quick
IPA: kwˈɪk
noun
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Quitchgrass.
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
adjective
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- (archaic) Alive, living.
- (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
- (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
- (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
- (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
adverb
- Quickly, in a quick manner.
- Answer quickly.
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Examples of "quick" in Sentences
- They provide quick refreshment.
- He replied with a quick response.
- I appreciate the quick turnaround.
- Celerity is like moving quick and fast.
- She was temperamental and quick to fight.
- In the interstices, quick sand was poured.
- Thanks for the quick and courteous response.
- The changeover time of this machine is quick.
- The pledge was supposed to be quick and to the point.
- Bozek immediately took a quick backhanded shot toward the net.
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