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单词 hasting
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hasting


haste

H0079700 (hāst)n.1. Rapidity of action or motion: the haste with which she climbed the stairs.2. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness: forgot the tickets in their haste to catch the train. intr. & tr.v. hast·ed, hast·ing, hastes Archaic To hasten or cause to hasten.Idiom: make haste To move or act swiftly; hurry.
[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]Synonyms: haste, celerity, dispatch, expedition, hurry, speed
These nouns denote rapidity or promptness of movement or activity: left the room in haste; a train moving with great celerity; advanced with all possible dispatch; finished the project with remarkable expedition so as to meet the deadline; was in a hurry to get home; driving with excessive speed.Antonym: deliberation

hasting

, hasty - An early-ripening fruit or vegetable is a hasting and such a food that ripens early is termed "hasty."See also related terms for hasty.
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Hasting

(hā`stĭng), fl. last half of 9th cent., leader of the VikingsVikings,
Scandinavian warriors who raided the coasts of Europe and the British Isles from the 9th cent. to the 11th cent. In their language, the word "viking" originally meant a journey, as for trading or raiding; it was not until the 19th cent.
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, called Hasting the Pirate. He ravaged the coasts of France, Spain, and Italy, went into Morocco, plundered in the south of France, and took a fleet to England late in Alfred's reign.
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