rapidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæpɪd/
• 韻: -æpɪd

形容詞

rapid (comparative more rapid または rapider, superlative most rapid または rapidest)

1. Very swift or quick.

   a rapid stream

   rapid growth

   rapid improvement

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

2. Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
3. Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
4. (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
5. (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.

副詞

rapid (comparative more rapid, superlative most rapid)

1. (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.

名詞

rapid (複数形 rapids)

1. (often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
2. (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
3. (chess) Short for rapid chess.
   • 2010, Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess, page 41:

     In these rapid games we had just twenty-five minutes each to make all our moves, a far cry from traditional chess, where games can last up to seven hours.

   • 2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2:

     In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

   • 2022 September 2, Nitish Pahwa, Magnus Carlsen (quoted), “The World’s Greatest Chess Player Cannot Wait to Battle His Young, Rising Rivals”, in Slate‎^[2]:

     I haven’t played against Wesley So—I’ve played him a bunch online in rapid games, but not in classical rounds.

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アナグラム

• Pardi, adrip, pardi, parid