[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fast \fast\, v. i. imp.  p. p. fasted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   fasting. as. faestan; akin to d. vasten, ohg.
   fast=en, g. fasten, icel.  sw. fasta, dan. faste, goth.
   fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to e. fast firm.
   1. to abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
      or in part; to go hungry.
      1913 webster

            fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 sam.
                                                  xii. 21.
      1913 webster

   fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.
      1913 webster
see also:
fasted fasting fasting day 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fast \fast\, a. compar. faster; superl. fastest. oe.,
   firm, strong, not loose, as. faest; akin to os. fast, d.
   vast, ohg. fasti, festi, g. fest, icel. fastr, sw.  dan.
   fast, and perh. to e. fetter. the sense swift comes from the
   idea of keeping close to what is pursued; a scandinavian use.
   cf. fast, adv., fast, v., avast.
   1. firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose,
      unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the
      door.
      1913 webster

            there is an order that keeps things fast. --burke.
      1913 webster

   2. firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
      impregnable; strong.
      1913 webster

            outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   3. firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
      alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
      1913 webster

   4. permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
      washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
      1913 webster

   5. tenacious; retentive. obs.
      1913 webster

            roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
            smells.                               --bacon.
      1913 webster

   6. not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
      1913 webster

            all this while in a most fast sleep.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
      horse.
      1913 webster

   8. given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
      reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
      fast liver. --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   9. 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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant,
      esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play
      fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy
      or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another.
      "play fast and loose with faith." --shak.

   fast and loose pulleys mach., two pulleys placed side by
      side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another
      shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re"engage
      the machinery driven thereby. when the machinery is to be
      stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to
      the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and
      vice versa.

   hard and fast naut., so completely aground as to be
      immovable.

   to make fast naut., to make secure; to fasten firmly, as
      a vessel, a rope, or a door.
      1913 webster
see also:
faster fastest fast avast fast and loose fast and loose pulleys 
hard and fast to make fast 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fast \fast\, n. oe. faste, fast; cf. as. faesten, ohg. fasta,
   g. faste. see fast, v. i.
   1. abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
      1913 webster

            surfeit is the father of much fast.   --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a
      spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious
      humiliation.
      1913 webster

   3. 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.
      1913 webster

   fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and
      religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of god.
      

   to break one's fast, to put an end to a period of
      abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's
      morning meal; to breakfast. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
fast fast day to break one's fast 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fast \fast\, n.
   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.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fast \fast\, adv. oe. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, as.
   faeste. see fast, a.
   1. in a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly;
      firmly; immovably.
      1913 webster

            we will bind thee fast.               --judg. xv.
                                                  13.
      1913 webster

   2. in a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly;
      extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
      1913 webster

   fast by, or fast beside, close or near to; near at hand.
      1913 webster

            he, after eve seduced, unminded slunk
            into the wood fast by.                --milton.
      1913 webster

            fast by the throne obsequious fame resides. --pope.
      1913 webster
see also:
fast fast by fast beside 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fast
     adj 1: acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly;
            "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a
            fast pace"; "a fast car" ant: slow
     2: used of timepieces indicating a time ahead of or later
        than the correct time; "my watch is fast" ant: slow
     3: at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot" ant: slow
     4: of surfaces conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road";
        "grass courts are faster than clay"
     5: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and
        doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house
        properly secured" syn: barred, bolted, latched, locked,
         secured
     6: resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors"
     7: unrestrained by convention or morality; "congreve draws a
        debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
        and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" syn: debauched,
         degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine,
         profligate, riotous
     8: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying
        glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
        syn: flying, quick
     9: securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after
        being hit by the car" syn: firm, immobile
     10: unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm
         ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of
         tippecanoe"- campaign song for william henry harrison;
         "fast friends" syn: firm, loyal, truehearted, fasta
     n : abstaining from food syn: fasting
     adv 1: quickly or rapidly often used as a combining form; "how
            fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could";
            "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers";
            "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening or fast-closing
            shutters"
     2: firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was
        stuck fast"; "held tight" syn: tight
     v 1: abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical
          reasons; "catholics sometimes fast during lent"
     2: abstain from eating; "before the medical exam, you must
        fast"
see also:
slow barred bolted latched locked secured 
debauched degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute 
libertine profligate riotous flying quick 
firm immobile loyal truehearted fasta 
fasting tight 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

349 moby thesaurus words for "fast":
   barmecidal feast, encratism, friday, lenten diet,
   lenten entertainment, lenten fare, pythagoreanism, pythagorism,
   rechabitism, sabbath, shakerism, spartan fare, stoicism, sunday,
   abandoned, abstain, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention,
   abstinence, accelerated, active, agile, aground, airtight, alert,
   amain, anchored, apace, ardent, asceticism, at flank speed,
   attached, avoidance, balanced, banyan day, bare subsistence,
   bonded, bound, bread and water, breakneck, brief, brisk, briskly,
   calculable, caught, celibacy, cemented, chained, chastity, chronic,
   church calendar, close, close to, closely, colorfast, committed,
   compact, confirmed, connected, constant, continence, cool, dashing,
   debauched, dedicated, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted,
   deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dependable, devoted, diet,
   dissipated, dissolute, dissolutely, double-dyed, double-quick,
   dustproof, dusttight, dyed-in-the-wool, eagle-winged,
   eat sparingly, ecclesiastical calendar, eschewal, established,
   expeditious, expeditiously, express, extravagant, extravagantly,
   fadeless, faithful, faithworthy, fastened, fasting, feast,
   fecklessly, fiducial, firm, firm as gibraltar, firmly, fish day,
   fixed, fixedly, flat-out, fleet, flying, free, fruitarianism,
   full tilt, gallant, galloping, gasproof, gastight, gay, glued,
   go hungry, grounded, gymnosophy, hair-trigger, hand over fist,
   hand over hand, hastily, hasty, headlong, held, hell for leather,
   hell-bent, hell-bent for election, hermetic, hermetically sealed,
   high and dry, high-speed, holy day, holytide, hurried, hurriedly,
   hustling, immediately, immoral, immovable, immovably, impacted,
   imperturbable, implanted, in a flash, in a twinkling, in a wink,
   in double time, in double-quick time, in equilibrium, in high,
   in high gear, in nothing flat, in seven-league boots,
   in short order, incorrigible, inculcated, indecorous, indecorously,
   indelible, inextricable, infixed, ingrain, ingrained, inseparably,
   instilled, intemperate, intemperately, inveterate, invincible,
   irresponsible, irreversible, jammed, keen, lack of food, lasting,
   lecherous, lecherously, licentious, licentiously, lickety-cut,
   lickety-split, liege, light of heel, light-footed, lightproof,
   lighttight, like a flash, like a shot, like wildfire, lively,
   long-established, loose, loosely, loyal, lustful, lustfully,
   meager diet, mercurial, moored, near, nephalism, nimble,
   nimble-footed, not eat, of easy virtue, oilproof, oiltight,
   on the double, packed, permanent, plain living, post, posthaste,
   precipitate, predictable, presto, profligate, promiscuous,
   promiscuously, prompt, promptly, pronto, quick, quick as lightning,
   quick as thought, quickly, rainproof, raintight, rakehell,
   rakehellish, rakehelly, raking, rakish, rapid, rapidly, reckless,
   recklessly, refraining, refrainment, reliable, resolute, right,
   rooted, running, sealed, secure, secured, securely, self-denial,
   self-indulgent, set, settled, settled in habit, sexual abstinence,
   short commons, shut fast, simple diet, smokeproof, smoketight,
   snappily, snappy, snug, solid, solidly, soon, sound, soundly,
   spanking, spare diet, speedily, speedy, stable, starvation diet,
   staunch, steadfast, steadfastly, steady, stormproof, stormtight,
   stranded, strong, stuck, stuck fast, substantial, sure, surefire,
   swift, swiftly, sybaritic, sybaritically, taped, teetotalism,
   tested, tethered, the pledge, thorough, tied, tight, tightly,
   total abstinence, transfixed, tried, tried and true, trippingly,
   true, trustworthy, trusty, unbridled, under forced draft, unfading,
   unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unrestrained, unrestrainedly,
   unshakable, unshakably, unshakeable, unshakeably, unwavering,
   vegetarianism, wanton, wantonly, water-repellant, waterproof,
   watertight, wedged, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded,
   whip and spur, wild, wildly, windproof, windtight, winged,
   with all haste, with all speed, with giant strides,
   with rapid strides, with speed, without nerves, xerophagia,
   xerophagy

[8] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

fast
     first application system test
     
     

[9] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

fast
     forschungsinstitut fuer angewandte software-technologie e.v. org.
     
     

[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

fast
     
        1.  federation against software theft.
     
        2.  fortran automatic symbol translator.
     
        1996-05-19
     
     
see also:
federation against software theft fortran automatic symbol translator 

[11] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

fast
   the sole fast required by the law of moses was that of the great
   day of atonement q.v., lev. 23:26-32. it is called "the fast"
   acts 27:9.
   
     the only other mention of a periodical fast in the old
   testament is in zech. 7:1-7; 8:19, from which it appears that
   during their captivity the jews observed four annual fasts.
   
     1. the fast of the fourth month, kept on the seventeenth day
   of tammuz, the anniversary of the capture of jerusalem by the
   chaldeans; to commemorate also the incident recorded ex. 32:19.
   comp. jer. 52:6, 7.
   
     2. the fast of the fifth month, kept on the ninth of ab
   comp. num. 14:27, to commemorate the burning of the city and
   temple jer. 52:12, 13.
   
     3. the fast of the seventh month, kept on the third of tisri
   comp. 2 kings 25, the anniversary of the murder of gedaliah
   jer. 41:1, 2.
   
     4. the fast of the tenth month comp. jer. 52:4; ezek.
   33:21; 2 kings 25:1, to commemorate the beginning of the siege
   of the holy city by nebuchadnezzar.
   
     there was in addition to these the fast appointed by esther
   4:16.
   
     public national fasts on account of sin or to supplicate
   divine favour were sometimes held. 1. 1 sam. 7:6; 2. 2 chr.
   20:3; 3. jer. 36:6-10; 4. neh. 9:1.
   
     there were also local fasts. 1. judg. 20:26; 2. 2 sam.
   1:12; 3. 1 sam. 31:13; 4. 1 kings 21:9-12; 5. ezra
   8:21-23: 6. jonah 3:5-9.
   
     there are many instances of private occasional fasting 1 sam.
   1:7: 20:34; 2 sam. 3:35; 12:16; 1 kings 21:27; ezra 10:6; neh.
   1:4; dan. 10:2,3. moses fasted forty days ex. 24:18; 34:28,
   and so also did elijah 1 kings 19:8. our lord fasted forty
   days in the wilderness matt. 4:2.
   
     in the lapse of time the practice of fasting was lamentably
   abused isa. 58:4; jer. 14:12; zech. 7:5. our lord rebuked the
   pharisees for their hypocritical pretences in fasting matt.
   6:16. he himself appointed no fast. the early christians,
   however, observed the ordinary fasts according to the law of
   their fathers acts 13:3; 14:23; 2 cor. 6:5.
   

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