fast

4 letters in word "fast": A F S T.

Anagrams of fast:

• fats

Words found within fast:

aft as at fa fas fat sat st ta tas

• Definitions:
• acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast" at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot" (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay" barred: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors" debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" flying: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent" securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters" abstaining from food firm: unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends" firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"
• Deliberate abstention from certain or all food. When applied in a social or political conflict, it may be combined with a moral appeal seeking to change attitudes. It may also be intended simply to force the opponent to grant certain objections, in which case it is called a hunger strike.
• Depriving oneself of food for a period of time for a specific purpose, often spiritual. It is the "weakening" of the body in order to "strengthen" the spirit. It is interesting to note that sin entered the world through the disobedience of eating (Gen. 3:6). ...
• To secure, tie off, cleat, knot or fasten
• To abstain from certain or all food and drink (except water) for a period of time for the purpose of physical detoxification and rejuvenation.
• A race track at its best condition is said to be fast.
• main index is in shared memory, sorted, secondary indexes are hashcoded (the real work is done off-line, only once).
• FAST (Fournisseur d'Accès Sécurisés Transactionnels/Secure Access Gateaway) is the acronym of the project run by CDC-Mercure in conjunction with Thales, La Poste and Crédit Agricole. ...
• To be aggressive, betting or raising frequently.
• (fast) (fast) [AS faest firm; faestan to abstain from food] 1. immovable, or unchangeable; resistant to the action of a specific drug, stain, or destaining agent, as in acid-fast. 2. abstention from food.
• Secured (said of a rope or line) so as to be unable to shift.
• FAST CP, or Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol, takes a different approach (uses different algorithms) to data congestion. ...
• United States Canada and Mexico Free and Secure Trade is a clearance process for low-risk shipments. FAST is a harmonized clearance process for shipments of known compliant importers. FAST is for shipments destined to the United States (from Canada or Mexico) using highway mode of transport. ...
• Fast is a spiritual discipline by which food is voluntarily given up for a defined period of time. The practice, although common to almost all religions, was strengthened for Christians by the reference to Christ fasting for 40 days and 40 nights in the desert (Matt. 4). [Chapter 8] [Chapter 9]
• Freight Action Strategy for the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma Corridor project
• Joint Canada–United States initiative involving the Canada Border Services Agency and the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP). FAST supports moving pre-approved eligible goods across the border quickly as well as verifying trade compliance away from the border.
• Determines how quickly the instrument responds to fluctuating noise. Fast response has a time constant of 125 milliseconds. Slow response has a time constant of one second. OSHA regulations require the use of slow response.
• Despite the size of the thesaurus file (it is compressed), the component loads in less than a second on a P100 (24 MB RAM). Context topic lookup is near instantaneous.
• to keep from eating food, or certain foods
• Describes 1. a film that is very sensitive to light; 2. a lens that opens to a very wide aperture; 3. a short shutter speed.
• A system used by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in the United States to detect financial distress in large insurance companies. ...
• The Agilo Framework (especially the server-side part) is designed to be fast. Therefore, to reduce the thread scheduling overhead when multiple clients are connected, the Agilo connection layer is implemented using the non-blocking TCP sockets ("NIO") that were introduced in Java 1.4. ...
• The donor category added to records of individuals currently employed by the University of Idaho. Based on UI human resource records. Updated quarterly.
• To go without food for a certain period of time as a religious duty.
• Firefighter Assist and Search Team. See: "RIC".
• The camera assistant's motto. Everything he/she must do before each shot (Focus, Aperture, Shutter, Tach). (Camera)

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