different between wild vs fast

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ld, IPA^(key): /wa?ld/
• Rhymes: -a?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”).

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).

   Antonym: tame

2. From or relating to wild creatures.

4. Unrestrained or uninhibited.

5. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

6. (electrical) Of unregulated and varying frequency.

7. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

8. Furious; very angry.
9. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

10. Enthusiastic.

11. Inaccurate.

12. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

13. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
14. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

    Antonym: tame

15. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.

16. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
    • 2009, Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson, Alberto Moraglio, Genetic Programming: 12th European Conference

      We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

wild (comparative more wild, superlative most wild)

1. Inaccurately; not on target.

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. The undomesticated state of a wild animal

2. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness
   • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

     Thus every good his native wilds impart
     Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
     And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
     Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)

1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
   • 1989, David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours, New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:

     ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
     "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...

   • 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)

     Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

Etymology 2

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. Alternative form of weald

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Dutch wild, from Old Dutch *wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lt/

Adjective

wild (attributive wilde, comparative wilder, superlative wildste)

1. wild

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/
• Hyphenation: wild
• Rhymes: -?lt
• Homophone: wilt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildst)

1. wild

Inflection

Derived terms

• wildebras
• wildplassen
• wildplukken
• wildvreemd

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild

Noun

wild n (uncountable)

1. game (food; animals hunted for meat)
2. wildlife
3. wilderness

Derived terms

• jachtwild
• wildwissel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild

Anagrams

• lidw.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?. Compare Dutch wild, English wild, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lt/

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative am wildesten)

1. wild
2. (obsolete) strange

   Synonym: fremd

Declension

Derived terms

• halb so wild
• wilde Ehe
• wildern
• wildfremd
• Wildheit

Related terms

• Wildente, Wildfang, Wildgans, Wildhengst, Wildlachs, Wildschwein

Further reading

• “wild” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “wild” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “wild” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wild” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian weld

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vilt/

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. wild

Declension

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German wilde, from Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Compare English, Dutch and German wild, West Frisian wyld, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?lt/

Adjective

wild (comparative willer, superlative willst)

1. wild

Declension

Maltese

Alternative forms

• weld

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (walad).

Pronunciation

Noun

wild m (plural ulied)

1. offspring

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African) enPR: fäst, IPA^(key): /f??st/
• Rhymes: -??st
• (UK, US) enPR: f?st, IPA^(key): /fæst/
• Rhymes: -æst

Etymology 1

From Middle English fast, from Old English fæst (“fast, fixed, firm, secure; constant, steadfast; stiff, heavy, dense; obstinate, bound, costive; enclosed, closed, watertight; strong, fortified”), from Proto-Germanic *fastaz, *fastijaz, *fastuz (“fast, firm, secure”); see it for cognates and further etymology.

The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”).

Adjective

fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)

1. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. [from 9th c.]

   Synonyms: firm, immobile, secure, stable, stuck, tight

   Antonym: loose

   Hyponyms: bedfast, chairfast, colorfast, fail-fast, lightfast, shamefast, soothfast, steadfast

2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

   • out-lawes […] lurking in woods and fast places

   Synonyms: fortified, impenetrable

   Antonyms: penetrable, weak

3. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) [from 10th c.]
4. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: quick, rapid, speedy

   1. (nuclear physics, of a neutron) Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).

5. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.

6. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
7. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people). [16th-19th c.]
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, scene 1:

     Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.

   Synonyms: deep, sound

   Antonym: light

8. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: colour-fast

9. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.

10. (dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits. [from 18th c.]
    • 1852, John Swaby, Physiology of the Opera (page 74)

      […] we remember once hearing a fast man suggest that they were evidently "nobs who had overdrawn the badger by driving fast cattle, and going it high" — the exact signification of which words we did not understand […]

    • 1979, Doug Fieger, "Good Girls Don't":

      You're alone with her at last / And you're waiting 'til you think the time is right / Cause you've heard she's pretty fast / And you're hoping that she'll give you some tonight.

12. Ahead of the correct time or schedule. [from 19th c.]

    Synonyms: ahead, (as in “the clock is gaining x minutes per hour/day”) gain

    Antonyms: behind, slow

13. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average. [from 20th c.]

Usage notes

In the context of nuclear reactors or weaponry, fission-spectrum neutrons (neutrons with the spectrum of energies produced by nuclear fission) are frequently referred to as fast neutrons, even though the majority of fission-spectrum neutrons have energies below the 1-million-electron-volt cutoff.

Synonyms

• (occurring or happening within a short time): quick, rapid, speedy, swift
• (capable of moving with great speed): see also Thesaurus:speedy
• (rapidly consents to sexual activity): easy, slutty; see also Thesaurus:promiscuous
• (firmly or securely fixed in place): see also Thesaurus:tight

Antonyms

• (occurring or happening within a short time): slow

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adverb

fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)

1. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound [from 10th c.].
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene 5^[2]:

     Shylock:

     […] Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:

     Fast bind, fast find;

     A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

   Synonyms: firmly, securely, tightly

   Antonym: loosely

2. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly [from 13th c.].

   Synonym: deeply

   Antonym: lightly

3. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near [from 13th c.].

4. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time [from 13th c.].

   Synonyms: quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly

   Antonym: slowly

5. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.

   Synonym: ahead

   Antonym: behind

Translations

Noun

fast (plural fasts)

1. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations

   Synonyms: express, express train, fast train

   Antonyms: local, slow train, stopper

Translations

Interjection

fast

1. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target

   Antonym: loose

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan (verb), from Proto-Germanic *fastijan?, derived from *fastuz, and thereby related to Etymology 1. Cognate with Dutch vasten, German fasten, Old Norse fasta, Gothic ???????????????????????? (fastan), Russian ???? (post). The noun is probably from Old Norse fasta.

Verb

fast (third-person singular simple present fasts, present participle fasting, simple past and past participle fasted)

1. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or medical reasons.

   Muslims fast during Ramadan and Catholics during Lent.

   • Thou didst fast and weep for the child.

Translations

Noun

fast (plural fasts)

1. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.

   Synonym: fasting

2. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

Hyponyms

• dharna (India)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• fast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fast at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• AT&SF, ATFs, ATSF, FTAs, SAFT, TAFs, afts, fats, tafs

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast/, [fasd?]

Adjective

fast

1. firm
2. solid
3. tight
4. fixed
5. permanent
6. regular

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From German fast (“almost, nearly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast/, [fasd?]

Adverb

fast

1. (dated) almost, nearly

   Synonyms: næsten, omtrent

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?st/, [fæ??sd?]

Verb

fast

1. imperative of faste

German

Etymology 1

From Old High German fasto, compare fest. Cognate with English adverb fast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast/
• Homophone: fasst

Adverb

fast

1. almost; nearly

   Synonyms: beinahe, knapp, nahezu

   Antonym: ganz

2. (in a negative clause) hardly

   Synonym: kaum

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?st/

Verb

fast

1. inflection of fasen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/imperative

Further reading

• “fast” in Duden online
• “fast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “fast”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English fæst.

Adverb

fast

1. fast (quickly)

Descendants

• English: fast

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.

Adjective

fast (neuter singular fast, definite singular and plural faste)

1. solid, steady, firm, fixed, permanent

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

fast

1. imperative of faste

References

• “fast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology. Akin to English fast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?st/

Adjective

fast (indefinite singular fast, definite singular and plural faste, comparative fastare, indefinite superlative fastast, definite superlative fastaste)

1. solid, steady, firm, fixed, permanent, stuck

Derived terms

References

• “fast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fast?, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.

Adjective

fast

1. solid, firm

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French faste.

Noun

fast n (uncountable)

1. splendour, pomp

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish faster, from Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fast

1. caught (unable to move freely), captured

2. firm, fastened, unmoving

3. solid (as opposed to liquid)

4. although (short form of fastän)

Declension

Related terms

Adverb

fast

1. fixed, firmly, steadily (synonymous to the adjective)

2. almost, nearly

Conjunction

fast

1. although, even though

Related terms

Anagrams

• fats, saft, staf