Direct Cross-Language Association: “quick” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “(rather rare, dated) lively”
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
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.
(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.
(now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
(archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
(archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
(obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
Quickly, in a quick manner.
Answer quickly.
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.
(with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
Quitchgrass.
(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.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.”
— 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 87:
“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.”
— 2023 December 27, Zachary Small, “Video Games Let Them Choose a Role. Their Transgender Identities Flourished.”, in The New York Times:
“The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.”
— 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Sixth Sermon Preached Before King Edward, April 6 1549: