Soon vs Rapid - What's the difference?
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Occurring within a short time, or quickly.
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, chapter=4, title= (label) Immediately, instantly.
Within a short time; quickly.
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Readily; willingly; used with would , or some other word expressing will.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
Very swift or quick.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= 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.
(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.
As adjectives the difference between soon and rapid
is that soon is occurring within a short time, or quickly while rapid is rapid; quick; fast; speedy.As an adverb soon
is (label) immediately, instantly.soon
English
(wikipedia soon)Adjective
(er)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Adverb
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
- How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
- I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Derived terms
* get well soon * sooner or later * soon enough * soonish * too soonStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----rapid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.
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.
Chico Harlan
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."}}