Usually means: Quickly achieving speed; rapid movement.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fast, fast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fast, fast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fast, fast: Wordnik
  7. fast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FAST, Fast, fast: Wiktionary
  9. fast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FAST: Dictionary.com
  13. fast (adj.), fast (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FAST (stroke), FAST (telescope), FAST, Fast (song), Fast, The Fast (band), The Fast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fast: Rhymezone
  19. fast, fast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FAST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. fast: Free Dictionary
  23. fast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Fast, fast: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. fast: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  2. Fast (disambiguation), fast: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAST: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FAST: CCI Computer
  3. Fast (disambiguation), fast: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fast (disambiguation), fast: Medical dictionary
  4. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. fast: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fast: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fast: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fast: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fast: Dan's Poker
  2. Fast: Gambling Glossary
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Fast: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fast: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. FAST: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. Fast: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Fast, Fast: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See fasted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
adjective:  Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
adjective:  (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
adjective:  Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
adjective:  (nuclear physics, of a neutron) Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
adjective:  Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
adjective:  Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
adjective:  (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
adjective:  Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
adjective:  (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
adjective:  (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
adjective:  (dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
adjective:  Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
adjective:  (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
adverb:  In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
adverb:  (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .
adverb:  Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
adverb:  Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
adverb:  Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
noun:  (British, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
verb:  (intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
verb:  (intransitive) To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
verb:  (transitive) (academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating.
noun:  The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food
noun:  One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Initialism of Focused assessment with sonography for trauma.
noun:  Abbreviation of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope in China.

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