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Translation for 'fast' from English to French

fast

vite {adv}

rapide {adj}

précipité {adj}

à vive allure {adv}

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to fast

jeûnerméd.relig.

faire maigrecuis.

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fast food [attr.]

de fast-food {adj}cuis.

fast-acting

à effet rapide {adj} [médicament, substance]méd.pharm.

fast-drying

à séchage rapide {adj}

fast-flowing

rapide {adj} [rivière, eau]hydro.

lightning-fast

fulgurant {adj}

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to fast-forward (sth.)

faire avancer (qc.) (rapidement)

to make sth. fast

amarrer qc. [navire]naut.

to make sth. fast [secure]

assujettir qc. [fixer]

to run fast

courir vite [ponctuellement]

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fast break [basketball]

contre-attaque {f}sport

fast day

jour {m} maigre

jour {m} de jeûne

fast fashion

fast fashion {m}comm.vêt.

fast food

fast-food {m}cuis.

fast forward

avance {f} rapide

fast living

débauche {f}

fast rewind

rembobinage {m} rapide

fast-fashion

fast fashion {m}comm.vêt.

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hard and fast

absolu {adj} [règle]

Not so fast!

Pas si vite !

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to be failing fast

décliner à vue d'œil [personne]méd.

to be fast asleep

ronfler [fam.]

to be fast disappearing

être en voie de disparition

to get nowhere fast [idiom]

piétiner

to hold fast onto sth.

s'arrimer à qc.

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fast food chain

chaîne {f} de fast-foodscomm.cuis.

fast food restaurant

restaurant {m} rapidecomm.cuis.

fast Fourier Transform <FFT>

transformation {f} de Fourier rapidemath.

fast heart beat

tachycardie {f}anat.méd.

fast-drying paint

vernis {m} séchage rapide

fast-flowing river

fleuve {m} au cours rapidehydro.

fast-food chain

chaîne {f} de fast-foodscomm.cuis.

fast-food industry

restauration {f} rapidecuis.

fast-track ticket

billet {m} coupe-filetransp.

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as fast as possible

le plus vite possible {adv}

aussi vite que possible {adv}

aussi rapidement que possible {adv}

Bad news travels fast. [idiom]

Les mauvaises nouvelles circulent vite. [loc.]

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to be a fast runner

être rapide à la course

courir vite [en général]

to be going quite fast

aller bon train [voiture]auto

to go on a fast

faire maigrecuis.

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fast-moving consumer products

produits {m.pl} de grande consommationécon.

Feast of Fast-Breaking [ʿĪd al-Fiṭr ]

Aïd al-Fitr {m} [Aïd el-Fitr]relig.

liquid metal fast reactor <LMFR>

réacteur {m} rapide à métal liquidenucl.

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as fast as one can

le plus vite possible {adv}

My watch is two minutes fast.

Ma montre avance de deux minutes.

That car's going very fast!

Cette voiture roule très vite !auto

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to go too far too fast

brûler les étapes

to play fast and loose with sth. [idiom]

traiter qc. par-dessus la jambe [loc.]

to pull a fast one on sb. [coll.] [idiom]

rouler qn. dans la farine [fam.] [loc.]

to run away as fast as one can

s'enfuir à toutes jambes [loc.]

• fast fashion {m} = fast fashion
• fast fashion {m} = fast-fashion
• fast-food {m} = fast food

• The United States has a large fast food industry. Some fast food chains in the United States include McDonald’s and Burger King.
• A break-fast follows each of the major Jewish fast days of Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, as well as the four minor fast days of Fast of Gedalia, Tenth of Tevet, Fast of Esther, and Seventeenth of Tammuz.
• A fast reactor uses no moderator, but relies on fission produced by unmoderated fast neutrons to sustain the chain reaction.
• The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, created in 1995, is a subset of the Fast 500 and represents an inner circle of winners.
• The fast version is actually fast enough to decode a movie in real-time.

• According to Gauze's bassist, Shin, their initial goal was to play as fast as possible. They attempted to give the impression of playing fast without actually playing fast.
• The movements are in the order slow-fast-slow as opposed to the fast-slow-fast of the traditional sonata.
• FASTA is pronounced "fast A", and stands for "FAST-All", because it works with any alphabet, an extension of the original "FAST-P" (protein) and "FAST-N" (nucleotide) alignment tools.
• The fast Fourier transform can be used to do fast convolution of count sketches.
• The Fast Breeder Reactor-600 (FBR-600) or Indian Fast Breeder Reactor (IFBR) or Commercial Fast Breeder Reactor (CFBR) is a 600-MWe fast breeder nuclear reactor design presently being designed as part of India's three-stage nuclear power programme to commercialise the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor built at Kalpakkam.

• The four parts are in contrasting tempo, slow–fast–slow–fast.
• The players define how fast Kubi is moving by pressing the control pad and the buttons at the same time. Depending on how fast they are pressed Kubi moves fast or slow.
• Fast track events held during preliminary round and the winners of Fast Track events are automatically qualified to enter the semifinal round.
• A fast stagecoach named "Tally-ho" plied the [...] between London and Birmingham from 1823. Other fast coaches began to use the same name and it became a common description of a fast coach.
• Other pacemen surrounding that quartet included *Patrick Patterson (fast), *Colin Croft (fast) & *Sylvester Clarke (fast).