Definition of Quick

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Definition of Quick

Quick

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.

Pregnant; with child.

In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.

Quitch grass.

To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

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Quick Quotations

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Andy Warhol

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.
Billy Graham

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Quick Translations

quick in Afrikaans is haastig, vinnig
quick in Danish is hurtig
quick in Dutch is snel, spoedig, gezwind, haastig, gauw
quick in Finnish is nopea
quick in French is nerveux, rapide, agile
quick in German is Schnellsortieren, schnell, rasch
quick in Italian is agile, rapido
quick in Latin is velox, citatus, celer
quick in Swedish is rapp i mun, rask, hastig, snar, flink, kvick

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