rapid

rapid

See also: ràpid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapide, from Latin rapidus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæpɪd/

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• Rhymes: -æpɪd

Adjective

rapid (comparative more rapid or rapider, superlative most rapid or rapidest)

1. Very swift or quick.

   a rapid stream

   rapid growth

   rapid improvement

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

2. Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
3. Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
4. (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
5. (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.

Translations

Very swift or quick

Arabic: سَرِيع‎ (sarīʿ) Egyptian Arabic: سريع‎ (sarīʿ) Bashkir: тиҙ (tið), шәп (şäp) Belarusian: ху́ткі (be) (xútki), ско́ры (skóry) Bulgarian: бърз (bg) (bǎrz) Catalan: ràpid (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 快 (faai3) Mandarin: 快 (zh) (kuài), 迅速 (zh) (xùnsù) Czech: rychlý (cs) Dutch: snel (nl), snelle (nl) Esperanto: rapide (eo) Finnish: nopea (fi), ripeä (fi) French: rapide (fr) Galician: rápido (gl) m German: schnell (de) Greek: ταχύς (el) m (tachýs), γρήγορος (el) m (grígoros), γοργός (el) m (gorgós) Ancient: ταχύς (takhús), (Epic) θοός (thoós) Hungarian: gyors (hu) Icelandic: fljótur (is) Italian: rapido (it), deciso (it) Japanese: 速い (ja) (はやい, hayai), 急な (ja) (きゅうな, kyū na), 迅速な (ja) (じんそくな, jinsoku na) Korean: 빠르다 (ko) (ppareuda) Latin: rapidus, velox (la), incitus Latvian: ātrs (lv), ašs, straujš, žigls, knašs Macedonian: брз m (brz) Norwegian: rask (no), hurtig (no) Plautdietsch: schwind, flinkj Polish: szybki (pl) m Portuguese: rápido (pt) Romanian: repede (ro), rapid (ro) Russian: бы́стрый (ru) (býstryj), ско́рый (ru) (skóryj) Sanskrit: आशु (sa) (āśu), रघु (sa) (raghu) Scottish Gaelic: grad Slovak: rýchly Slovene: híter Spanish: rápido (es) Swedish: snabb (sv), hastig (sv) Ukrainian: швидки́й (švydkýj), ско́рий (skóryj), хутки́й (xutkýj) Volapük: vifik (vo) Westrobothnian: snɑr

Adverb

rapid (comparative more rapid, superlative most rapid)

1. (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.

Noun

rapid (plural rapids)

1. (often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
2. (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
3. (chess) Short for rapid chess.
   • 2010, Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess, page 41:

     In these rapid games we had just twenty-five minutes each to make all our moves, a far cry from traditional chess, where games can last up to seven hours.

   • 2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2:

     In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

   • 2022 September 2, Nitish Pahwa, Magnus Carlsen (quoted), “The World’s Greatest Chess Player Cannot Wait to Battle His Young, Rising Rivals”, in Slate‎:

     I haven’t played against Wesley So—I’ve played him a bunch online in rapid games, but not in classical rounds.

Translations

section of river

Bulgarian: бързей (bg) m (bǎrzej) Catalan: ràpid (ca) m Czech: peřej (cs) m Dutch: stroomversnelling (nl) f Esperanto: katarakto Finnish: koski (fi) French: rapides (fr) m pl Galician: doiras f pl German: Stromschnelle (de) f Hungarian: zúgó (hu), zuhatag (hu) Icelandic: flúðir f pl Irish: fánsruth m Italian: rapida (it) f, cataratta (it) f Japanese: 急流 (ja) (きゅうりゅう, kyūryū), 瀬 (ja) (せ, se) Komi-Zyrian: кось (kosʹ) Korean: 여울 (ko) (yeoul) Latvian: krāce f, straujums f, straujtece f Macedonian: брзак m (brzak) Mansi: ха̄ӈла (hāňla) Maori: taiheke, tanguru, kōrio Norwegian: Bokmål: stryk (no) n Nynorsk: stryk n Persian: تنداب‎ (tondâb) Polish: bystrzyna f, bystrze (pl) n, szypot m, progi pl Portuguese: corredeira (pt) f Russian: стремни́на (ru) f (stremnína), поро́г (ru) m (poróg) Spanish: rápido (es) m, rabión m Swedish: fors (sv) c Tagalog: lagaslasan Thai: แก่ง (th) (gɛ̀ng) Udmurt: уть (utʹ) Ukrainian: пороги m pl (porohy) Welsh: rhaeadr f, geirw f pl Westrobothnian: frøs m, fars m

Derived terms

• Big Rapids
• Cedar Rapids
• Grand Rapids
• Park Rapids
• Rapid City (from the noun)
• rapid fire, rapid-fire
• rapidity
• rapidly
• rapidness
• Rock Rapids
• ultrarapid
• Wisconsin Rapids

Related terms

• rapt

Anagrams

• Pardi, adrip, pardi, parid

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapide, Latin rapidus. Doublet of repede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpid/

Adjective

rapid m or n (feminine singular rapidă, masculine plural rapizi, feminine and neuter plural rapide)

1. fast, quick, rapid, swift, speedy, prompt, expeditious

Declension

Declension of rapid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	rapid		rapidă	rapizi	rapide
	definite	rapidul		rapida	rapizii	rapidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	rapid		rapide	rapizi	rapide
	definite	rapidului		rapidei	rapizilor	rapidelor

Synonyms

• repede, iute, grăbit, prompt, sprinten, înainte

Related terms

• rapiditate

Adverb

rapid

1. quickly, rapidly, swiftly, speedily, promptly, expeditiously

Synonyms

• repede, iute, prompt, degrabă