单词 | fast-improved |
释义 | > as lemmasfast-improved b. In sense A. 7, with the sense ‘that is or has — rapidly or in a short space of time’, as in fast-cooked, fast-improved, fast-repeated, etc. ΚΠ 1807 Port Folio 17 Oct. 254/2 Th'industrious boy, Pushing amain, drives on the increasing load; While thick behind the fast built haycocks rise. 1809 Connecticut Evangelical Mag. Aug. 312/1 An air of importance which seemed to give increasing force to each fast-repeated stroke of the oar. 1949 Music & Lett. 30 189 A certain number of fast-repeated chords, especially in the overture. 1982 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 10 May 67 The government reports floods of applications for many of the fast-created job vacancies. 1990 Sun Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 14 Long-cooked trotters and fast-cooked sweetbreads mingle happily inside a skin of caul. 2020 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 17 July 27 The Lions are tipped to be a fast improved side during the shortened 2020 campaign. < as lemmas |
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