Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word QUICK
QUICK
Definitions of QUICK
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- Quickly, in a quick manner.
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Quitchgrass.
- Answer quickly.
- (archaic) Alive, living.
- (now, rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
- (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
- A surname.
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
- (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
- (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
- (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- (crosswording) Not cryptic.
- (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living#Noun.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using QUICK in a Sentence
- Most English-speaking countries call crunchy cookies "biscuits", except for the United States and Canada, where "biscuit" refers to a type of quick bread.
- A double-barreled shotgun, also known as a double shotgun, is a break-action shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two single shots that can be fired simultaneously or sequentially in quick succession.
- The first important human improvements were the Roman roads linking major settlements and providing quick passage for marching armies.
- The most basic eating rule in the Torah is that blood is not to be consumed; therefore, as a step to being kosher, mammals and birds must be slaughtered according to a process known as , in which a certified ritual slaughterer, called a shochet, severs the trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries, and jugular veins in a single, quick cut using an ultra-sharp instrument called a chalaf; doing so causes rapid and massive blood loss.
- A splay tree is a binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again.
- Many puzzle games involve a real-time element and require quick thinking, such as Tetris (1985) and Lemmings (1991).
- Rome aims for a quick end to hostilities in the First Punic War and decides to invade the Carthaginian colonies in Northern Africa to force the enemy to accept terms.
- During the 1940 invasion, the quick surrender by Leopold III of Belgium to German forces drove a wedge between the King and his people.
- In computer networking and telecommunications, route flapping occurs when a router alternately advertises a destination network via one route then another, or as unavailable and then available again, in quick sequence.
- Many members of the family have a body protected with shiny cycloid (very smooth and uniform) scales, a single dorsal fin, and a fusiform body for quick, evasive swimming and pursuit of prey composed of small planktonic animals.
- One suggestion is that it is from "A-Ban" meaning "from the heights" due to its comparatively quick descent from hills to the sea.
- It was not until the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) that the wok reached its modern shape and allowed quick cooking in hot oil.
- It is intended to be used as a training weapon, since practicing with it enables the development of quick hand movements and improves posture.
- In Western and Northern Norway, with difficult terrain, obstacling fjords and lack of rail transport, regional airline travel provides quick travel within the region or to the capital.
- The mathematics of a cyclic redundancy check, used to provide a quick check against transmission errors, are closely related to those of an LFSR.
- It would only be two months following his birth that he, in accordance to Napoleon I's dynastic naming policy, would be bestowed the name of Charles-Louis Napoleon, however, shortly after, Charles was very quick to be removed from his name.
- The BNC connector (initialism of "Bayonet Neill–Concelman") is a miniature quick connect/disconnect radio frequency connector used for coaxial cable.
- However, quick action by the firefighters on the scene saved the county records secured in the vault.
- The player explores an open world, fighting opponents in brawler battles and encountering quick time events.
- The structure of the series stayed constant throughout the years: a headline, a few quick stories, a pre-recorded video skit, an interview with a personality, then one last story.
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