Quick
[kwɪk]
Definition
(noun.) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail).
(adj.) easily aroused or excited; 'a quick temper'; 'a warm temper' .
(adj.) accomplished rapidly and without delay; 'was quick to make friends'; 'his quick reaction prevented an accident'; 'hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem'; 'a speedy recovery'; 'he has a right to a speedy trial' .
(adj.) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; 'a quick mind'; 'a ready wit' .
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Definition
(superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
(superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
(superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
(superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
(superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
(superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
(superl.) Pregnant; with child.
(adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
(n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
(n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
(n.) Quitch grass.
(v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Active, nimble, agile, alert, brisk, prompt, ready.[2]. Rapid, swift, speedy, fleet, hasty, expeditious, hurried, flying.[3]. Dexterous, adroit, skilful, expert, apt.[4]. Acute, clever, sharp, shrewd, keen, intelligent, sagacious, discerning.[5]. Hasty, choleric, passionate, testy, irritable, touchy, waspish, petulant, irascible, peppery, snappish.
ad. Quickly.
Editor: Spence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp,shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert,sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible
ANT:Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive
Editor: Martin
Definition
adj. living: lively: speedy: nimble: ready: sensitive: hasty: pregnant: active piercing.—adv. without delay: rapidly: soon.—n. a living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts: a hedge of some growing plant quickset.—adj. Quick′-an′swered (Shak.) quick at giving an answer.—n. Quick′beam the mountain-ash or rowan.—adj. Quick′-conceiv′ing quick at conceiving or understanding.—v.t. Quick′en to make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.—v.i. to become alive: to move with activity.—n. the couch or quitch-grass.—ns. Quick′ener one who or that which reinvigorates; Quick′ening the period in pregnancy when the mother first becomes conscious of the movement of the child—from the sixteenth or seventeenth week onwards.—adj. Quick′-eyed having acute sight.—ns. Quick′-grass=Quitch-grass; Quick′-hedge a hedge of living plants; Quick′lime recently burnt lime caustic and unslaked: carbonate of lime without its carbonic acid.—adv. Quick′ly.—ns. Quick′march (same as Quick′step); Quick′match (see Match); Quick′ness; Quick′sand a movable sandbank in a sea lake &c. any large mass of sand saturated with water often dangerous to travellers: anything treacherous.—adj. Quick′-scent′ed having a keen scent.—n. Quick′set a living plant set to grow for a hedge particularly the hawthorn.—adj. consisting of living plants.—adj. Quick′-sight′ed having quick or sharp sight: quick in discernment.—ns. Quick′-sight′edness sharpness of sight or discernment; Quick′silver the common name for fluid mercury so called from its great mobility and its silvery colour.—v.t. to overlay or to treat with quicksilver.—adj. Quick′silvered.—ns. Quick′silvering the mercury on the back of a mirror; Quick′step a march in quick time: (mus.) a march written in military quick time.—adj. Quick′-tem′pered irascible.—n. Quick′-wa′ter a solution of nitrates of mercury and of gold for water-gilding.—adj. Quick′-wit′ted having ready wit.—ns. Quick′-wit′tedness; Quick′-work the part of a ship under water when laden: the part of the inner upper-works of a ship above the covering board: the short planks worked inside between the ports: spirketting.—Some quick (Spens.) something alive.
Typist: Suzy
Examples
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I'm quick to take this fright, I know, and my head is summ'at light with wearying and watching. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I had always rather a noticing way--not a quick way, oh, no! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and West Point fell in quick succession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If he is quick enough to catch his bird, well and good. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- When she reached the door she turned for a moment to wave a quick farewell. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The whole family were quick, brisk, loud-talking, kind-hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was only when I had joined him there that I heard what had alarmed his quicker senses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As we looked full at one another, I felt my breath come quicker in my strong desire to get something out of him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Her usually quiet breathing had grown quicker with his words. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Bar Comas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker and more intelligent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was lower and quicker than ever! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In my time at Oxford, the men passed round the bottle a little quicker than you young fellows seem to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was time only for the quickest arrangement of mind. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Full of thanks, and full of news, Miss Bates knew not which to give quickest. Jane Austen. Emma.
- That a northerly course would quickest lead me toward the more settled portions of the planet immediately decided the direction that I should steer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each other half an hour, who should brew the best quart of punch and drink it the quickest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hence, the quickest way was to search the tropics until the proper material was found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This, I am well aware, was not the quickest way to take of obeying the directions which I had received. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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