fast
What is the Definition of fast?
Noun:
- abstaining from food
Verb:
- abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
- abstain from eating
Adjective:
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
- (used of timepieces)
- at a rapid tempo
- (of surfaces)
- resistant to destruction or fading
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- hurried and brief
- securely fixed in place
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion)
Adverb:
- quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
- or fast-closing
- firmly or closely
How can I use fast in a sentence?
What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened — one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.
No one was talking much except Hermione Granger, who was whispering very fast about all the spells she would learned and wondering which one she would need.
Harry, who could see a huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing down his bacon as fast as possible in case Dudley turned the table over.
Slowly, the dog's growls ceased — it tottered on its paws and fell to its knees, then it slumped to the ground, fast asleep.
Harry now carried a large cage that held a beautiful snowy owl, fast asleep with her head under her wing.