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/rˈæpəd/ /rˈæpɪd/ Listen

noun

Rapids, Rapid n. The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. For boaters on the river, it is a place that can be hazardous, with danger of capsizing or crashing into large rocks. "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past."

adjective

Rapid adj.

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. "Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels."

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

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Etymology of 'Rapid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rapid" Quotes from Famous Books

... enable my mistress to keep up with me at about ten yards' distance; when we had run about three miles I felt certain that she could not proceed much further: speak she could not, and as I ran without once looking behind me, she could make no sign. I continued at a less rapid pace for about a mile further. I did this to enable her to keep up with me, and to recover my own breath as much as possible previous to a start. The voices of the Indians had long been out of hearing, ...

— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat

... closed. It is midnight; and, as usual, I am and have been sleepless. I am full of tossings to and fro until the dawn. All temporal blessings seem to be expressed by one word—Sleep.... Disease is advancing with rapid strides; many symptoms of paralysis; that or insanity certain, unless God in mercy to myself and my friends ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... that sound coming from down the highway. A steady chug- chug—a sort of roar, as of a battery of rapid-fire guns going off in double relays! And, mingled with the explosions, there was ...

— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood

... eating. At eleven AM on the 18th, we arrived at the village of Cruzes, the point where the river ceases to be navigable for canoes, and from whence you take horse, or rather mule, for Panama. For about fifteen or twenty miles below Cruzes, the river becomes rapid, and full of shoals, when the oars are laid aside, and the canoes are propelled by ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... through it all too soon, for the compelling grandeur of the Brule grips one. The river here is held between vertical walls of the reddest of red sandstone against which the lush greenery makes a striking contrast. Twenty miles below is the Boiler Rapid. It got its name not from its churning water but because the boiler of the steamer Wrigley was lost here and still remains at the bottom of the basin. The walls of this rapid are as clear-cut as if wrought into smoothness by mallet and chisel. The tar-soaked ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

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