Fast vs Raped - What's the difference?
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(dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
* Spenser
(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.
(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
(of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
(obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
* Francis Bacon
(colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
(of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
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)
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(British, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
(archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target
To abstain from food, or eat very little, especially for religious or medical reasons.
* Bible, 2 Sam. xii. 21
* Milton
* 2007 , John Zerzan, Silence , p. 3,
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.
(rape)
* 1971 , Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England :
* 1997 , Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest , p. 18:
* 1712', (Alexander Pope), ''The '''rape of the lock
* (rfdate), Sandys:
* 1977 , (JRR Tolkien), The Silmarillion :
* c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , First Folio 1623, I.1:
* 2000 , (Mary Beard), The Guardian , 8 Sep 2000:
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:
* 1990 , ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time , 22 Jan 1990:
(obsolete) That which is snatched away.
* Sandys
(obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
* 1978 , (Gore Vidal), Kalki :
* 1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 136:
To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
* 1718 , (Alexander Pope), translating Homer, The Iliad :
To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
* 1892 , (Rudyard Kipling), Barrack-Room Ballads :
(chiefly) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
* {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
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, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
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, 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:
(obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Wordes Unto Adam :
Rapeseed, Brassica napus .
* 2001 , Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café , page 231:
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.
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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)- That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast !
- outlaws lurking in woods and fast places
- I am going to buy a fast car.
- all this while in a most fast sleep
- All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast .
- Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.
- She's fast – she slept with him on their first date. .
- There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast .
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, soundAntonyms
* (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 * lightDerived terms
* bedfast * chairfast * fasten (rapid) * fast and furious * fast food * fast-forwardAdverb
(er)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.}}
Synonyms
* (quickly) quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly * (in a firm or secure manner) firmly, securely, tightly * deeply * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) aheadAntonyms
* (quickly) slowly * (in a firm or secure manner) loosely * lightly * (ahead of the correct time or schedule) behindNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (rail transport) express, express train, fast trainAntonyms
* (rail transport) local, slow train, stopperInterjection
(en interjection)Antonyms
* (archery) looseEtymology 2
From (etyl) fasten, from (etyl) . The noun is probably from (etyl) fasta.Verb
(en verb)- Muslims fast during Ramadan.
- Thou didst fast and weep for the child.
- Fasting' he went to sleep, and ' fasting waked.
- 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)Synonyms
* (act or practice) fastingDerived terms
* break one's fast * breakfast * fast dayStatistics
*Anagrams
* * * English contranyms English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----raped
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *rape
English
Etymology 1
Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 * wapentakeExternal links
*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)- Ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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 [...].
- Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
- Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
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 rapeVerb
(rap)- Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
- It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly .
- Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
- A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
- I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
- "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, despoilDerived terms
* frape * I've been raped * rapable, rapeable * rapist * rapt * rerapeExternal links
* (rape)Etymology 3
From (etyl) rapen, from (etyl) .Verb
(rap)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Etymology 4
From (etyl) rapa, from .Noun
(rape)- After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.
External links
* (rapeseed) * (Brassica napus)Etymology 5
From (etyl) rape, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a rape of grapes
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