Entertainment / Basketball / Fast Break: Also called the run-and-shoot or run-and-gun offense, it begins with a defensive rebound by a player who immediately sends an outlet pass toward midcourt to his waiting teammates; these teammates can sprint to their basket and quickly shoot before enough opponents catch up to stop them.
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Break Verb Synonyms: break apart or up or asunder, fracture, rupture, break into bits, come apart, shatter, shiver, crack, crash, splinter, fragment, split, burst, explode, bust
Break Noun Synonyms: fracture, split, separation, rupture, breach, rift, schism
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Fast Adverb Synonyms: closely, close to, immediately, near, (close) on, right
Fast Adjective Synonyms: loose, profligate, wild, extravagant, dissipated, intemperate, irresponsible, sybaritic, self-indulgent, dissolute, unrestrained, indecorous, rakish, licentious, promiscuous, immoral, wanton, lecherous, lustful
Fast Verb Synonyms: quick, swift, fleet, speedy, brisk, brief, hurried, hasty, high-speed, accelerated, expeditious, rapid, express
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Entertainment / Ice Hockey / Breakaway: A fast break in which an attacker with the puck skates in alone on the goalie, having gotten past or clear of the defensemen, trapping the opponents behind the play. MORE
Entertainment / Bowling / Fast Lanes: This has two different and opposite meanings depending on the part of the country you reside. In some parts, a fast lane is one that is very oily (as the ball travels fast down the lane); in other are MORE
Entertainment / Photography / Fast Lens: Lens with a wide maximum aperture (low f number). MORE
Business / Finance / Fast Market: U.S. accounting standard that requires U.S. firms to translate their foreign affiliates' accounts by the temporal method; that is reporting gains and losses from currency fluctuations in current incom MORE
Technology / Radar / Fast Time Constant (FTC): With ftc in operation, only the leading edge of an echo of a long-time duration is displayed on the radarscope. Ftc tends to reduce saturation of the scope by clutter. Also called anti-clutter or diff MORE
Technology / Radar / Fast Speed Tracking: Track both the strongest and the next faster vehicle at the same time, both in the moving and stationary mode of operation. For example: track the sports car passing the 18-wheeler. Most of decatur po MORE