Revive vs Speed - What's the difference?
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To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
the state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity
the rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time
(photography) the sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
(photography) the duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
(photography) the largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
(photography) the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
(slang) any amphetamine drug used as a stimulant, especially illegally, especially methamphetamine
(archaic) luck, success, prosperity
* Bible, Genesis xxiv. 12
To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
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*:And yf I maye fynde suche a knyghte that hath all these vertues / he may drawe oute this swerd oute of the shethe / for I haue ben at kyng Ryons / it was told me ther were passyng good knyghtes / and he and alle his knyghtes haue assayed it and none can spede
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*18thc. , (Oliver Goldsmith), Introductory to Switzerland
*:At night returning, every labor sped , / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;
To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Fortune speed us!
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:with rising gales that speed their happy flight
(label) To go fast.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
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(label) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
*1982 , Carole Offir & Carole Wade, Human sexuality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p.454:
*:It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.
*2004 , James M. Cypher & James L. Dietz, The process of economic development, Routledge, p.359:
*:Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly.
To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
(label) To be expedient.
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(label) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:sped with spavins
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped . / If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
(label) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
*:He sped him thence home to his habitation.
To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
*(John Ayliffe) (1676-1732)
*:Judicial actsare sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
Revive is a related term of speed.
As a verb revive
is to return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.As a proper noun speed is
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(reviv)- The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived . 1 Kings xvii. 22.
- The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.
- Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness
- In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.
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- Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room
- The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry
- revive a metal after calcination.
Synonyms
* rediscover * resurrect * renewDerived terms
* revival * revivable * unrevivablespeed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- How does Usain Bolt run at that speed ?
- O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.
Synonyms
* velocityDerived terms
* lightspeed * speed bump * speed chess * speed camera * speed dating * speed demon * speed dial * speed freak * speedful * speed hump * speed limit * speed of light * speed of sound * speedometer * speed queen * speedread * speedrun * speed skating * speedway * speedySee also
Units for measuring speed : metres/meters per second, , [[ft/sec and fps, miles per hour, mph ; mach (aeronautical)Etymology 2
From (etyl) speden, from (etyl) .Verb
- Aristotle must find out the motion of Euripus; Pliny must needs see Vesuvius; but how sped they? One loseth goods, another his life.
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