QUICK
\kwˈɪk], \kwˈɪk], \k_w_ˈɪ_k]\
Definitions of QUICK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
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easily aroused or excited; "a quick temper"; "a warm temper"
By Princeton University
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performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
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easily aroused or excited; "a quick temper"; "a warm temper"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
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Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
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Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
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Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
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Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
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In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
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That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
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The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
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To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
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Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.
By Oddity Software
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Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
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Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
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Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
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Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
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Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
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In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
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That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
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The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
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To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
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Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.
By Noah Webster.
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Rapid; swift; as, quick in action; nimble; as, quick on one's feet; alert; ready; as, a quick eye; quick wit; easily excited; hasty; as, a quick temper; sensitive; having life.
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With haste; rapidly.
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The living flesh; as, the quick under the nail of a finger or toe; the feelings; as, she was hurt to the quick; a hedge of growing shrubs.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Pregnant with a child the movement of which is felt. 2. A sensitive part, painful to touch. 3. Eponychium.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Living, moving: lively: speedy: rapid: nimble: ready.
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Without delay: rapidly: soon.
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A living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts.
By Daniel Lyons
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Having life.
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A living person; sensitive flesh; sensitiveness.
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Living; brisk; swift; prompt.
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Rapidly; soon.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Having life.
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Done in a short time; rapid; swift; alert; sprightly.
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Irritable.
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That which has life; any vital or sensitive part.
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Quickly; rapidly.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Living; done with celerity; speedy; characterized by activity or readiness; sprightly; sharp in discerning; sharp.
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Nimbly; with celerity.
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The living flesh; sensible parts; living shrubs or trees.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Done or occurring in a short time; active; alive; living; sprightly; ready; swift; nimble.
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Speedily; without delay; in a short time.
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The living flesh; the living, as "the quick and the dead"; sensitive parts or points; a living plant-applied to the hawthorn.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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adv. Nimbly ; with celerity ; rapidly; with haste; speedily;-- in a short time; without delay; soon ; promptly.
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n. [German] A living animal or plant ; especially, the hawthorn, quickset ;-the part of the body which is sensitive to pain; the living flesh.
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