Fast

French Meaning

English Meaning

1. Acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly; swift.
2. Accomplished in relatively little time: a fast visit.
3. Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously: made a fast buck scalping tickets.
4. Quick to understand or learn; mentally agile: a class for the faster students.
5. Indicating a time somewhat ahead of the actual time: The clock is fast.
6. Allowing rapid movement or action: a fast running track.
7. Designed for or compatible with a short exposure time: fast film.
8. Disposed to dissipation; wild: ran with a fast crowd.
9. Flouting conventional moral standards; sexually promiscuous.
10. Resistant, as to destruction or fading: fast colors.
11. Firmly fixed or fastened: a fast grip.
12. Fixed firmly in place; secure: shutters that are fast against the rain.
13. Firm in loyalty: fast friends.
14. Lasting; permanent: fast rules and regulations.
15. Deep; sound: in a fast sleep.
16. In a secure manner; tightly: hold fast.
17. To a sound degree; deeply: fast asleep.
18. In a rapid manner; quickly.
19. In quick succession: New ideas followed fast.
20. Ahead of the correct or expected time: a watch that runs fast.
21. In a dissipated, immoderate way: living fast.
22. Archaic Close by; near.
23. To abstain from food.
24. To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.
25. The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
26. A period of such abstention or self-denial.