rapidly
part of speech
adverb (from the adjective «rapid»)
meaning for a pupil
1) Very quickly; at a great speed. tree →
2) Happening in a short time (the town grew rapidly). tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in science (water boils rapidly, a population grows rapidly), geography (rapidly flowing rivers), safety (fire spreads rapidly) and stories (her heart beat rapidly). Phrases: «grow rapidly», «rapidly increasing», «move rapidly».
examples
- The fire spread rapidly through the dry grass. tree →
- The puppy is growing rapidly. tree →
- Her heart beat rapidly before the race. tree →
- The water level rose rapidly after the storm. tree →
- Prices rose rapidly last month. tree →
- He rapidly ate his lunch and ran out to play. tree →
- Bacteria can multiply rapidly in warm food. tree →
- “Let it be so,” she replied, and she dressed rapidly. tree →
note
Same as «quickly» but more formal. Adjective «rapid»; noun «rapids» (fast, rough part of a river). In maths and science, «increases rapidly» means a large change in a short time — a steep line on a graph.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rapidly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.