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Haste vs. Speed — What's the Difference?

Haste vs. Speed — What's the Difference?

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Haste

Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry
Working with feverish haste
I write in haste

Speed

In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the rate of change of its position with time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero.

Haste

Archaic term for hasten

Speed

The rate at which someone or something moves or operates or is able to move or operate
We turned on to the runway and began to gather speed
The car has a top speed of 147 mph
An engine running at full speed

Haste

Rapidity of action or motion
The haste with which she climbed the stairs.
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Speed

Each of the possible gear ratios of a bicycle.

Haste

Rash or headlong action; precipitateness
Forgot the tickets in their haste to catch the train.

Speed

The light-gathering power or f-number of a camera lens.

Haste

To hasten or cause to hasten.

Speed

An amphetamine drug, especially methamphetamine.

Haste

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

Speed

Success; prosperity
Wish me good speed

Haste

(obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

Speed

Move quickly
I got into the car and home we sped

Haste

To urge onward; to hasten.

Speed

Make prosperous or successful
May God speed you

Haste

To move with haste.

Speed

Take or be under the influence of an amphetamine drug
More kids than ever are speeding, tripping, and getting stoned

Haste

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
The king's business required haste.

Speed

Distance traveled divided by the time of travel.

Haste

The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Speed

The limit of this quotient as the time of travel becomes vanishingly small; the first derivative of distance with respect to time.

Haste

To hasten; to hurry.
I 'll haste the writer.
They were troubled and hasted away.

Speed

The magnitude of a velocity.

Haste

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);
He soon regretted his haste

Speed

Swiftness of action
He wrote the first chapter with great speed.

Haste

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;
In his haste to leave he forgot his book

Speed

The act of moving rapidly
Finished the race in a burst of speed.

Haste

A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry;
In a hurry to lock the door

Speed

The state of being in rapid motion; rapidity
The river's speed made a rescue difficult.

Speed

A transmission gear or set of gears in a motor vehicle
What speed is the car in now?.

Speed

A numerical expression of the sensitivity of a photographic film, plate, or paper to light.

Speed

The capacity of a lens to accumulate light at an appropriate aperture.

Speed

The length of time required or permitted for a camera shutter to open and admit light.

Speed

(Slang) A stimulant drug, especially amphetamine or methamphetamine.

Speed

(Slang) One that suits or appeals to a person's inclinations, skills, or character
Living in a large city is not my speed.

Speed

(Archaic) Prosperity; luck.

Speed

To go, move, or proceed quickly
Sped to the rescue.

Speed

To drive at a speed exceeding a legal limit
Was speeding on the freeway.

Speed

To pass quickly
The days sped by. The months have sped along.

Speed

To move, work, or happen at a faster rate; accelerate
His pulse speeded up.

Speed

(Slang) To be under the influence of a stimulant drug.

Speed

To prove successful; prosper.

Speed

To get along in a specified manner; fare.

Speed

To cause to move or proceed quickly; hasten
No wind to speed the boat.

Speed

To increase the speed or rate of; accelerate. Often used with up
Speed up a car.
Sped up production.

Speed

To further, promote, or expedite (a legal action, for example).

Speed

(Archaic) To help to succeed or prosper; aid.

Speed

The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
How does Usain Bolt run at that speed?

Speed

The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
Speed limits provide information to the drivers about the safe speed to travel in average conditions.

Speed

(photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.

Speed

(photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).

Speed

(photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.

Speed

(photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.

Speed

Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.

Speed

(archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.

Speed

(slang) Personal preference.
We could go to the shore next week, or somewhere else if that's not your speed.

Speed

A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

Speed

(film) Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.

Speed

To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.

Speed

To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
God speed, until we meet again.

Speed

(intransitive) To go fast.
The Ferrari was speeding along the road.

Speed

(intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
Why do you speed when the road is so icy?

Speed

(transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.

Speed

To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.

Speed

(obsolete) To be expedient.

Speed

(archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.

Speed

(archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

Speed

To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.

Speed

To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

Speed

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.

Speed

The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails.

Speed

One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.

Speed

To go; to fare.
To warn him now he is too farre sped.

Speed

To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.

Speed

To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
Save London, and send true lawyers their meed!For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!
I told ye then he should prevail, and speedOn his bad errand.

Speed

To make haste; to move with celerity.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.

Speed

To be expedient.

Speed

To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
With rising gales that speed their happy flight.

Speed

To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
He sped him thence home to his habitation.

Speed

To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.

Speed

To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped.If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.

Speed

To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Speed

Distance travelled per unit time

Speed

A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens;
The project advanced with gratifying speed

Speed

Changing location rapidly

Speed

The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system

Speed

A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression

Speed

Step on it;
He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
The cars raced down the street

Speed

Move faster;
The car accelerated

Speed

Travel at an excessive or illegal velocity;
I got a ticket for speeding

Speed

Move very fast;
The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed

Speed

Cause to move faster;
He accelerated the car

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