Definition of Fast

Fast

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.

Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

Tenacious; retentive.

Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.

In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.

In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.

In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.

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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama