rapid

See also: ràpid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapide and its etymon Latin rapidus.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æpɪd

Adjective

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

1. Very swift or quick.

   a rapid stream

   rapid growth

   rapid improvement

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• bus rapid transit
• rapid antigen test
• rapid automatized naming
• rapid eye movement
• rapid fire pistol
• rapid fire, rapid-fire
• rapidity
• rapidly
• rapidness
• rapid-onset gender dysphoria
• rapid response system
• rapid response team
• rapid transit
• rapid unplanned disassembly
• rapid unscheduled disassembly
• ultrarapid

Translations

Very swift or quick

• Afrikaans: vinnig (af)
• Arabic: سَرِيع (sarīʕ)

  Egyptian Arabic: سريع (sarīʕ)

• Bashkir: тиҙ (tiź), шәп (şəp)
• 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), sebes (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)
• Malay: ligas (of vehicles), deras (ms)
• 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), raudo (es)
• Swedish: snabb (sv), hastig (sv)
• Tongan: vave
• Ukrainian: швидки́й (švydkýj), ско́рий (skóryj), хутки́й (xutkýj)
• Urdu: سریع (ur) (sarī)
• Volapük: vifik (vo)

Adverb

rapid (comparative more rapid, superlative most rapid)

1. (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.

Noun

rapid (plural rapids)

1. (usually 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.

   Coordinate term: riffle

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 (Reflections on My Profession):

     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^[1]:

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

Derived terms

• Big Rapids
• Cedar Rapids
• Grand Rapids
• Neosho Rapids
• Park Rapids
• Rapid Ann, Rapidan
• Rapid City
• Rock Rapids
• Wisconsin Rapids

Translations

section of river — see also whitewater

• Afrikaans: stroomversnelling
• 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
• Indonesian: riam (id), jeram (id)
• Ingrian: poroga
• 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 (koś)
• Korean: 여울 (ko) (yeoul)
• Latvian: krāce f, straujums f, straujtece f
• Macedonian: брзак m (brzak)
• Malay: jeram (ms)
• Maori: taiheke, tanguru, kōrio
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ха̄ӈла (hāňla)
• 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 (uť)
• Ukrainian: пороги m pl (porohy)
• Welsh: rhaeadr f, geirw f pl

Related terms

• rapt

Anagrams

• Pardi, adrip, pardi, parid

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpid/

• Audio:

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Adjective

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

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

   Synonyms: repede, iute, grăbit, prompt, sprinten, înainte

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

Related terms

• rapiditate

Adverb

rapid

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

   Synonyms: repede, iute, prompt, degrabă