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SPEED

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speed I. substantiv

1. viteză, iuţeală, rapiditate, velocitate, repeziciune; celeritate, grabă;

initial speed viteză iniţială;

with all speed cât se poate de repede, cu toată graba / viteza; în grabă, la repezeală, de grabă, în goana mare;

at full speed cu viteză maximă, cu toată viteza, în plină viteză, în goana mare;

top speed viteză maximă;

to pick up speed a câştiga viteză;

to make speed a se grăbi, a-i da zor;

speed record record de viteză.

2. (tehn.) viteză, turaţie;

three-speed engine motor cu trei viteze.

3. (fot.) fotosensibilitate.

4. (înv.) succes, reuşită;

to wish smb. good speed a ura cuiva noroc.

speed II. past şi. part. trec. sped verb A. intranzitiv

1. a goni; a se deplasa cu repeziciune; a merge repede / în grabă, a se grăbi;

time was speeding timpul trecea repede / fugea;

an arrow sped past him o săgeată trecu în zbor pe lângă el;

he sped down the street coborî strada în grabă;

(fam.) to speed from the mark a face un debut/ un start fericit.

2. (şi to speed well) (înv.) a reuşi, a prospera, a înflori, a-i merge bine;

to speed ill a merge prost, a-i merge prost;

how have you sped? cum v-a mers? cum v-au mers treburile?

speed II. past şi. part. trec. sped verb B. tranzitiv

1. (mai ales to speed up) a accelera (mişcarea, mersul); a grăbi, a iuţi (pasul); a activa (lucrul).

2. (înv.) a favoriza, a asista, a sprijini, a ajuta;

God speed him (well) Dumnezeu să-l ocrotească / să-i ajute!

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“God speed you, Master Hawtayne!” cried Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The speed with which Joe worked won Martin's admiration.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She obeyed him with what speed she might.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Then on he came again, until at last, catching sight of us, he gave a cry of joy, and ran for us full speed with a note held out at arm’s length.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this moment, still running at top speed, White Fang became suddenly aware of an attack from the side.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The dead man was an episode that was past, an incident that was dropped, in a canvas covering with a sack of coal, while the ship sped along and her work went on.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The Count stood up, and said, with a sweet courtesy which made me rub my eyes, it seemed so real:—You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: 'Welcome the coming; speed the parting guest.'

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,—as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough,—conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He staid of course, and Edmund had then ample opportunity for observing how he sped with Fanny, and what degree of immediate encouragement for him might be extracted from her manners; and it was so little, so very, very little—every chance, every possibility of it, resting upon her embarrassment only; if there was not hope in her confusion, there was hope in nothing else—that he was almost ready to wonder at his friend's perseverance.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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