Abstaining from food.

synonym: fasting.

Roget 956: fasting; xerophagy^†; famishment, starvation.    fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima^†; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feast^†; short rations.    ... show more

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity^†.    bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.    anniversary, jubilee, centenary.    catamenia^†, courses, menses, menstrual flux.    [Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday &c.; months of the year; January &c.; feast, fast &c.; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day &c.; Allhallows^†, Allhallowmas^†, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile^†, Candlemas^†, Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween, Hallowmas^†, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.], St.    Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.    punctuality, regularity, steadiness.    ... show more

Roget 998: rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation etc. (spell) 993; service, psalmody etc. (worship) 990.    ministration; preaching, preachment; predication, sermon, homily, lecture, discourse, pastoral.    [Christian ritual for induction into the faith] baptism, christening, chrism; circumcision; baptismal regeneration; font.    confirmation; imposition of hands, laying on of hands; ordination etc. (churchdom) 995; excommunication.    [Jewish rituals] Bar Mitzvah, Bas Mitzvah [Fr.], Bris.    Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion; the sacrament, the holy sacrament; celebration, high celebration; missa cantata [Lat.]; asperges^†; offertory; introit; consecration; consubstantiation, transubstantiation; real presence; elements; mass; high mass, low mass, dry mass.    matrimony etc. 903; burial etc. 363; visitation of the sick.    seven sacraments, impanation^†, subpanation^†, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance etc. (atonement) 952; telling of beads, processional; thurification^†, incense, holy water, aspersion.    relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax [Lat.], pyx, agnus Dei [Lat.], censer, thurible, patera^†; eileton^†, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal^†, urceus^†.    ritualism, ceremonialism; sabbatism^†, sabbatarianism^†; ritualist, sabbatarian^†.    holyday, feast, fast.    [Christian holy days] Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas^†, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day.    [Moslem holy days] Ramadan, Ramazan; Bairam &c.. etc. [Jewish holy days] Passover; Shabuoth; Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement; Rosh Hashana, New Year; Hanukkah, Chanukkah, Feast of Lights; Purim, Feast of lots.    ... show more

Dutch: vasten, vastentijd
Polish: post

Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons.

Roget 956: fast, starve, clem^†, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey^†; make two bites of a cherry.   

Roget 990: worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere etc. 928; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship.    pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions; beseech etc. (ask) 765; say one's prayers, tell one's beads.    return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off propitiate [U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms.    work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate etc. (rite) 998.    ... show more

Abstain from eating.

Dutch: vasten

Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly.

Roget 852: fashionable; in fashion etc. n.; a la mode, comme il faut [Fr.]; admitted in society, admissible in society etc. n.; presentable; conventional etc. (customary) 613; genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike^†, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite etc. (courteous) 894.    polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue [Fr.]; unembarrassed, degage [Fr.]; janty^†, jaunty; dashing, fast.    modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; all the rage, all the go^†; with it, in, faddish.    in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue [Fr.] etc. (ornament) 847.    ... show more

Polish: szparki, szybki, ścigły, prędki

used of timepieces Indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time.

At a rapid tempo.

of surfaces Conducive to rapid speeds.

Resistant to destruction or fading.

Unrestrained by convention or morality:
— Fast women.

synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous.

Roget 954: intemperate, inabstinent^†; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.    brutish, crapulous^†, swinish, piggish.    Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.    ... show more

Polish: lubieżny, rozwiązły

Hurried and brief:
— A fast visit.

synonyms: flying, quick.

Roget 682: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring.    nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed; featly^†, tripping.    quick, prompt, yare^†, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast etc. (swift) 274; quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake [U.S.] etc. (intelligent) 498.    forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute etc. 604.    industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking; intent etc. (attention) 457; indefatigable etc. (persevering) 604.1; unwearied; unsleeping^†, never tired; plodding, hard-working etc. 686; businesslike, workaday.    bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken.    working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at call; up and doing, up and stirring.    busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger.    meddling etc. v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious^†, intrigant^†.    astir, stirring; agoing^†, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert, etc. (vigilant) 459.    ... show more

Roget 274: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped^†; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active etc. 682; flying, galloping etc. v.; light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow etc. n.; quick as lightning etc. n., quick as a thought.    ... show more

Roget 113: instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous^†, hasty; quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as electricity.    speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift, lively, blitz; rapid (velocity) 274.    ... show more

Polish: szybki

Securely fixed in place.

synonyms: firm, immobile.

Roget 150: unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent etc. 141; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial etc. (diuturnal) 110^†.    fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial^†; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established etc. v.; vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.    tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established etc. v.; deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate etc. 606.    transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded.    [movable object rendered unmovable] stuck, jammed; unremovable; quiescent etc. 265; deterioration etc. 659.    indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable^†, incommutable^†, irresoluble^†, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless^†, inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable^†; indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous^†; insusceptible, insusceptible of change.    ... show more

Roget 43: joined etc. v.; joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand.    firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved^†; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable^†, severable.    ... show more

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause:
— Fast friends.

synonyms: firm, loyal, truehearted.

of a photographic lens or emulsion Causing a shortening of exposure time.

Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form).

Roget 43: jointly etc. adj.; in conjunction with etc. (in addition to) 37; fast, firmly, etc. adj.; intimately.   

Firmly or closely:
— Held fast to the rope.
— Her foot was stuck fast.

synonym: tight.