Tra từ fast - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

fast UK [fɑːst] US [fæst] adjective [ faster fastest ]

QUICK

1. <E > moving or happening quickly, or able to move or happen quickly
• fast cars
• a fast swimmer
• Computers are getting faster all the time.
• The fast train (= one that stops at fewer stations and travels quickly) to London takes less than an hour.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Fast and rapid ↑Short in time
2. If your watch or clock is fast, it shows a time that is later than the correct time.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Watches and clocks
3. specialized describes photographic film which allows you to take pictures when there is not much light or when things are moving quickly
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Photography
4. fast and furious
describes something that is full of speed and excitement
• It's not a relaxing film - it's pretty fast and furious.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Exciting and interesting

• The police car was going so fast, it must have been chasing someone.
• Isabel's heart was beating fast with fright.
• We were scrabbling over the rocks as fast as we could.
• I think the kitchen clock is fast.
• Given his age, he's a remarkably fast runner.

IMMORAL
5. old-fashioned disapproving without moral principles
• a fast crowd
• a fast woman
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Morally wrong and evil ↑Dishonest

FIXED
6. If the colour of a piece of clothing is fast, the colour does not come out of the cloth when it is washed.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Paints, dyes and pigments ↑Colour - general words ↑Words used to describe textiles ↑Continuous and permanent

adverb
<E > quickly
• The accident was caused by people driving too fast in bad conditions.
• You'll have to act fast.
• Children's publishing is a fast-growing business.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Fast and rapid ↑Short in time

• The police car was going so fast, it must have been chasing someone.
• "You always walk too fast for me, " she said complainingly.
• He drove so fast that I really felt my life was in danger.
• The seats in the hall were filling up fast.
• Poor standards of hygiene mean that the disease spreads fast.
Idioms: as fast as your legs would carry you ▪ play fast and loose with somebody

adverb , adjective
firmly fixed
• The glue had set and my hand was stuck fast.
• He tried to get away, but she held him fast.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Tight and tightening
Idiom: hold fast

noun countable
a period of time when you eat no food
• Hundreds of prisoners began a fast in protest about prison conditions.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Diets and dieting

verb intransitive
to eat no food for a period of time
• One day a week he fasts for health reasons.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Abstaining and refraining ↑Diets and dieting