Sprint vs Celerity - What's the difference?
sprint | celerity |
A short race at top speed
A burst of speed or activity
In (Agile software development), a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
(ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period
(in literary usage) Speed.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , chapter 48:
* 1937 , Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon , chapter 11:
(oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
As nouns the difference between sprint and celerity
is that sprint is while celerity is (in literary usage) speed.sprint
English
(wikipedia sprint)Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
* prints ----celerity
English
Noun
(-)- The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity , were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
“My parsnip wine is really extra good this year. Dr Jellyfield always takes a glass when he comes—which isn’t very often, I’m pleased to say, because my health is always remarkably good.”
“That will not prevent me from drinking to it,” said Peter, disposing of the parsnip wine with a celerity which might have been due to eagerness but, to Harriet, rather suggested a reluctance to let the draught linger on the palate.