hurry (noun)

  • 31room — noun 1 in a house/building ADJECTIVE ▪ big, cavernous, enormous, high, high ceilinged, huge, large, spacious, vast ▪ …

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  • 32discomposure — noun The state of being discomposed. And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every days employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal… …

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  • 33haste — noun (U) 1 great speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time: I soon regretted my haste. | in your haste to do sth: In his haste to leave he forgot his briefcase. 2 in haste quickly or in a hurry: They left in haste,… …

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  • 34quickie — noun (C) informal 1 something done or made quickly and easily: This recipe is a favourite quickie for when I m in a hurry. 2 humorous a sexual act done in a hurry quickie adjective: a quickie divorce …

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  • 35present tense — noun a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking • Syn: ↑present • Derivationally related forms: ↑present (for: ↑present) • Hypernyms: ↑tense …

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  • 36instructions — noun a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑instruction manual, ↑book of instructions, ↑operating instructions • Hypernyms: ↑manual * * * When you make a …

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  • 37unhurriedness — noun a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry • Syn: ↑slowness, ↑deliberation, ↑deliberateness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unhurried, ↑deliberate (for: ↑deliberateness), ↑ …

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  • 38long green — noun slang : paper money : cash the boy will have plenty of the long green in a couple of years Raymond Chandler * * * Slang. paper money; cash. [1890 95, Amer.] * * * long green, U.S. Slan …

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  • 39empressement — noun Etymology: French, from (s )empresser to hurry, from en + presser to press Date: 1709 demonstrative warmth or cordiality …

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  • 40quickie — noun Usage: often attributive Date: circa 1926 something done or made in a hurry: as a. a quickly and usually cheaply produced work (as a motion picture or book) b. a hastily performed act of sexual intercourse …

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