Rapid
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
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Rapid Quotations
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Martha Beck
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
Al Gore
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Edward de Bono
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
James Monroe
Rapid Translations
rapid in Afrikaans is vinnig, haastig
rapid in Danish is hurtig
rapid in Dutch is gezwind, haastig, gauw, spoedig, snel
rapid in Finnish is nopea
rapid in French is torrentueux, nerveux, rapide
rapid in Italian is rapido, impetuoso
rapid in Latin is levis, celox, celer, velox, volubilis
rapid in Norwegian is hurtig
rapid in Swedish is snabb
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