quick
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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cricket
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hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively.
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek (“lively, quick”), German keck (“sassy, cheeky”), Danish kvik (“lively, quick-witted, quick”), kvæg (“cattle”), Faroese kvikur (“quick”), Icelandic kvikur (“lively, quick”), Norn kvikk, hwikk (“living, swarming, teeming”), Norwegian kvikk (“quick, lively, quick-witted”), Swedish kvick (“quick, witty”), and also (from Indo-European) with Greek βίος (víos, “life”), Latin vivus (“alive”), Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój, “alive, lively, quick”), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“to feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “alive”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
Inflected forms:
form: quicker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more quick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: quickest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most quick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: kwik
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: quicker
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: quickest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: kwik
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: quicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kwik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: quicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quicked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kwik
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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Senses:
gloss: Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
pos: adj
examples: That was a quick meal.
Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.
gloss: Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
pos: adj
examples: You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
gloss: Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
pos: adj
examples: My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
gloss: Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Alive, living.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
gloss: Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: Flowing, not stagnant.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Burning, flammable, fiery.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,
gloss: productive; not "dead" or barren
pos: adj
gloss: Not cryptic.
pos: adj
gloss: Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Quickly, in a quick manner.
pos: adv
examples: Get rich quick.
Come here, quick!
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
gloss: Answer quickly.
pos: adv
examples: Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
gloss: Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
pos: noun
gloss: Plants used in making a quickset hedge
pos: noun
examples: The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
gloss: The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
with-definite-article
examples: the quick and the dead
gloss: Quitchgrass.
pos: noun
examples: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet,
Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
gloss: A fast bowler.
pos: noun
gloss: To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To quicken.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
poetic
transitive
examples: I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
Synonyms: speedy
rapid
swift
momentary
short-lived
droll
keen
intelligent
live
vital
gravid
with child
fluent
fluminous
Antonyms: slow
dead
Derived words: a quick drop and a sudden stop
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double-quick
get-rich-quick
in quick sticks
in quick succession
kill-me-quick
kiss-me-quick
lightning-quick
make quick work of
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quick as a flash
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quick-fire
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quick-freeze
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quick fuck
quick-handed
quick-handedness
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quick-hearted
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quickish
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quick light
quicklike
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quick link
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quickly
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quick off the mark
quick on his feet
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quicksand
quicksave
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quick shifter
quickshot
quick-sighted
quicksighted
quicksilver
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quicksort
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quickstep
quick study
quick-thinking
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quick time event
quick-tongued
quick vinegar
quick water
quickwater
quick-witted
quick-wittedly
quick-wittedness
quickwork
quick-write
quicky
real quick
squid
superquick
Tennessee quick step
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ultraquick
unquick
right quick
cut to the quick
to the quick
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