Sekirov Dictionary

quick

/kwɪk/

adjective 14
noun 6
adverb 2
verb 2
forms 7
phrases 15

adjective14

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moving fast, or able to move fast
- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- He's a quick runner.
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Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- That was a quick meal.
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Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
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Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
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Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- She has a very quick temper.
- He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
productive; not "dead" or barren
Not cryptic.
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(no longer used) 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: — 1611
(no longer used) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
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(no longer used) 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 — 1595
(no longer used) Flowing, not stagnant.
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(no longer used) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and sharpens the stomacke, — 1607
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(no longer used) 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. — 1922

noun6

Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
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The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick. — 1550
A fast bowler.
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Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The works […] are curiously hedged with quick. — 1641
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Quitchgrass.
- Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks — 1850
(no longer used) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).

adverb2

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Quickly, in a quick manner.
- Get rich quick.
- Come here, quick!
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Answer quickly.
- Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'? — 2006

verb2

To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
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(literary, no longer used) To quicken.
- I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey. — 1917

forms

quicked · quicking · quicks · more quick · quicker · most quick · quickest

Phrases with quick

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