Rapid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAPID in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a swift-flowing part of a river
• a fast-flowing and turbulent part of the course of a river
• a part of a river where the current is very fast
ADJECTIVE:
• quick
• happening in a short time or at a great rate
• (of an action) characterized by great speed
• quick, swift
• Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
• 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.
• The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
• done or occurring in a brief period of time
• characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fast-moving
• a fast-moving part of a river

Words related to RAPID

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Words that contain RAPID

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How to use RAPID in a sentence

• John Ericsson lived in a period of rapid engineering development and change.
• In the year 1788, a proposal came from Glasgow to build a cotton mill on the banks of the Brawl burn, a rapid stream which ran through the parish.
• No further time was lost in resuming their rapid flight.
• Allston encourages me to think thus from the rapid improvement he says I have made.
• It appears that their languages are subject to very rapid changes.
• This rapid recovery of France surprised and disturbed Bismarck, who thought that never again, after the war of 1870, would she become a strong power.
• Our rapid advance, following on the defeat of the previous day, had the effect I hoped it would have.
• It is to the absence of the marriage tie that the late rapid decrease of the population of the Sandwich Islands and of Tahiti is in part to be ascribed.
• But we could hear the agitated and rapid ringing of the bell, and, not long after, the great cat went whining by the camp.
• Great levers have slow movements, small agents more rapid ones.
• Bill worked the clumsy craft over toward the right shore where the current was more rapid.
• The earl of Angus alone seems to have taken rapid steps in the same course of ambition which had been pursued by his kinsmen and rivals, the earls of Douglas.
• The Territories of the Union are generally in a condition of prosperity and rapid growth.
• She shook her head to set her hat straight, and turned her eyes in rapid smiling sweeps.
• The stamping is done by means of presses, and is a very rapid and complete operation.
• The river poured into it at the head, foaming and raging down a long chute, and swept out of it just in front of our camp in a merry, musical rapid.
• But the light machine guns posted in the trenches kept up a rapid and terrible crackle.
• On we go slowly struggling up rapid after rapid and when it is impossible to paddle and pole the canoes against the stream the crew stand on the rocks and lift them up.
• With the Compromises of 1850 the Whig party began its rapid decline.
• Under such a Government the rapid accumulation of wealth and population was a natural consequence.
• As in all warm countries, this precocious maturity is followed with rapid decay.

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