Meaning

1 senses

  1. Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.

Examples

723 sentences

  1. The driver maintained a high speed.

    Водій підтримував високу швидкість. — aandrusiak

    deDer Fahrer behielt eine hohe Geschwindigkeit bei. — kriskelvin

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  2. Don't go above the speed limit.

    Не перевищуй швидкість. — triantafillou

    ruНе превышай скорость. — al_ex_an_der

    deNicht die Höchstgeschwindigkeit überschreiten! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Don't go over the speed limit.

    Не перевищуй швидкість. — triantafillou

    ruНе превышайте скорость. — odexed

    deNicht die Höchstgeschwindigkeit überschreiten! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. You should drive at a safe speed.

    Ви мусите вести машину із безпечною швидкістю. — deniko

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  5. There's no speed limit.

    Обмеження швидкості немає. — deniko

    ruОграничения по скорости нет. — urusu_tom

    deEs gibt keine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English s

From Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”).

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Collocations

11 patterns
  • the speed limit
  • speed limit
  • over the speed
  • speed limit is
  • speed things up
  • a speeding ticket
  • speeding ticket
  • to speed things
  • got a speeding
  • high speed
  • speed things

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
speculatorspeechA1speechlessspeedboatspeederB2speedily

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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