speed
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”).
Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian спеши́ть (spešítʹ, “to hurry”), Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”), spērō (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek σπεύδω (speúdō, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).
Inflected forms:
form: speeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: speeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: speeded
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: speeded
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How does Usain Bolt run at that speed?
Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,
Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
gloss: The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Speed limits provide information to the drivers about the safe speed to travel in average conditions.
Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.
gloss: The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: I don’t even like speed. It’s alright if ya wanna stay awake for three days an’ clean yer room, but I’m terrible on no sleep. It just makes me anxious.
gloss: Luck, success, prosperity.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: St. Francis be my ſpeed, how oft to night / Haue my old feet ſtumbled at graues?
O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.
gloss: Personal preference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: We could go to the shore next week, or somewhere else if that's not your speed.
I used to dream of throwing on the heritage Burberry coat and teaming it with Hunter wellies (which is admittedly a very cute look), but a few years ago I realized an oversize option is actually my speed.
gloss: A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.
pos: intj
examples: “Speed,” Carlos, the soundman, said. […]
“Camera.”
“Rolling,” replied Bryce, the cameraman.
[…] the director called, “Roll 'em,” the sound man said, “Speed,” and Norling stepped in and said, […]
gloss: To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: And yf I maye fynde suche a knyghte that hath all these vertues / he may drawe oute this swerd oute of the shethe / for I haue ben at kyng Ryons / it was told me ther were passyng good knyghtes / and he and alle his knyghtes haue assayed it and none can spede
We have been praying for our husbands' healths,
Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
Are they returned?
Aristotle must find out the motion of Euripus; Pliny must needs see Vesuvius; but how sped they? One loseth goods, another his life.
18ᵗʰc., Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
At night returning, every labor sped, / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;
gloss: To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: God speed, until we meet again.
Fortune speed us! So we set forth to sea
with rising gales that sped their happy flight
gloss: To go fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Ferrari was speeding along the road.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
gloss: To exceed the speed limit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why do you speed when the road is so icy?
It had these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that’s always speeding.
gloss: To increase the rate at which something occurs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.
Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly[…].
gloss: To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Jackie is just speeding away / Thought she was James Dean for a day
If Hector had not been speeding, it was possible that his next thought would have hurt: he loves his uncle unconditionally, in a way he will never love me.
gloss: To be expedient.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: infected with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with spavins, rayed with yellows
A dire dilemma! either vvay I'm ſped, / If Foes, they vvrite, if Friends, they read me dead.
gloss: To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
gloss: To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
pos: verb
examples: He sped him thence, home to his habitation.
gloss: To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
pos: verb
examples: Judicial acts[…]are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
Synonyms: speed
velocity
Related words: angular velocity
acceleration
deceleration
fast
speedy
slow
quickly
slowly
move quickly
move slowly
cheetah
snail
lightning
glacier
Derived words: airspeed
at speed
bat speed
bespeed
clock speed
closing speed
constant speed drive
constant-speed propeller
cruising speed
design speed
displacement speed
film speed
flank speed
footspeed
four-speed
full speed ahead
gather speed
God-speed
God speed
good speed
ground speed
groundspeed
higher-speed rail
high-speed
high speed
high-speed rail
high-speed steel
high speed steel
hip speed
hull speed
hydrospeed
hyperspeed
idling speed
lightning speed
light speed
lightspeed
line speed
linespeed
low-speed
medium-speed
mobile speed bump
multispeed
multi-speed Europe
multispeeds
Newfoundland speed bump
off-speed
overspeed
pick up speed
Planck speed
polyspeed
rampspeed
rate of speed
shutterspeed
single-speed bicycle
slow speed control
speed bag
speedball
speedboard
speedboarding
speedboat
speed boat
speed bomb
speedbooster
speedbridge
speed bridge
speed bump
speed camera
speed check
speed chess
speed climber
speed climbing
speedcore
speedcube
speed cube
speed cushion
speed date
speed-dating
speed dating
speed demon
speed-dial
speed dial
speed flying
speedfreak
speed freak
speedful
speed garage
speed geeking
speed gun
speed hump
speedlamp
speedless
speedletter
speedlight
speed limit
speed limiter
speed loader
speed merchant
speed metal
speed networking
speedometer
speedometre
speedometry
speed order
speedpaint
speed parameter
speed pedelec
speed pulley
speed queen
speedread
speed read
speed-read
speed reading
speed riding
speed run
speedrun
speedshift
speedskate
speedskater
speed skater
speed skating
speed skier
speed skiing
speedsolver
speedsolving
speed stack
speed stacker
speed stacking
speedster
speed table
speed tape
speed teaching
speed trap
speed-up
speedwalk
speedwalking
speed walking
speedway
speedwell
speedwise
speed wobble
speedwork
speedworthiness
speedy
spread
spreading
stall speed
superspeed
synchronous speed
ten-speed
top speed
turn of speed
twelve-speed
two-speed
two-speed crossword
two-speed Europe
underspeed
unspeed
upon one's speed
up to speed
V speed
wanspeed
warp speed
wavespeed
wind speed
wire speed
Godspeed
speeder
despeed
dispeed
forespeed
misspeed
outspeed
speed up
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