Haste vs Heist - What's the difference?
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Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
(obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
* Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
To urge onward; to hasten
To move with haste.
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition=
, passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
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(slang) A heist film: a film whose plot centers around an attempted robbery.
* 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", '' volume 32 number 10, page 28,
In transitive terms the difference between haste and heist
is that haste is to urge onward; to hasten while heist is to steal, rob, or hold up (something).haste
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Noun
(-)- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
- The king's business required haste .
- I said in my haste , All men are liars.
Derived terms
* hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverbVerb
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists .