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As verbs the difference between fast and raped

is that fast is to abstain from food, or eat very little, especially for religious or medical reasons while raped is past tense of rape.

As an adjective fast

is firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.

As an adverb fast

is in a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved .

As a noun fast

is a train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.

As an interjection fast

is short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.

fast

English

(wikipedia fast)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fast, from (etyl) ; see it for cognates and further etymology. The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare (hard) in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related .

Adjective

(er)
  • (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
  • That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast !
  • Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
  • * Spenser
  • outlaws lurking in woods and fast places
  • (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".)
  • Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
  • I am going to buy a fast car.
  • (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
  • Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
  • * Shakespeare
  • all this while in a most fast sleep
  • (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
  • All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast .
  • (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.
  • (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
  • She's fast – she slept with him on their first date. .
  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast .
  • (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
  • Synonyms
    * (occurring or happening within a short time) quick, rapid, speedy, swift * (capable of moving with great speed) quick, rapid, speedy * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) ahead * (rapidly consents to sexual activity) easy, slutty * (firmly or securely fixed in place) firm, immobile, secure, stable, stuck, tight * (firm against attack) fortified, impenetrable * colour-fast * deep, sound
    Antonyms
    * (occurring or happening within a short time) slow * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) slow, behind * (firmly or securely fixed in place) loose * (firm against attack) penetrable, weak * light
    Derived terms
    * bedfast * chairfast * fasten (rapid) * fast and furious * fast food * fast-forward

    Adverb

    (er)
  • In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved .
  • (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .
  • Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
  • Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Pennies streaming from heaven , passage=Faster than a speeding bit, the internet upended media and entertainment companies. Piracy soared, and sales of albums and films slid. Newspapers lost advertising and readers to websites. Stores selling books, CDs and DVDs went bust. Doomsayers predicted that consumers and advertisers would abandon pay-television en masse in favour of online alternatives.}}
  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • Synonyms
    * (quickly) quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly * (in a firm or secure manner) firmly, securely, tightly * deeply * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) ahead
    Antonyms
    * (quickly) slowly * (in a firm or secure manner) loosely * lightly * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) behind

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
  • Synonyms
    * (rail transport) express, express train, fast train
    Antonyms
    * (rail transport) local, slow train, stopper

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target
  • Antonyms
    * (archery) loose

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fasten, from (etyl) . The noun is probably from (etyl) fasta.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To abstain from food, or eat very little, especially for religious or medical reasons.
  • Muslims fast during Ramadan.
  • * Bible, 2 Sam. xii. 21
  • Thou didst fast and weep for the child.
  • * Milton
  • Fasting' he went to sleep, and ' fasting waked.
  • * 2007 , John Zerzan, Silence , p. 3,
  • It is at the core of the Vision Quest, the solitary period of fasting and closeness to the earth to discover one's life path and purpose.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food
  • The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food
  • * Lent and Ramadan are fasts of two religions.
  • Synonyms
    * (act or practice) fasting
    Derived terms
    * break one's fast * breakfast * fast day

    Statistics

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    raped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rape)
  • Anagrams

    * * * *

    rape

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1971 , Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England :
  • There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
  • * 1997 , Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest , p. 18:
  • These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes' named after them; the fifth ' rape , Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.

    See also

    * hundred * wapentake

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) rapere (verb), (etyl) rap, rape (noun) (from (etyl) rapere). But compare (etyl) ."rape, v.2" and "rape, n.3" in the OED Online (Oxford University Press), [http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/158145 (accessed September 12, 2012)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1712', (Alexander Pope), ''The '''rape of the lock
  • * (rfdate), Sandys:
  • Ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
  • * 1977 , (JRR Tolkien), The Silmarillion :
  • Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , First Folio 1623, I.1:
  • Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, / Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape .
    Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, / My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
  • * 2000 , (Mary Beard), The Guardian , 8 Sep 2000:
  • The tale of the rape' of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the ' rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
  • The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally conceived as a crime committed by a man against a woman, but now often extended (under various legal systems) to include other kinds of forced sexual activity by persons of either sex.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , II:
  • I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters [...].
  • * 1990 , ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time , 22 Jan 1990:
  • Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
  • (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
  • * Sandys
  • Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
  • (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
  • Derived terms
    * ass rape/ass-rape * attempted rape * corrective rape * date rape/date-rape * frape * gang rape/gang-rape * marital rape * prison rape * rape alarm * rape camp * rape culture * rape kit * spousal rape * statutory rape * war rape

    Verb

    (rap)
  • (intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
  • * 1978 , (Gore Vidal), Kalki :
  • Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
  • * 1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 136:
  • It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly .
  • To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
  • Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
  • * 1718 , (Alexander Pope), translating Homer, The Iliad :
  • A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
  • To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
  • * 1892 , (Rudyard Kipling), Barrack-Room Ballads :
  • I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
  • (chiefly) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
  • * {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
  • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
  • * 2007 , Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier (ISBN 9966082670), page 51:
  • "They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped ."
  • ''My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
    Synonyms
    * (force sexual intercourse) ravish, violate, vitiate * (abuse) plunder, despoil
    Derived terms
    * frape * I've been raped * rapable, rapeable * rapist * rapt * rerape

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) rapen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rap)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Wordes Unto Adam :
  • So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
  • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) rapa, from .

    Noun

    (rape)
  • Rapeseed, Brassica napus .
  • * 2001 , Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café , page 231:
  • After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.

    Etymology 5

    From (etyl) rape, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
  • A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
  • (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
  • a rape of grapes
    (Ray)

    Quotations

    * 1971 , Bulletin of the European Communities : *: With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines

    Anagrams

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    References

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