Cinque-pace
(n.) A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. |
Club-rush
(n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush. |
Fast
(v. i.) To abstain from food |
Fast
(v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty |
Fast
(v. i.) Abstinence from food |
Fast
(v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation. |
Fast
(v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time |
Fast
(v.) Firmly fixed |
Fast
(v.) Firm against attack |
Fast
(v.) Firm in adherence |
Fast
(v.) Permanent |
Fast
(v.) Tenacious |
Fast
(v.) Not easily disturbed or broken |
Fast
(v.) Moving rapidly |
Fast
(v.) Given to pleasure seeking |
Fast
(a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner |
Fast
(a.) In a fast or rapid manner |
Fast
(n.) That which fastens or holds |
Fast-handed
(a.) Close-handed |
Fast
(n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. |
Pace
(n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking |
Pace
(n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other |
Pace
(n.) Manner of stepping or moving |
Pace
(n.) A slow gait |
Pace
(n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble |
Pace
(n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure. |
Pace
(n.) A broad step or platform |
Pace
(n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. |
Pace
(v. i.) To go |
Pace
(v. i.) To proceed |
Pace
(v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse |
Pace
(v. i.) To pass away |
Pace
(v. t.) To walk over with measured tread |
Pace
(v. t.) To measure by steps or paces |
Pace
(v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of |
Quickly
(adv.) Speedily |
Rapid
(a.) Very swift or quick |
Rapid
(a.) Advancing with haste or speed |
Rapid
(a.) Quick in execution |
Rapid
(a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade |
Rush
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus. |
Rush
(n.) The merest trifle |
Rush
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste |
Rush
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation |
Rush
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence |
Rush
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error. |
Rush
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness |
Rush
(n.) Great activity with pressure |
Rush
(n.) A perfect recitation. |
Rush
(n.) A rusher |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
| trick fast one a | a cunning or deceitful action or device, he played a trick on me, he pulled a fast one and got away with it |
| fast track | a rapid means of achieving a goal, they saw independence as the fast track to democracy, he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder, the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped |
pace
stride
tread | a step in walking or running |
| fast break | (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball |
| pace lap | the first lap of a car race that prepares the cars for a fast start |
haste
hurry
rush
rushing | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner, in his haste to leave he forgot his book |
| rush rushing | (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line, the linebackers were ready to stop a rush |
fast
fasting | abstaining from food |
| gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
| fast lane | the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly |
| fast reactor | nuclear reactor in which nuclear fissions are caused by fast neutrons because little or no moderator is used |
| pace car | a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course |
rapid transit
mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
rushlight
rush candle | a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick |
| fast lane | a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation, life in fashion's fast lane has taught her a lot |
| pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
rapid climb
rapid growth
zoom | a rapid rise |
| rush | a sudden burst of activity, come back after the rush |
rush
spate surge
upsurge | a sudden forceful flow |
boom bonanza
gold rush
gravy
godsend
manna from heaven
windfall
bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
bang
boot
charge
rush
flush
thrill
kick | the swift release of a store of affective force, they got a great bang out of it, what a boot!, he got a quick rush from injecting heroin, he does it for kicks |
| fast food | inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly |
| Rapid City | a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills |
| rapid | a part of a river where the current is very fast |
Rush
Benjamin Rush | physician and American Revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence (-) |
Juncaceae
family Juncaceae
rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes |
| rush | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
bulrush bullrush common rush
soft rush
Juncus effusus | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America |
jointed rush
Juncus articulatus | rush of Australia |
toad rush
Juncus bufonius | low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground, nearly cosmopolitan |
hard rush
Juncus inflexus | tall rush of temperate regions |
salt rush
Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
slender rush
Juncus tenuis | tufted wiry rush of wide distribution |
| rush aster | a variety of aster |
rush grass
rush-grass | grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles |
chufa
yellow nutgrass
earth almond
ground almond
rush nut
Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
papyrus
Egyptian paper reed
Egyptian paper rush
paper rush
paper plant
Cyperus papyrus | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times |
cotton grass
cotton rush | any sedge of the genus Eriophorum, north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes |
| spike rush | a sedge of the genus Eleocharis |
needle spike rush
needle rush
slender spike rush
hair grass
Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush, popular as aerator for aquariums |
creeping spike rush
Eleocharis palustris | cylindrical-stemmed sedge |
rush rose
Helianthemum scoparium | woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States |
scouring rush
rough horsetail
Equisetum hyemale
Equisetum hyemale robustum
Equisetum robustum | evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems, formerly used for scouring utensils |
variegated horsetail
variegated scouring rush
Equisetum variegatum | northern North America, Greenland, northern and central Europe |
fast buck
quick buck | quick or easy earnings, they are traders out to make a fast buck |
yard
pace | a unit of length equal to feet, defined as . centimeters, originally taken to be the average length of a stride |
| Roman pace | an ancient Roman unit of length (. English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground |
| geometric pace | a modern version of the Roman pace now taken to be feet |
| military pace | the length of a single step in marching (taken to beinches for quick time or inches for double time) |