Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

speed-up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English

Syllables: speed-up
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of speedup.

Example Sentences

"King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...]."
"By comparison with steam, no big acceleration of the expresses proved possible between Leeds and Manchester and the speed-ups that have been secured owe a great deal to the excision of intermediate stops."

Etymology

Deverbal from speed up.

Inflected Forms

speed-ups (plural)

Questions

What does speed-up mean?: Alternative spelling of speedup.
Where does speed-up come from?: Deverbal from speed up.

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