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Rapid vs Disappear - What's the difference?

rapid | disappear |

As an adjective rapid

is rapid; quick; fast; speedy.

As a verb disappear is

(label) to vanish.

rapid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very swift or quick.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
  • Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
  • (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
  • (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic or colloquial) Rapidly.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
  • (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
  • Derived terms

    * rapidity * rapidly * rapidness * ultrarapid

    Anagrams

    *

    disappear

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To vanish.
  • (label) To make vanish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
  • , title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
  • (label) To go away; to become lost.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

    Synonyms

    * (to vanish) dematerialize, vanish

    Antonyms

    * (to vanish) appear

    Anagrams

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