quick

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so

   Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

   • I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
   • He's a quick runner.
   • The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.
2. 2

   Occurring in a short time

   Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

   • That was a quick meal.
3. 3

   Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

   • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
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   1. 4

      Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

      • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
   2. 5

      Easily aroused to anger

      Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

      • She has a very quick temper.
      • He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
      • The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
   3. 6

      Alive, living.

      • I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
      • Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
      • The inmost oratory of my soul, Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead, Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
   4. 7

      At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

   5. 8

      Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt

      Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

      • she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
      • Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.
      • When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.
   6. 9

      Flowing, not stagnant.

   7. 10

      Burning, flammable, fiery.

      • And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.
   8. 11

      Fresh

      Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

      • […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,
   9. 12

      productive

      productive; not "dead" or barren

   10. 13

       Not cryptic.

   11. 14

       Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery…

       Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.

       • Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.
   12. 15

       Quickly, in a quick manner.

       • Get rich quick.
       • Come here, quick!
       • If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
   13. 16

       Answer quickly.

       • Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
   14. 17

       Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

   15. 18

       Plants used in making a quickset hedge

       • The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
   16. 19

       The life

       The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

       • This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
       • How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
       • O see the fate of him whose guard was lowered!— A single misstep and we leave the quick.
   17. 20

       Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).

       • the quick and the dead
   18. 21

       Quitchgrass.

       • Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
   19. 22

       A fast bowler.

   20. 23

       To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of…

       To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

   21. 24

       To quicken.

       • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
   22. 25

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• synonymspeedy
• synonymrapid
• synonymswift
• synonymmomentary
• synonymshort-lived
• synonymephemeral
• synonymdroll
• synonymkeen
• synonymwitty
• synonymintelligent
• synonymlive
• synonymvital
• antonymslowantonym(s) of “moving with speed”
• antonymdeadantonym(s) of “alive”