Quick

ahd-5
  • adjective. Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy.
  • adjective. Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen.
  • adjective. Reacting immediately and sharply.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Occurring, achieved, or acquired in a relatively brief period of time.
  • adjective. Done or occurring immediately: synonym: fast.
  • adjective. Tending to react hastily.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Alive.
  • adjective. Pregnant.
  • noun. Sensitive or raw exposed flesh, as under the fingernails.
  • noun. The most personal and sensitive aspect of the emotions.
  • noun. The living.
  • noun. The vital core; the essence.
  • adverb. Quickly; promptly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Very elastic: as, a quick billiard cushion.
  • In a quick manner; nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily: as, run quick.
  • Soon; in a short time; without delay: as, go and return quick.
  • noun. In mining, an abbreviation of quicksilver.
  • To make alive; quicken; animate.
  • To revive; kindle; quicken.
  • In electroplating, to prepare for the firmer adhesion of the deposited metal by the use of a solution of nitrate of mercury.
  • To become alive; revive.
  • Living; alive; live.
  • Lively; characterized by physical or mental liveliness or sprightliness; prompt; ready; sprightly; nimble; brisk.
  • Prompt to perceive or to respond to impressions; perceptive in a high degree; sensitive; hence, excitable; restless; passionate.
  • Speedy; hasty; swift; rapid; done or occurring in a short time; prompt; immediate: as, a quick return of profits.
  • Hasty; precipitate; irritable; sharp; unceremonious.
  • Pregnant; with child: specifically noting a woman when the motion of the fetus is felt.
  • Active in operation; piercing; sharp; hence, bracing; fresh.
  • Synonyms and Expeditious, rapid, active, alert, agile, hurrying, hurried, fleet, dexterous, adroit. See quickness.
  • Acute, keen.
  • noun. A living being.
  • noun. That which is quick, or living and sensitive: with the definite article: as, cut to the quick.
  • noun. A live fence or hedge formed of some growing plant, usually hawthorn; quickset.
  • noun. The quitch-grass. Also quicks, quitch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay
  • verb. To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
  • adjective. Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
  • adjective. Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
  • adjective. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow.
  • adjective. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious.
  • adjective. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
  • adjective. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready.
  • adjective. Pregnant; with child.
  • adjective. See Quitch grass.
  • adjective. See under Match.
  • adjective. a vein of ore which is productive, not barren.
  • Word Usage
    ""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_!"
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