Crossword clues for rapidly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rapidly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
breathe fast/rapidly (=breathe quickly because of illness, fear etc)
▪ He closed his eyes, breathing fast under the fever.
expanded rapidly
▪ Sydney’s population expanded rapidly in the 1960s.
grow rapidly/slowly/steadily
▪ The economy has grown steadily.
quickly/rapidly gain sth
▪ Adam quickly gained the respect of the soldiers under his command.
rapidly expanding
▪ the rapidly expanding field of information technology
rapidly (=very quickly)
▪ Since then, elephant numbers have been decreasing rapidly.
rapidly/quickly
▪ The market for phones is changing rapidly.
rapidly/quickly/fast
▪ House prices rose rapidly last year.
spread rapidly/quickly
▪ The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the houses.
went downhill...rapidly
▪ Grandma fell and broke her leg, and she went downhill quite rapidly after that.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
changing
▪ Living in modernity facilitates this belief because we live in a world of rapidly changing fashions and technologies.
▪ Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
▪ Most sectors face aggressive competition, rapidly changing customer needs and fashions, and further technical change.
▪ We know that the stability signified by unchanging buildings is psychologically valuable, particularly in a violent and rapidly changing world.
▪ Improved communication about children and the problems which they faced outside school was not simply a consequence of a rapidly changing society.
▪ Taxation is a complex and rapidly changing subject.
▪ This rapidly changing eighteenth-century upper class reaped the rewards of the political settlement hard-won in 1688 after civil war and the interregnum.
▪ It can also help you keep up with the rapidly changing world of work.
developing
▪ This makes the sperm, like all rapidly developing cells, especially vulnerable to damage from chemicals or radiation.
▪ It will be appreciated that this rapidly developing field of expertise contains extensive new jargon.
▪ Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire.
▪ Bioremediation is a promising and rapidly developing treatment technology with a bright future.
▪ This is a rapidly developing field which poses great challenges for both experimentalists and theoreticians.
▪ In advertising, you are part of the most rapidly developing new industry in the world, namely communications and information technology.
expanding
▪ Iron founding soon became their main interest, with the railway boom at first providing a rapidly expanding market.
▪ Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities.
▪ However, for the twelfth century we are much better informed about the rapidly expanding wine trade.
▪ The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service.
▪ He was elected a director of the rapidly expanding Company in 1767, and was appointed deputy chairman the following year.
▪ The leisure industry, however, is one of the world's largest and most rapidly expanding businesses.
▪ A particular coup for the firm was the contract to supply the rapidly expanding Marks and Spencer chain.
▪ Both are putting forward major expansion proposals designed to cater for the NorthWest's rapidly expanding demand for air travel.
growing
▪ Camra is rapidly growing in size too.
▪ They were a little reluctant to do this, but knew that it would provide an essential rapidly growing windbreak.
▪ But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much.
▪ Central laser printing is used on a rapidly growing scale.
▪ Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem.
▪ Management buyouts are a new and rapidly growing means of company takeover and new firm formation.
▪ These people work mainly in the new, rapidly growing, employment sectors such as personal services, advertising and the media.
▪ There is a rapidly growing number in Britain who regard dolphins in captivity as similar to humans in slavery.
rising
▪ We now need to consider the effect of rapidly rising property prices on individual behaviour.
▪ I gingerly fingered the rapidly rising egg ... no blood ... it almost seemed worth it.
▪ There was, in the mid century, a gap between rising wages and even more rapidly rising prices that favoured investment.
▪ A falling savings ratio and rapidly rising consumer expenditure were certainly significant features of the second half of the 1980s.
▪ The reputation of Champagne was growing fast, as can be assessed from the record of rapidly rising prices.
▪ This was a period when coal consumption, and hence the number of miners employed, was rapidly rising.
▪ Lloyd George's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices.
■ VERB
approach
▪ The rear of a truck was approaching rapidly.
▪ The mind no longer needs to invent its reality-the reality is in its face, rapidly approaching dead-on.
▪ Pike Tackle With Autumn and Winter rapidly approaching, anglers will soon he turning to pike.
▪ The time is rapidly approaching when somebody has to do a spacewalk around this station.
▪ Cranston's hand went towards his dagger and Athelstan rapidly approached the door.
▪ It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne; night was approaching rapidly.
become
▪ In the mean time laparoscopic cholecystectomy has rapidly become a popular method.
▪ If the control key is left attached to the adjustment spindle it rapidly becomes too hot for comfortable handling.
▪ Once the end point was reached, the lake is likely to rapidly become acidic.
▪ Public affairs is rapidly becoming a speciality in Britain.
▪ Herrera, rapidly becoming worse, was unable to leave the city.
▪ It is the characteristic of social services that they become rapidly and strongly institutionalised.
▪ Biotechnology is rapidly becoming one of the world's great industries.
change
▪ In the rurban fringe the use of the land has been changing rapidly.
▪ Now the rapidly changing workplace meant men had to retool routinely too.
▪ On the other hand, things can change rapidly there.
▪ Her body is changing rapidly in ways that are initially uncomfortable.
▪ Tennis was changing rapidly, not least in the technology of its implements and the surfaces of its playing area.
▪ They are rapidly changing their minds as they discover the obvious: Running multiple networks is expensive.
▪ Once again where the patients' conditions are changing rapidly, in general, more time will be required.
▪ Western economic and social determinants were changing rapidly.
decline
▪ The schools building programme ceased in 1985, and at that time too teachers' real salaries began to decline rapidly.
▪ His health declined rapidly after treatment last summer.
▪ In the absence of soil conservation, the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly.
▪ Public concern over the popular cetacean has mounted as numbers have rapidly declined.
▪ Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened.
▪ The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
▪ Both food and fur animals declined rapidly.
deteriorate
▪ In the early nineteenth century the quality of working-class houses, as structures, deteriorated rapidly.
▪ Whipped butter is expensive and deteriorates rapidly.
▪ Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down.
▪ Credit quality has deteriorated rapidly in recent months, both for marketable debt and for bank loans.
▪ Without it the retinas of their eyes would rapidly deteriorate.
▪ Of the scandalous way in which the railway hotels were sold off and nine-tenths have deteriorated rapidly since.
▪ This provision is inserted in the Policy because these items are moving parts which deteriorate rapidly with use.
▪ Excision biopsy was carried out and before the result was available the patient deteriorated rapidly and died.
develop
▪ Fine roots develop from the nodes and the plant develops rapidly and outgrows the tank.
▪ Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics.
▪ However, the market is developing rapidly externally.
▪ Meanwhile, the sheep industry had developed rapidly, and these smaller animals were promptly set upon by both wolves and coyotes.
▪ Grangemouth was also developing rapidly although it was the early part of the present century before substantial tonnages were handled.
▪ The unions developed rapidly during this decade.
▪ Propagation is by cuttings, which root and develop rapidly.
▪ Sir Hugh said loyalists were rapidly developing their bomb-making skills.
disappear
▪ Marian leaned over the parapet; the rain, which still streamed down, was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear.
▪ Mowry is rapidly disappearing into the hillsides.
▪ Many conflicts in meetings disappear rapidly once you get down to detail and factual cases.
▪ He did a remarkably accurate imitation of the soft, low drag of a rapidly disappearing device.
expand
▪ The size and the number of actuarial firms is expanding rapidly in response to the demand for their services.
▪ Since the I950s, world trade has expanded rapidly, driving incomes higher along the way.
▪ The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly.
▪ Not only is production expanding rapidly as foreign mining outfits plunge in, world coal prices have been rising.
▪ Although joint venture programmes have expanded rapidly in recent years, care has been taken to contain the growth of core staff.
▪ She added to his rapidly expanding jewelry collection.
▪ The rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology would facilitate the process.
▪ From Melbourne to Seoul, intraregional trade and investments were rapidly expanding.
fall
▪ Darkness was falling rapidly as Campeanu eased his way past the narrow gap.
▪ It began to breathe, its little chest rising and falling rapidly.
▪ Now they are falling rapidly to earth, but with some way to go.
▪ The average length of service of my colleagues in London fell rapidly from six years to less than two years.
▪ The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918.
▪ Union membership fell rapidly to around half of the immediate postwar level.
▪ The unlikelihood of base level having fallen rapidly between terraces and remaining absolutely constant while terraces were being cut.
▪ Why not join them the next time your barometer begins to fall rapidly?
follow
▪ It was not long before the first passenger was sick, followed rapidly by another then another.
▪ Municipalities and government agencies are rapidly following suit.
▪ The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
▪ The opening of new houses followed rapidly.
grow
▪ Sprint, an early entrant into the commercial Internet, has a rapidly growing Internet services business.
▪ Air travel was growing rapidly, while the role of mass transit on the ground was shrinking almost everywhere.
▪ The fry grew rapidly on a diet of brine shrimp and Liquifry.
▪ That rapidly growing part of their business now accounts for about 25 percent of overall sales.
▪ It represents, according to my knowledge, the most up-to-date and comprehensive book in this rapidly growing subject area.
▪ Co. has grown rapidly since its early years as a discount brokerage house.
improve
▪ The patient improved rapidly and had no complaints one year after this procedure.
▪ The 1994 PontetCanet might be the best ever for this rapidly improving estate.
▪ Inflation was brought down to below 5 percent, the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly.
▪ From the eleventh century onwards, and as long as economic growth continued, the lot of the peasants rapidly improved.
▪ Competition would be the same and vehicle security would rapidly improve.
▪ Medical services, skills and drugs improved rapidly, particularly due to vaccination.
▪ With speculation growing that Laughton will be sacked unless results improve rapidly, Leeds began badly.
increase
▪ In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities.
▪ Return on sales is currently just below the industry average of 3. 5 percent, and shows a rapidly increasing trend.
▪ The number of financial products available over the internet-where physical geography is mostly irrelevant-is increasing rapidly.
▪ Population had increased rapidly, and millions had moved to the cities.
▪ After work, at the pub, verbal interactions may increase rapidly.
▪ It is well known in kinetic theory that reaction rates Increase rapidly with increases in temperature.
▪ Trade between the two nations increased rapidly.
move
▪ Turbulence produced by rapidly moving columns of air also generates low-frequency sounds.
▪ Even concentrating on the rapidly moving pictures milked most of my energy.
▪ There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.
▪ Our recently announced plans to significantly expand our hosting infrastructure are moving rapidly.
▪ About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
▪ When the pictures are put together and moved rapidly, the character appears to be moving.
▪ Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly, but they have done it in a different way.
▪ Some welfare recipients -- Those with job skills could move rapidly into training, child care and job programs.
rise
▪ In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.
▪ On their return, both rapidly rose to positions of decisive importance in Church and State.
▪ Relative poverty, more markedly than absolute poverty, clearly rose rapidly throughout the 1970s.
▪ All were great successes and his popularity as a writer rose rapidly.
▪ Labour markets became very tight and money wages rose rapidly.
▪ Divorce rates are also rising rapidly in many other parts of the world.
▪ But the populations of poorer countries will continue to rise rapidly.
▪ They met originally at a company orientation program, and subsequently the latter executive rose rapidly in the company.
spread
▪ The epidemic is dynamic, unstable and continuing to spread rapidly.
▪ The new system has usurped almost all health care in California and is rapidly spreading nationwide.
▪ The initial story that the school forced its pupils to assemble firecrackers spread rapidly.
▪ Once the researchers returned to shore, news of their findings spread rapidly through the scientific community.
▪ The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.
▪ This distorted form of Buddhism spread rapidly thanks to a vast network of male and female monastic communities.
▪ But out of sight the roots from which they grow are spreading rapidly.
▪ Such belief will spread rapidly throughout human populations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the Gulf War he was promoted rapidly and began to mix more in political circles.
▪ But in rapidly heating or cooling markets, new-home prices can signal a change in overall price trends.
▪ Copper vessels and brass fittings are rapidly attacked under these conditions.
▪ Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly.
▪ However, the market is developing rapidly externally.
▪ Labour markets became very tight and money wages rose rapidly.
▪ Other primates laugh by panting rapidly.
▪ Rose recovered rapidly and was soon able to go outside again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rapidly
Rapidly \Rap"id*ly\ (r[a^]p"[i^]d*l[y^]), adv. In a rapid manner.
Wiktionary
rapidly
adv. With speed; in a rapid manner.
WordNet
Usage examples of "rapidly".
Mersenne had immediately gone to general quarters and orderedIllustrious to accelerate as rapidly as possible away from the other ships.
At the edge of the field of vision, the Doppler telemeter and accelerometer spat out their little red numbers so rapidly that it was difficult to read the indicated speed.
At least under stress the cholesterol content of the adrenal cortex falls, signifying that corticoids are being manufactured rapidly to meet the situation.
CaWogs The nature of catalog advertising is changing rapidly due to technology.
But the balloon continued rapidly on its downward course, and, answering the barks with consoling words, the aeronaut hurried to the earth.
The man aims for that rapidly vanishing afterglow, alone on a darkly painted sea, a single, tiny figure chasing a sun that has already deserted him.
As the weeks passed, Alec realized that aside from certain rapidly diminishing ethical qualms, he had never been happier.
His amanuensis found it impossible to keep up with him, and therefore profited by a hint from one of us, and instead of writing, merely moved his pen rapidly over the paper, scrawling all sorts of ragged lines and figures to resemble writing!
Because they evolved rapidly, had worldwide distribution by virtue of their open-water habitats, and species are readily distinguished, ammonoids are index fossils for the Jurassic.
As he sate thus, with his dark eye turned towards the scowling and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly up to him, and stopping, as if to let his horse breathe for an instant, made a sort of obeisance to the anchoret, with an air betwixt effrontery and embarrassment.
It was known that the Germans were rapidly bringing up new batteries north of the Ancre while low visibility postponed the day of the attack.
Before Arak could finish, the hovercraft came to a sudden stop then rapidly descended.
The sensation was intensely arousing and she felt herself being quickly propelled rapidly to another climax.
Rapidly, she ordered sole angelique for them both, artichoke hearts, mushrooms tarragon, and green salad with vinaigrette dressing.
As Assai bore down, Semerket exhaled so that he could sink rapidly to the bottom of the lagoon.