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/kwɪk/
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[kʰw̥ɪk]
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kwɪk
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Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
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I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
He's a quick runner.
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The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
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That was a quick meal.
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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.
The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
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You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
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My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Kullanım- of people or tempers
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She has a very quick temper.
He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
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The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
Alive, living.
Kullanım- arkaik
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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.
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The inmost oratory of my soul, Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead, Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
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- of a foetus
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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.
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
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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.
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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.
Flowing, not stagnant.
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- of water
Burning, flammable, fiery.
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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.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Kullanım- kullanımdan kalkmış
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[…] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,
productive; not "dead" or barren
Kullanım- of a vein of ore
Not cryptic.
Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
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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.
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Quickly, in a quick manner.
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Get rich quick.
Come here, quick!
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If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
Answer quickly.
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Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
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Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
Plants used in making a quickset hedge
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The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
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This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
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O see the fate of him whose guard was lowered!— A single misstep and we leave the quick.
Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
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- with-definite-article
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the quick and the dead
Quitchgrass.
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Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
A fast bowler.
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To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
Kullanım- geçişli
To quicken.
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- şiirsel
- geçişli
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I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
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accomplished rapidly and without delay
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was quick to make friends
his quick reaction prevented an accident
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hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem
a speedy recovery
he has a right to a speedy trial
hurried and brief
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paid a flying visit
took a flying glance at the book
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a quick inspection
a fast visit
moving quickly and lightly
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sleek and agile as a gymnast
as nimble as a deer
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nimble fingers
quick of foot
the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
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a quick mind
a ready wit
performed with little or no delay
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an immediate reply to my letter
a prompt reply
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was quick to respond
a straightaway denial
easily aroused or excited
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a quick temper
a warm temper
İsim
any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
Zarf
with little or no delay
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the rescue squad arrived promptly
come here, quick!