different between speed vs tao

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English spede (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English sp?d (“luck, prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?di (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?an, Proto-Germanic *sp?an? (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English sp?wan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian ???????? (spešít?, “to hurry”), Latin sp?s (“hope, expectation”), sp?r? (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek ?????? (speúd?, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).

Noun

speed (countable and uncountable, plural speeds)

1. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.

   Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, velocity

2. (mathematics, physics) The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.

   Hyponyms: lightspeed, speed of light, speed of sound

3. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
4. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
5. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
6. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
7. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:methamphetamine

8. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
9. (slang) Personal preference.

10. (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

    Synonyms: DgammaDspot, gamma of the gamma

    Hypernym: Greeks

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Units for measuring speed: metres/meters per second, m/s, kilometres/kilometers per hour, km/h (metric); knot, kt, kn (nautical); feet per second, ft/s, ft/sec and fps, miles per hour, mph (imperial and U.S. customary); mach (aeronautical)

Etymology 2

From Middle English speden, from Old English sp?dan (“to speed, prosper, succeed, have success”), from Proto-West Germanic *sp?dijan (“to succeed”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“to meet with success, assist, promote, accomplish, speed”), Dutch spoeden (“to hurry, rush”), Low German spoden, spöden (“to hasten, speed”), German sputen, spuden (“to speed”).

Verb

speed (third-person singular simple present speeds, present participle speeding, simple past and past participle sped or (mostly UK) speeded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene i^[1]:

     We have been praying for our husbands' healths,

     Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.

     Are they returned?

   • 18^thc., Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

     At night returning, every labor sped, / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;

2. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
   • with rising gales that sped their happy flight

3. (intransitive) To go fast.
4. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.

5. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
   • 1982, Carole Offir & Carole Wade, Human sexuality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p.454:

     It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.

   • 2004, James M. Cypher & James L. Dietz, The process of economic development, Routledge, p.359:

     Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly […].

6. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
   • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, Allen and Unwin, p.46:

     If Hector had not been speeding, it was possible that his next thought would have hurt: he loves his uncle unconditionally, in a way he will never love me.

7. (obsolete) To be expedient.
8. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
9. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
10. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.

    • He sped him thence, home to his habitation.

11. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
    • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

      Judicial acts […] are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.

Usage notes

• The Cambridge Guide to English Usage indicates that sped is for objects in motion (the race car sped) while speeded is used for activities or processes, but notes that the British English convention does not hold in American English.
• Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) indicates that speeded is incorrect, except in the phrasal verb, speed up. Most American usage of speeded conforms to this.
• Sped is about six times more common in American English (COCA) than speeded. Sped is twice as common in UK English (BNC).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:speed.

Derived terms

• speed up
• Godspeed

Translations

Anagrams

• Peeds, deeps, pedes, spede

French

Noun

speed m (plural speeds)

1. speed (amphetamine)

English

Alternative forms

• dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese ? (Dào, literally “the Way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/, /ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Proper noun

tao

1. (Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature, or way to live one's life.

Noun

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.

   Synonym: zen

   the tao of archery

2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

See also

• ananke

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Bikol Central

Verb

taó

1. to give

Butuanon

Noun

tao

1. person; human

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?o?/, [?t??o?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?o
• Syllabification: ta?o

Verb

tao

1. inflection of takoa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (dào).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?o/, [?t??o?]
• Rhymes: -?o
• Syllabification: ta?o

Noun

tao

1. tao

Declension

Anagrams

• oat, ota

French

Noun

tao m (plural taos)

1. (philosophy) Tao

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?o?]
• Hyphenation: tao
• Rhymes: -o?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin ? (dào, “way, path”).

Noun

tao

1. tao

Declension

Derived terms

• taoista
• taoizmus

Etymology 2

Abbreviation from the name of the act on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

Noun

tao

1. Acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó.

Declension

Derived terms

• taózás
• taózik

References

Ilocano

Noun

tao

1. person
2. human

Italian

Alternative forms

• dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese ? (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: tà?o

Noun

tao m (invariable)

1. (philosophy) Tao

Derived terms

• taoismo
• taoista

Japanese

Romanization

tao

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta?uq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to]

Noun

tao

1. act, action
2. preparation

Verb

tao

1. to do
2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

tao

1. Nonstandard spelling of t?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of táo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of t?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tào.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maori

Noun

tao

1. spear

Samoan

Noun

tao

1. spear

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tao (ma class, plural matao)

1. arch

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tauo, tau (obsolete)
• tawo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Tagalog tawo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Thao caw, Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, and Motu tau.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?ta.?o/
• Hyphenation: ta?o

Noun

tao

1. human, human being, person, man
2. one of the faces of a coin

   Synonym: tihaya

3. husband
4. a person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker

   Synonyms: bantay, tanod

Related terms

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ta.??o/

Adjective

taó

1. (archaic) mortal

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (North Central Vietnam) tau

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *so? (“I; me”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]

Pronoun

tao • (?, ?, ????)

1. (impolite, familiar, disrepectful or hostile) I/me

   Antonyms: mày, mi

Yami

Noun

tao

1. person; human