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increase+speed

  • 1 speed up

    past tense, past participle - speeded (-)
    1) (to increase speed: The car speeded up as it left the town.) auka hraða
    2) (to quicken the rate of: We are trying to speed up production.) flÿta, hraða

    English-Icelandic dictionary > speed up

  • 2 accelerate

    [ək'seləreit]
    1) (to increase speed: The driver accelerated to pass the other car.) auka hraðann
    2) (to make (something) happen sooner: Worry accelerated his death.) flÿta fyrir
    •
    - accelerator

    English-Icelandic dictionary > accelerate

  • 3 get up

    1) (to (cause to) get out of bed: I got up at seven o'clock; Get John up at seven o'clock.) fara á fætur
    2) (to stand up.) standa upp, rísa á fætur
    3) (to increase (usually speed).) aukast
    4) (to arrange, organize or prepare (something): We must get up some sort of celebration for him when he leaves.) skipuleggja, undirbúa

    English-Icelandic dictionary > get up

  • 4 put on

    1) (to switch on (a light etc): Put the light on!) kveikja á
    2) (to dress oneself in: Which shoes are you going to put on?) fara í
    3) (to add or increase: The car put on speed; I've put on weight.) bæta við sig, auka
    4) (to present or produce (a play etc): They're putting on `Hamlet' next week.) færa upp
    5) (to provide (eg transport): They always put on extra buses between 8.00 and 9.00 a.m.) bæta við
    6) (to make a false show of; to pretend: She said she felt ill, but she was just putting it on.) þykjast
    7) (to bet (money) on: I've put a pound on that horse to win.) veðja

    English-Icelandic dictionary > put on

  • 5 rate

    [reit] 1. noun
    1) (the number of occasions within a given period of time when something happens or is done: a high (monthly) accident rate in a factory.) tíðni, hlutfall, prósenta
    2) (the number or amount of something (in relation to something else); a ratio: There was a failure rate of one pupil in ten in the exam.) hlutfall, prósenta
    3) (the speed with which something happens or is done: He works at a tremendous rate; the rate of increase/expansion.) hraði
    4) (the level (of pay), cost etc (of or for something): What is the rate of pay for this job?) taxti
    5) ((usually in plural) a tax, especially, in United Kingdom, paid by house-owners etc to help with the running of their town etc.) skattur
    2. verb
    (to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc: I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation.) meta
    - at this
    - at that rate
    - rate of exchange

    English-Icelandic dictionary > rate

  • 6 rev

    [rev]
    past tense, past participle revved - (often rev up) verb
    (to increase the speed of revolution of (a car engine etc): He revved the engine (up); He was revving up in the yard.) auka snúningshraða vélar; þenja, gefa inn

    English-Icelandic dictionary > rev

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  • speed up — verb To accelerate, to increase speed Ant: slow down …   Wiktionary

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  • Speed limits in Australia — range from 10 km/h (5 mph) Shared Zones to 130 km/h (80 mph). Speed limit signage is in km/h since metrication on 1 July 1974. All speed limits (with the sole exception of the South Australian school and roadworks zones which are signposted at 25 …   Wikipedia

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