
▪ The first rabbit stopped in a sunny patch and scratched his ear with rapid movements of his hind-leg.
pace
▪ Gripping the sides of the sidecar, he urged Yanto to increase the already rapid pace.
▪ C.-Only eight games into the season and the Raiders are on a rapid pace to being written off.
▪ The very rapid pace of change in the computer market does mean that second-hand computers can be excellent value.
population
▪ Reckless economic development and rapid population growth threaten the world's fragile environment.
▪ Life in Cairo often manages to work even under the oppressive condi-tions of poverty and rapid population growth.
▪ Where there is a high population density and a rapid population turnover, the church must achieve visibility.
▪ But with rapid population growth, all the negative effects of poverty and ill-conceived government policies are magnified.
▪ Countries with slower population growth saw their average percapita incomes grow 2.5 percent more than those with more rapid population growth.
▪ The effects of rapid population growth are everywhere.
▪ Congestion and land hunger were particularly acute in Lewis, because of the rapid population increase.
▪ Elsewhere, the effects of rapid population growth are far more severe.
progress
▪ Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.
▪ The doctors were surprised at his rapid progress.
▪ Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress.
▪ Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress, selling his 2 percent stake.
▪ But if rapid progress in combating poverty was possible in Britain over the past 100 years, then it is possible elsewhere.
▪ After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.
▪ Teachers using Fast Forward find the material is already under control and organized ideally to ensure rapid progress.
▪ Modern fax technology has made rapid progress.
rate
▪ Communication by electronic means is growing at a rapid rate throughout industry and government organisations.
▪ Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates?
▪ Shaw's brand Own label development continued at a rapid rate.
▪ Incidentally, it is a good idea to take photographs where possible as sites are still disappearing at a rapid rate.
▪ Hopefully increased competition will stimulate a more rapid rate of innovation.
▪ Sometimes in history there is a rapid rate of change.
▪ We may be undergoing a rapid rate of change in our knowledge base now, and that may be hard to assimilate.
▪ Given the School's rapid rate of growth, more part-time tutors are needed across the full range of management activities.
reaction
▪ The latest addition is International Blue Shield, aiming to provide rapid reaction teams when an unexpected threat emerges.
▪ Conditions like these would likely trigger a rapid reaction.
▪ The system efficiently delivered the rapid reaction force it was designed to produce.
▪ Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
▪ Developed countries speak of rapid reaction forces as the future of their military strategies.
response
▪ Get rapid responses to queries people raise in their staff meetings.
▪ That kind of rapid response will not be available on the space station, because the shuttle will be docked.
▪ This ideally matches the requirements of the servos and ensures a smooth and rapid response.
▪ D.. Augment rapid response capabilities for vaccine delivery and expand evaluation of vaccine efficacy and the cost effectiveness of vaccination programs.
▪ The gentle and yet rapid response that one achieves has to be experienced to be understood.
▪ Duty and intake systems to detect incipient problems early and to provide a rapid response. 3.
▪ Coun Hughes urged Mr Threlfall to consider a rapid response unit to deal with emergencies.
▪ This allows a rapid response to any divergences from expectations and for counter action to be agreed.
rise
▪ If there is surprise among outsiders at his rapid rise, within the bank it is seen as totally predictable.
▪ Not even cool weather can stop the rapid rise of red numbers, or so it seems.
▪ Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her.
▪ He had speculated, with good reason, on the rapid rise of the shares.
▪ The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time.
▪ Underscoring the rapid rise of the group, Internet stocks are not yet measured by the Dow Jones industry groups.
▪ This inpart reflects the recent very rapid rise in interest-bearing sterling deposits, due to high real interest rates.
spread
▪ The rapid spread of small arms and light weapons facilitate the recruitment of child soldiers.
▪ The result has been a rapid spread of unsightly buildings across the countryside.
▪ All three factors are thought to have played a part in the rapid spread of the disease.
succession
▪ That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession.
▪ There, during an eight-year period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, large trees began dying in rapid succession.
▪ Following him, there was a rapid succession of occupants.
▪ When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.
▪ Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession.
▪ I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.
▪ Female red-legged partridges and Temminck's stints produce two clutches in very rapid succession.
transit
▪ He was the chief architect in charge of the then-burgeoning rapid transit system - and it turns out he was also a painter.
▪ These findings are consistent with decreased transit in the proximal and rapid transit through the sigmoid colon in patients with active colitis.
▪ Historians have tended to overlook the possibilities of more rapid transit where the cargo concerned was profitable enough to merit it.
▪ At least 150 miles of new rapid transit and underground railways are envisaged in the next 20 to 30 years.
▪ Like some other rapid transit systems, this plan utilises only former and existing railway routes.
turnover
▪ Myddle parish saw nothing like the same rapid turnover of personnel.
▪ A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism.
▪ The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
▪ Those lymphocytes responsible for recall responses have a more rapid turnover, implying that long-lived memory is not maintained by long-lived T-lymphocytes.
▪ They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.
▪ In tne fast food business, every second counts and a rapid turnover of customers is essential to maximise profit margins.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a good/rapid/fast etc clip
▪ He was walking along at a good clip, his eyes idly panning the facades of the brownstone houses.
▪ Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Rapid learning: Learn to speak a new language in 12 weeks!
▪ a rapid increase in the population
▪ Adolescence is a period of great and rapid change.
▪ She made a rapid recovery after her operation.
▪ The college offers a rapid programme of training for librarians.
▪ Will cast a rapid glance at the clock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.
▪ But this same development model has recently produced the largest and most rapid reduction of poverty in history.
▪ For hard-liners, on both sides, the rapid movement toward a new world structure was alarming.
▪ Investments in public transport in these areas have concentrated on expensive high technology systems of rapid rail transit.
▪ That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession.
▪ The rapid force of airbag inflation saves adult lives.