quick

IPA: kwˈɪk

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.

(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.

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

Examples of "quick" in Sentences

McPhee praised what he called the quick response by local and campus police.
Freezing assets here and going in quick is very important and is the only way to help the victims.
Despite the extra work, Tamale is happy to have the tests, which he describes as "quick and easy" to use.
To further cater to its target customer—a time-starved, young mother—the chain added what it calls "quick change" areas.
"What'll the _next_ one be!" flashed into my mind, and I burst out eagerly, "Oh, Phil, call somebody -- go for the doctor -- quick, quick, oh, do be _quick_!
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is expected to lead opposition to what he called a "quick, cheap settlement" of the 50-state investigation into foreclosure practices.
I. ii.113 (118,9) Oh, when we bring forth weeds,/When our quick winds lie still] The sense is, that man, not agitated by censure, like soil not ventilated by _quick winds_, produces more evil than good.
The term quick risotto is actually something of a misnomer, because to make a risotto you have to bring water or stock to a boil, sauté the onions and the rice, and then there's the time it takes the rice to cook, about 15 minutes.