Quick/fast/rapid

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"Quick" takes little time or acts immediately: quick thinking, quick reaction, quick succession, quick response.

"Fast" moves at high speed: fast train, fast horse, fast car.

"Rapid" proceeds apace: rapid progress, rapid growth, rapid motion, rapid ascent.
Jeszcze to:

fast train, fast horse, fast car - to są obiekty fizyczne

rapid progress, rapid growth, rapid motion, rapid ascent. - a to są procesy, czynności, rzeczowniki abstrakcyjne
Rapid collocates with these nouns :

Acceleration, access, accumulation, advance, ascent, assessment;

Breathing, build-up, burst;

Change, climb, competition;

Decay, decline, decrease, demise, depletion, deployment, descent, destruction, deterioration, development, disappearance, disintegration, drop;

Emergence, erosion, escalation, establishment, evolution, exit, expansion;

Fall, fire, fluctuation, footstep;

Gain, growth;

Heartbeat;

Identification, improvement, increase, influx, integration;

Loss;

Motion, move, movement;

Onset;

Pace, passage, progress, progression, promotion, pulse;

Rate, recovery, reduction, reform, repair, resolution, response, retreat, return, review, rise;

Shift, spin, spread, stride, subsidence, succession;

Transformation, transit, transition, turnover;

Withdrawal.


Fast:

Acceleration, access;

Bowler, bowling;

Car, computer, current;

Dance, delivery, descent;

Exit,

Film, food, friend;

Gallop, growth;

Horse;

Lane, lap, learner, link;

Modem;

Pace, passage, progress, pulse;

Rate, reaction, reactor, reader, recovery, reflex, relief, return, rhythm, road, route, runner;

Service, speed, stretch, stroke;

Tempo, time, track, traffic, train, trot, turnover, typist;

Walk, worker

Quick:

access , answer , assessment ,

ball , bath , bite , bowler , bowling , brain , break , breakfast , breath , breather , breathing , burst ,

calculation , call , cash , chat , check , count , crossword ,

dash , death , delivery , departure , dinner , dip , divorce , drink ,

embrace , escape , exit , eye ,

fix , flash , flick , follow-up , foot , footstep ,

gasp , glance , glimpse , guide , gulp ,

hug ,

identification , intake , intelligence ,

jab , jerk , jog ,

kill , kiss ,

learner , look , lunch ,

march , motion , move , movement ,

nap , nod , note ,

overview ,

pass , peek , peep , prayer , profit ,

question ,

reaction , read , recovery , reference , reflex , reminder , repair , reply , resolution , response , retort , retreat , return , review , rise , route ,

sale , scan , search , service , shake , shave , shower , sip , sketch , snack , solution , spin , sprint , squeeze , stab , step , stride , strike , stroke , stroll , succession , summary , survey , swig , swim

tap , temper , tempo , thinker , thinking , thrust , time , tip , tour , trip , tug , turn , twist ,

update ,

visit ,

wash , wave , way , wit , word , worker


NB: those aren't complete lists.
ah byłbym zapomniał. Wpisy z oxford collocation dictionary :)

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