Rapid

Definition

rapid /'ræpd/ adj (က) ျမန္ဆန္ေသာ။ ႐ုတ္ျခည္း။ rapid growth/ change/ expansion ❍ a rapid rise/ decline in sales ❍ The patient made a rapid recovery. (ခ) ျမန္ေသာ။ အျမန္။ a rapid pulse/ heartbeat ❍ ask several questions in rapid succession. ❏ rapid-fire adj တရစပ္ေမးေသာ၊ အမိန္႔ေပးေသာ စသည္။ ❏ rapidity /rǝ'pdǝti/ n [U] လ်င္ျမန္ေသာအဟုန္။ The disease is spreading with alarming rapidity. ❏ rapidly adv အျမန္။ တစ္ဟုန္ထိုး။ a rapidly growing economy ❍ The work is progressing rapidly. ❏ rapids n [pl] ေရေမာ္။ shoot the rapids (ie travel quickly along them in a boat). ❏ rapid transit n [U] ( US ) ေျမေအာက္ရထားစေသာ အမ်ားသံုး အျမန္သယ္ယူ ပို႔ေဆာင္မႈစနစ္။

Examples

1. We are seeing a rapid growth in the use of the Internet.
2. The rapid movement of troops into the area
3. The disease spread with amazing rapidity.
4. Business failures have risen rapidly in recent months.
5. A rapidly expanding human population