speeding Definition

speed
noun

1. Rate of movement or action, especially distance travelled per unit of time.

Thesaurus: acceleration, tempo, velocity.
2. Quickness; rapidity.

Example: with speed
Thesaurus: haste, hurry, rapidity, alacrity, promptness, velocity; Antonym: slowness, tardiness.
3. A gear setting on a vehicle.

Example: five-speed gearbox
4. A photographic film's sensitivity to light.
5. drug-taking slang
An amphetamine.

verb, intr

sped, speeding
1. To move quickly.

Thesaurus: hasten, quicken, hurry, rush, hurtle, race, sprint; Antonym: delay.
speeded, speeding
2. To drive at a speed higher than the legal limit.

Derivative: speeder

Idiom: at speed

Quickly.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon sped.

Phrasal Verb: speed up or speed something up

To increase in speed or make it increase in speed.

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speeding
noun

1. An act, instance or the process of going fast.
2. An act, instance or the process of going faster than the designated speed limit.

adj

1. Moving, acting, etc fast.

Example: a speeding car

Idiom: be done for speeding (get done for speeding)

colloq
To be caught, charged and fined for exceeding the speed limit in a vehicle.