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.