speedometor.html - n.
(pl. -os) colloq. = SPEEDOMETER. [abbr.]

speedometor.html - n.
an instrument on a motor vehicle etc. indicating its speed to the driver. [SPEED + METER(1)]

speedometor.html - {n.} A place where police hide and wait to catch drivers who are going even a little faster than the speed limit. * /Mr. Jones was caught in a speed trap./

speedometor.html - {v.} To go faster than before; also, to make go faster. * /The car speeded up when it reached the country./ * /Push in the throttle to speed up the engine./ Compare: PICK UP(12). Contrast: SLOW DOWN.

speedometor.html - noun
(Music) (Youth Culture) A variety of heavy metal rock music that is very similar to thrash; also known more fully as speed metal. The latest branch on rock's American tree is a phenomenon tagged Speed Metal, the place where HM supposedly mates with hardcore. New Musical Express 14 Feb. 1987, p. 7

speedometor.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 rapidity of movement (with all speed; at full speed).
2 a rate of progress or motion over a distance in time (attains a high speed).
3 a a gear appropriate to a range of speeds of a bicycle. b US or archaic such a gear in a motor vehicle.
4 Photog. a the sensitivity of film to light. b the light-gathering power of a lens. c the duration of an exposure.
5 sl. an amphetamine drug, esp. methamphetamine.
6 archaic success, prosperity (send me good speed).

--v.

(past and past part. sped)
1 intr. go fast (sped down the street).
2 (past and past part. speeded) a intr. (of a motorist etc.) travel at an illegal or dangerous speed. b tr. regulate the speed of (an engine etc.). c tr. cause (an engine etc.) to go at a fixed speed.
3 tr. send fast or on its way (speed an arrow from the bow).
4 intr. & tr. archaic be or make prosperous or successful (how have you sped?; God speed you!).

at speed moving quickly. speed bump (or hump) a transverse ridge in the road to control the speed of vehicles. speed limit the maximum speed at which a road vehicle may legally be driven in a particular area etc. speed merchant colloq. a motorist who enjoys driving fast. speed up move or work at greater speed. speed-up n. an increase in the speed or rate of working.

speeder n. [OE sped, spedan f. Gmc]