rapid
US: /ˈɹæpəd/, /ˈɹæpɪd/
UK: /ɹˈæpɪd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
rapid /'ræpid/- tính từ
- nhanh, nhanh chóng, mau lẹ
- a rapid decline in health: sự giảm sút sức khoẻ nhanh chóng
- a rapid river: con sông chảy xiết
- đứng (dốc)
- a rapid slope: một dốc đứng
- nhanh, nhanh chóng, mau lẹ
- danh từ, (thường) số nhiều
- thác ghềnh
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective1 [usually before noun] happening in a short period of time: rapid change / expansion / growth + a rapid rise / decline in sales + The patient made a rapid recovery.
2 done or happening very quickly: a rapid pulse / heartbeat + The guard fired four shots in rapid succession. + The disease is spreading at a rapid rate. - FAST
rapidity noun [U]: the rapidity of economic growth + The disease is spreading with alarming rapidity.
rapidly adverb: a rapidly growing economy + Crime figures are rising rapidly.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
quick, fast, swift, speedy, high-speed, brisk, expeditious, prompt, express, fleet, lightning(-fast), alacritous; hurried, hasty, precipitate, impetuous, immediate, instantaneous, instant, sudden:
The company we use offers rapid delivery service. What do you suppose occasioned Flannery's rapid departure?
Collocation
VERBS
be, seem | become
ADV.
exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, unusually, very | fairly, quite, relatively
Concise dictionary
rapids|rapider|rapidest'ræpɪdnoun
+a part of a river where the current is very fast
adj.
+done or occurring in a brief period of time
+characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
