Hasten vs Promenade - What's the difference?
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To move in a quick fashion.
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
* Bible, Psalms lv. 8
* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 7:
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
(label) A prom (dance).
A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
* 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
To walk.
To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
Hasten is a related term of promenade.
As nouns the difference between hasten and promenade
is that hasten is while promenade is .hasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
- [...] and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.
Synonyms
* rush * hurry * See also * (speed up) accelerateDerived terms
* hastenerAnagrams
* * * English ergative verbs ----promenade
English
(wikipedia promenade)Noun
(en noun)- The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
George Goodchild