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  1. Nothing in the world move faster than light.
    世界上再没有比光运动得更快的东西了。
  2. The aim is simple enough: we want full employment, a faster rate of industrial development...
    目标很简单：我们需要全员就业，我们需要更快的工业发展速度……
  3. Optimize32 bit native code compiler with up to300%-400% faster application.
    优化32位本机代码编译器使应用程序加快了300％－400％。


faster
[ adv ]
more quickly
<adv.all>


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}.]
1. 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. --Burke.

2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
impregnable; strong.

Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser.

3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]

Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
smells. --Bacon.

6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak.

7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
horse.

8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
fast liver. --Thackeray.

9. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{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.


Faster \Fast"er\, n.
One who abstains from food.

  1. The country evidently needs still faster export growth. India also needs to increase exports and imports in relation to GDP.
  2. This means that the orbiter had dropped into a lower orbit." Such a maneuver would put distance between the two craft since a lower object orbits faster.
  3. "If the Merc closes down at night and allows Tokyo and London to establish markets in its commodities, it might decline faster," said Paul Tattersall, executive vice president for Globex, which intends to start by next summer.
  4. The only faster knockouts in heavyweight title history were Jim Jeffries' 55-second victory over Jack Finnegin in 1900, Michael Dokes' 1:03 win over Mike Weaver in 1982 and Tommy Burns' 1:28 defeat of Jem Roche in 1908.
  5. Medical care costs have risen 9% over the 12 months ended in June, faster than any other category in the index.
  6. After the spinoff, RLC will retain its truck rental and leasing business, which has been the faster growing and more profitable part of the company.
  7. Many expect that computer makers eventually will switch to gallium arsenide, a semiconductor inherently faster than silicon, but also much more difficult to work with.
  8. Some would like to go further, faster.
  9. The next thing I knew his car had hit the wall." Chafin said the race is normally run at about 10 mph and that Hagewood was going faster than that.
  10. The aim is to ensure that it can make faster decisions. The job losses come on top of an announcement last November that about 700 jobs would be lost over the next four years as a result of the closure of the society's headquarters in Hove.
  11. But last year, the weak dollar and import restrictions on apparel from the Far East started pushing clothing prices up faster than inflation.
  12. Debit card spending has grown faster than that for credit cards, with the bulk of debit card spending occurring in supermarkets and off-licences.
  13. Sales of foreign chips in Japan are still increasing but total sales, including Japanese chips, have grown even faster.
  14. Instead, companies worried about the sour economy will keep shifting bucks away from traditional media advertising because they can measure results faster with promotions.
  15. The system will improve call set-up time to put calls through an average of three seconds faster and improve the company's automated validation system to increase its ability to detect toll fraud, US Sprint said.
  16. "They've got competitors with faster boxes and better technology who've been there longer," he said.
  17. They said expensive missile systems are likely to face cuts and more will be spent on faster sealift and air transport capacity. Manpower cuts also will be deferred, the lawmakers said.
  18. But wage rises may now be starting to pick up, in part because unemployment has fallen faster than expected. Most economists agree that Britain still has an output gap, although not on its size.
  19. Researchers hope that treating pavement surfaces with microwave-absorbing materials will make them warm up faster and hasten the melting.
  20. If it sounds like the plot from a Hammer movie, the outcome was not so very different: though the children did grow faster, they then began to die of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disorder, the human version of 'Mad Cow Disease'.
  21. And Bush proposed that it all be done about five years faster than Gorbachev suggested.
  22. The ads are just the latest evidence of how television advertising is getting faster on the draw.
  23. AP Business News A Cambridge, Mass., company will get $12 million from the Pentagon to help it build a computer that would be 1,000 times faster than today's most advanced computers.
  24. For instance, analysts say, if KohlbergKravis Roberts & Co. were presenting its $24.53 billion bid for RJR Nabisco Inc. before banks today, it likely would win approval for its proposal faster than if it were buying an airline like United.
  25. The Japanese economy, meanwhile, has been growing faster than expected, putting upward pressure on prices.
  26. The computerized bone reconstruction is faster than microscopic analysis, yields more details and lets researchers examine inner bone structure without having to slice up the specimen, he said.
  27. As a result, he says, "production is falling faster than we expected." For Prof.
  28. The Cray-3 and Cray-2 are designed to have at least four times as much memory as the other Cray machines and compute at a faster rate.
  29. Household growth has accelerated in California and everywhere else in recent years, mostly because the number of young adults, the group that starts the bulk of new households, has grown faster than the population as a whole.
  30. It also makes western demands for faster market reforms in Russia more credible. 'Jeffrey Sachs (the Harvard professor turned Russian economic adviser) is telling the Russians to restructure or close down their factories.
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