Fast in a sentence as a noun

Turns out clients, for the most part, could not care less how hard and fast we worked.

The C virtual machine does not provide an accurate model of why your code is fast on a modern machine.

That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast.

Fast in a sentence as a verb

When we do fix bugs we will try to get to users as fast as possible.> 8. Replication was lackluster on busy serversThis simply sounds like a case of an overloaded server.

Bringing it down as fast as humanly possible and loudly so no-one else gets damaged in the meantime is entirely justified in a case like this.

They're the guys who go off and make algorithms they think are blazing fast, and sure for one tiny little use maybe, but then when you actually see the code it's a huge convolute mess for nothing.

Fast in a sentence as an adjective

There was a time when TED talks were mostly academics squeezing their usual hour long presentation into 20 minutes by simply talking really really fast.

Go look at Turbo Pascal if you want to know how to make the build/debug/run cycle fast.- Claiming that C is callable from anywhere via its standard ABI equates all the world with Unix.

Learn that lesson fast, or you'll be sorely disappointed in all your future projects, especially when you're just the guy-in-charge-of-negotiating-rates-for-business-cards...uh, I mean CEO.

Fast in a sentence as an adverb

People from the guys that work in mines to gather materials to make your computer internals, to guys that transport gas and **** switches at energy plants so that you can have electricity, to the guy that flips your burgers when you go to the fast food joint across the street, to the guy that cleans your offices.

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.

Fast definitions

noun

abstaining from food

See also: fasting

verb

abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"

verb

abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"

adjective

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"

adjective

(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast"

adjective

at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot"

adjective

(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"

adjective

resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors"

adjective

unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

See also: debauched degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute libertine profligate riotous

adjective

hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"

See also: flying quick

adjective

securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"

See also: firm immobile

adjective

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"

See also: firm loyal truehearted

adjective

(of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time; "a fast lens"

adverb

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"

adverb

firmly or closely; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight"

See also: tight