Akademik

speed
1. noun /spiːd/
a) the state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity
b) the rate of motion or action, specifically / the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time
Syn: velocity
2. verb /spiːd/
a) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.

he and alle his knyghtes haue assayed it and none can spede.

b) To help someone, to give them fortune.

Aristotle must find out the motion of Euripus; Pliny must needs see Vesuvius; but how sped they? One loseth goods, another his life.


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