SPEEDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speeding mean? 

• SPEEDING (noun)
  The noun SPEEDING has 1 sense:

1. changing location rapidly

  Familiarity information: SPEEDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEEDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing location rapidly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hurrying; speed; speeding

Hypernyms ("speeding" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speeding"):

acceleration; quickening; speedup (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)

deceleration (the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed)

scud; scudding (the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale))

Derivation:

speed (travel at an excessive or illegal velocity)

speed (move hurridly)

 Context examples 

It is probably speeding on its way thither at the present instant as fast as steam can take it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The universe will make a course correction, and you will finally be speeding forward in your career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By speeding the discovery process and translation of the best discoveries into clinical interventions, the CII will transform cancer care through more effective and efficient information exchanges among all involved in cancer research.

(Cancer Informatics Infrastructure, NCI Thesaurus)

When we were able to stagger to our feet we saw far off in the deep blue sky one dark spot where the lump of basalt was speeding upon its way.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I have learned in my miserable life, Charles, that there is a power which fashions things for us, though we may strive to thwart it, and that we are in truth driven by an unseen current towards a certain goal, however much we may deceive ourselves into thinking that it is our own sails and oars which are speeding us upon our way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so in ten minutes I had left my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has now shot back up above the plane of the planets and, travelling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second) with respect to the Sun, the object is speeding toward the constellation Pegasus.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

The tiny dust grains were speeding through the Saturn system at over 45,000 mph (72,000 kilometers per hour), fast enough to avoid being trapped inside the solar system by the gravity of the sun and its planets.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

A dull scraping came from beneath, the vessel quivered and shook, at the waist, at the quarter, and behind sounded that grim roaring of the waters, and with a plunge the yellow cog was over the bar and speeding swiftly up the broad and tranquil estuary of the Gironde.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By then, Mercury will be speeding forward—not like last year, when I felt anything you purchased on these bargain days would not live up to your expectations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)