haste

  • 21Haste — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Haste >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 haste haste urgency Sgm: N 1 despatch despatch dispatch Sgm: N 1 acceleration acceleration spurt spirt forced march rush dash Sgm …

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  • 22haste — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great ▪ She worked with great haste. ▪ indecent (esp. BrE), undue, unseemly (esp. BrE) ▪ He accused the government of undue haste in bringing in the new law …

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  • 23haste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Swiftness Nouns haste, urgency; dispatch; acceleration, spurt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; impatience, impetuosity; expedition, earliness; hurry,… …

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  • 24haste — Une Haste, Veru, Semble qu il vient de Hasta, Les paisans font des hastes de longs bastons de bois. Haste, penac. Est ores masculin et signifie la broche longue de fer, platte, poinctue en l un des bouts, et amanotée en l autre, où lon embroche… …

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  • 25haste — {{11}}haste (n.) early 13c., from O.Fr. haste haste, urgency, hastiness (12c., Mod.Fr. háte), from Frankish *haifst violence, from W.Gmc. *haifstiz (Cf. Goth. haifsts strife, O.E. hæste violent, vehement, impetuous ). To make haste is recorded by …

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  • 26haste — hasteful, adj. hastefully, adv. hasteless, adj. hastelessness, n. /hayst/, n., v., hasted, hasting. n. 1. swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste. 2. urgent need of quick action;… …

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  • 27haste — [[t]he͟ɪst[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Haste is the quality of doing something quickly, sometimes too quickly so that you are careless and make mistakes. In their haste to escape the rising water, they dropped some expensive equipment... The translations… …

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  • 28haste — noun (U) 1 great speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time: I soon regretted my haste. | in your haste to do sth: In his haste to leave he forgot his briefcase. 2 in haste quickly or in a hurry: They left in haste,… …

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  • 29Haste — This interesting and uncommon name is of Old French origin, and is one of that group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. These were acquired in the first instance with reference to a person s …

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  • 30haste — n. 1) to make haste ( to hurry ) 2) in haste (they acted in great haste) * * * [heɪst] to make haste ( to hurry ) in haste (they acted in great haste) …

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