Definitions for speeding

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speeding speed·ing

Spelling: [spee-ding]

IPA: /ˈspi dɪŋ/

Speeding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in speeding (deeginps).

Definitions for speeding

noun

1. the act or practice of exceeding the speed limit:
2. rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
3. relative rapidity in moving, going, etc.; rate of motion or progress:
4. full, maximum, or optimum rate of motion:
5. Automotive. a transmission gear ratio.
6. Photography. Also called film speed. the sensitivity of a film or paper to light, measured by an ASA or DIN index, which assigns low numbers to slow film and higher numbers to faster film. Also called shutter speed. the length of time a shutter is opened to expose film. the largest opening at which a lens can be used.
7. Slang. a stimulating drug, as caffeine, ephedrine, or especially methamphetamine or amphetamine.
8. Informal. a person or thing that is compatible with or typical of one's ability, personality, desires, etc.:
9. Archaic. success or prosperity.

Idioms

1. at full / top speed, at the greatest speed possible: to the maximum of one's capabilities; with great rapidity:
2. up to speed, operating at full or optimum speed. functioning or producing at an expected, acceptable, or competitive level; up to par:

verb (used with object)

1. to promote the success of (an affair, undertaking, etc.); further, forward, or expedite.
2. to direct (the steps, course, way, etc.) with speed.
3. to increase the rate of speed of (usually followed by up):
4. to bring to a particular speed, as a machine.
5. to cause to move, go, or proceed with speed.
6. to expedite the going of:
7. Archaic. to cause to succeed or prosper.

verb (used without object)

1. to move, go, pass, or proceed with speed or rapidity.
2. to drive a vehicle at a rate that exceeds the legally established maximum:
3. to increase the rate of speed or progress (usually followed by up).
4. to get on or fare in a specified or particular manner.
5. Archaic. to succeed or prosper.

Origin of speeding

1250-1300, for earlier sense “the condition of prospering”; 1905-10 for current sense; Middle English; see speed, -ing¹

Examples for speeding

We caught a rope ladder and scrambled up, and at once we felt her speeding on.

What concerned him now was this mystery of the speeding cyclists.

Now, when I'm arrested for speeding, I'm not in the least flustered—oh, not a little bit!

Maybe he had been at a card game—wherever he was, it was late and he was speeding in the rain.

In 2012, he “punched her in the neck and dragged her alongside a speeding car with their two children in the vehicle.”

Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

There was a slight jar as of something landing on the speeding conveyor.

He said his son was confused why he was being pulled over—other cars had been speeding by him—before hanging up the phone.

The second stop for speeding happened in another state a year later.

There was a clatter and rattle of speeding hoofs, which rapidly died out.