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Definition: Quick |
QuickAdjective1. Accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial". 2. Hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit". 3. Moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it". 4. Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit". 5. Performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial". 6. Easily aroused or excited; "a quick temper"; "a warm temper". Adverb1. With little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!". Noun1. Any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | QUICK |
Literature | Quick Living; hence animated, lively; hence fast, active, brisk (Anglo-Saxon, cwic, living, alive). Our expression, "Look alive," means Be brisk. Quick at meat, quick at work. In French, "Bonne bête s'échauffe en mangeant," or "Hardi gagneur, hardi mangeur." The opposite would certainly be true: A dawdle in one thing is a dawdle in all. The quick and dead. The living and the dead. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Said of a sediment that, when mixed with water, becomes extremely soft and incoherent and is capable of flowing easily under load or by force of gravity; e.g. quick clay or quicksand b. Said of blasting powder that burns or goes off very rapidly. c. See:quicksilver d. Said of an economically valuable or productive mineral deposit, in contrast to a dead ground or area. An ore is said to be quickening as itsmineral content increases. Syn:alive e.g. quick clay or quicksand. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Quick, a word which, by origin, and in early and many surviving uses, meant living, alive. It is common to Germanic languages, confer German keck, lively, Dutch kwik, and Danish kvik; confer also Danish kvaeg, cattle. The original root is seen in Sanskrit jiva; Latin vivus, living, alive; Greek bios, life.In its original sense the chief uses are such as the quick and the dead, of the Apostles' Creed, a quickset hedge, i.e. consisting of slips of living privet, thorn (NB. In Northern Europe, quick-thorn refers to the tree hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), that is commonly used for hedging purposes) etc., the quick, i.e. the tender parts of the flesh under hard skin or particularly under the nail. The phrase quick with child is a conversion of with a quick. i.e. living child.
From the sense of having full vigour, living or lively qualities or movements, the word got its chief current meaning of possessing rapidity or speed of movement, mental or physical. It is thus used in the names of things which are in a constant or easily aroused condition of movement, e.g. quicksand, loose water-logged sand, readily yielding to weight or pressure, and quicksilver, the common name of the metal mercury.
from a 1911 encyclopedia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quick."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
QUICK | English | QUantum encryption In multi-user optical networks by gigahertz Cryptographic Key transmission | Computing |
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Synonyms: QuickSynonyms: agile (adj), fast (adj), flying (adj), immediate (adj), nimble (adj), prompt (adj), ready (adj), speedy (adj), spry (adj), straightaway (adj), warm (adj), promptly (adv), quickly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. |
Instantaneity | Speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
Irascibility | Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ". |
Life | Adjective: living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively. (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty. |
Skill | Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing). |
Transientness | Brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time; (haste); sudden, momentary; (instantaneous). |
Velocity | Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You know for something you've been holding onto for so long, you're pretty quick to let it go. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Quick question: do you know who I am (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) He just dropped in for a quick bite (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Planning a quick getaway (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi) Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Gotta move quick or lode her fast (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) You walked in, you were so quick to judge (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) Jack be nimble, Jack be quick (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo) Told me to acknowledge her quick (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) | |
Clever | Quick Thinking: Offers plausible excuses. (references; author: unknown) A dancer goes quick on her beautiful legs; a duck goes quack on her beautiful eggs. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Come kick six sticks quick. (references; author: unknown) Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest! (references; author: unknown) Quick kiss. Quicker kiss. Quickest kiss. (references; author: unknown) The quack quit asking quick questions. (references; author: unknown) The queen coined quick clipped quips. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Quick on the Trigger (1971) The Adventures of Don Quick (1970) Quick Billy (1970) Kiss Me Quick! (1964) Quick Before It Melts (1964) | |
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 | All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |  | All wood rat species are quick to occupy and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |
 | Some stars in double-star systems have found a quick way to lose weight by dumping their extra ... Credit: NASA. |  | A Panamanian Indian lady dressed in her finery A quick learner - it cost a dollar to take the picture Also selling molas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 67. Pelometer for the rapid sorting of sediments in water. Professor Julien Thoulet used this device on board research ships to rapidly determine the nature of seafloor sediments. It would allow quick classification into a single category such as mud, sandy silt, or muddy sand for entry into a station log. Thoulet used the pelometer described by Bouquet de la Gyre. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Senior Airman John Hill, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., performs a quick, personal damage assessment during the low crawl obstacle of the Fitness Challenge during Defender Challenge 2000 here Oct. 30. Defender Challenge is the annual Air Force-wide compet. |
 | This fast growing climber is a fairly common tender perennial species that produces two inch, pinkish blue flowers in mid to late Summer. They provide quick covers for lattice, trellis, arbor and chain-link fence, and are a favorite food source for butter. Credit: Dot Paul. |  | Dr. Kilmer's The Quick Cure : It Costs Nothing To Try. / J. Ottmann. Lith. Puck Bldg., N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Catapults four F8U "Crusader" jet fighters in quick succession from her bow and waist catapults, during operations in the eastern Pacific, circa 1958. An F4D "Skyray" fighter is partially visible in the foreground. Ship at left is USS Thetis Bay (CVHA-1). Credit: NAVY. |  | K N quick step dedicated to the Know Nothings. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Light_71eh" by Kit Kim Commentary: "Quick shot from office." | "Greyhound Sunset" by Jordan Balagot Commentary: "A quick snap I took at a rest stop traveling via greyhound." |
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 | Very quick supporting melody and repetitive piano melody with environmental sounds. | | Quick shuffle rhythm with very stiff melodic material. |
| Quick safari type excerpt typical of an action adv adventure television show. | | Quick changing harmonies from piano, guitar, and percussion creating a new age style. |
| Fast rhythm with sustained string pads and quick melody. | | Quick safari style excerpt for a television adventure series. |
| A quick piano excerpt stylized in the High Classical era style. | | Quick, uptempo contemporary jazz style with bass, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. |
| A quick duo between an arpeggiated guitar and a melodic guitar. | | Quick double-time rhythm with keyboard glissandi. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. |
Charles Dickens | Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. |
Elbert Hubbard | An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. |
Homer | We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. |
Julius Caesar | Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. |
Ovid | A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Constant frequent meetings of the legislative, and long continuations of their assemblies, without necessary occasion, could not but be burdensome to the people, and must necessarily in time produce more dangerous inconveniencies, and yet the quick turn of affairs might be sometimes such as to need their present help: any delay of their convening might endanger the public; and sometimes too their business might be so great, that the limited time of their sitting might be too short for their work, and rob the public of that benefit which could be had only from their mature deliberation. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She speaks a little too quick. |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | This is behaviour that a bout of amoebic dysentery would be ashamed of. I bet that even the very lowest form of dysentery amoeba shows up to take its girlfriend out for a quick trot around the stomach lining once in a while |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It wears a man out quick. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He moved a thin shrunken brown hand gently in the air in time to his praise and his thin quick eyelids beat often over his sad eyes |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Your reasons are too shallow and too quick. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The cotton field scurried with waking life, the quick flutter of morning birds feeding on the ground, the scamper over the clods of disturbed rabbits |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Promise sure cures and quick solutions. (references) | |
To help avoid dryness, take quick showers or sponge baths. (references) | ||
Do not delay taking your quick relief medicine when you have symptoms. (references) | ||
Business | Quick service and quality are also important factors. (references) | |
Quick owned by the GIB group, remains the market leader in Belgium. (references) | ||
The government expects investments in IT training to yield quick results. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | Quick and accurate reporting by the media led to the arrest in August of 15 persons who had tried to cover up the disaster. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Registration requires an application submitted by at least 10 persons and it is usually a quick and simple process; however, some religious groups have encountered difficulties registering in certain jurisdictions. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | Government procedures are not always transparent, efficient or quick. (references) |
Human Rights | China | Reports of torture increase during periodic "strike hard" campaigns in which police are encouraged to achieve quick results against crime, and such reports increased during the current "strike-hard" campaign, which began in April. (references) |
Minorities | Russia | Although Jewish leaders welcomed the quick reaction of local authorities, no arrests had been made in the case by year's end. (references) |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | The U.S. government has urged Indonesia to take quick action to register and control OD production equipment. (references) |
Trade | Guatemala | The Guatemalan Government has been very quick to respond to requests for approval to utilize OPIC insurance and financing. (references) |
Cape Verde | The CECV's structure is allowing it to offer relatively quick service which is highly beneficial to the development of the private sector. (references) | |
Poland | A transfer can be as quick as one day if it is between affiliated banks or banks on the SWIFT system and if the order is placed early in the day. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | However, quick response is poor in rural areas. (references) |
Ghana | Located in Osu behind the Quick Pik supermarket. (references) | |
Czech Rep | The city also has fine, usually quick, public transit to most points. (references) | |
Women | Brunei | However, when such complaints are brought, the Government generally is quick to investigate allegations of abuse and impose fines and punishment as warranted. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | The independent press, which includes journals that are published by Haratines and southern-based ethnic groups who emphasize issues of importance to these ethnic groups, also is quick to report any incident that comes to its attention in which the rights of former slaves have not been respected. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities. Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a sift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point. Thy judgment, when allowed By the chirurgeon, settles the debate. O useful metal! -- were it not for thee We'd grapple one another's ears alway: But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay." And when the quick have run away like pellets Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets. |
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Dan Rather | The marines' battle cry, their creed, is be quick and be deadly and that is why the corps is expected to be among the first to sweep deep into Iraq. |
John Major | Well, I don't think it will be a quick in and out at all. I mean, Iraq is not a natural democracy and I think the troops that arrive there as liberators may well find themselves staying there for some time as peacekeepers. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Chairman, we've just got about a minute before we take another break, and I've got two quick questions. I hope you can give a quick answer. |
Rush Limbaugh | Just as the author of the book Black Hawk Down theorized, our quick, gutless exit out of there was a signal to terrorists around the world that we could be beaten. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | The currents of our thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I urge quick action on the necessary legislation to allow commercial production at the Elk Hills, California, Naval Petroleum Reserve. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our problems are too complex for simple slogans or for quick solutions. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Because our economic problems are deeply rooted and will not respond to quick political fixes, we must stick to our carefully integrated plan for recovery. |
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| "Quick" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.86% of the time. "Quick" is used about 4,547 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.86% | 4,313 | 2,288 |
| Adverb (general) | 4.9% | 223 | 20,178 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.2% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,547 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "quick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Quick | Last name | 9,000 | 1,303 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "quick". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| En-haddah | N/A | Biblical | Quick sight |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Belgium | N.V. Quick Restaurants S.A. | South Africa | Quick Holdings Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Quick, WV |
Expressions using "quick": ad to the quick ♦ as quick as a flash ♦ as quick as thought ♦ at a quick pace ♦ be a quick study ♦ be quick ♦ be quick on the uptake ♦ calcium quick lime ♦ cut smb. to the quick ♦ double quick ♦ give a quick peck ♦ give a quick sweep ♦ have a quick ear ♦ have a quick look ♦ have a quick temper ♦ he has quick wits ♦ he is quick of temper ♦ hurt to the quick ♦ in quick succession ♦ in quick time ♦ individual quick frozen ♦ individually quick frozen ♦ magnesian quick lime ♦ occulting quick flashing light ♦ pare one's nails to the quick ♦ quick acting ♦ quick as a flash ♦ quick as a thought ♦ quick as flash ♦ quick assets ♦ quick at repartee ♦ quick baked bean casserole ♦ quick bread ♦ quick change gear box ♦ quick change gearing ♦ quick change gears ♦ quick chili bean bake ♦ quick chilli bean bake ♦ quick discharge valve ♦ quick feeder ♦ quick fire ♦ quick fix ♦ quick flashing light ♦ quick freeze ♦ quick frozen food ♦ quick fuse ♦ quick fuze ♦ quick grass ♦ quick hedge ♦ quick in the uptake ♦ quick lime ♦ quick look ♦ quick lunch ♦ quick march ♦ quick march! ♦ quick match ♦ quick meal ♦ quick mind ♦ quick motion ♦ quick of comprehension ♦ quick of eye ♦ quick on the draw ♦ quick on the trigger ♦ quick oven ♦ quick reference ♦ quick reply ♦ quick search procedure ♦ quick set ♦ quick sort ♦ quick start ♦ quick step ♦ quick study ♦ quick success ♦ quick succession ♦ quick sweep ♦ quick temper ♦ quick tempered ♦ quick time ♦ quick to anger person ♦ quick to learn ♦ quick vein ♦ quick vinegar ♦ quick water ♦ quick wit ♦ quick with child ♦ quick wits ♦ quick work ♦ take a quick bite ♦ take a quick look ♦ take a quick look at ♦ the quick ♦ the quick and the dead ♦ to the quick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "quick": quick-access, quick-acting, quick-action, quick-and-dirty, quick-bitten, quick-blow, quick-born, quick-brained, quick-buck, quick-chang actor, quick-change, quick-change artist, quick-changes, quick-changing, quick-cooked, quick-cut, quick-decision, quick-disconnect, quick-donning, quick-donnong oxygen mask, quick-draining, quick-draw, quick-drawing, quick-draws, quick-drying, quick-eared, quick-eyed, quick-fence, Quick-fill, quick-fire, quick-firer, quick-firing, quick-firing gun, quick-fisted, quick-fix, quick-food, quick-footed, quick-footedness, quick-fox, quick-freeze, quick-freezing, quick-froze, quick-frozen, quick-glancing, Quick-grip, quick-growing, quick-healing, quick-input, quick-lime, quick-loading, quick-lunch, Quick-march, quick-marched, quick-maturing, quick-minded, quick-mindedness, quick-motion camera, quick-moving, quick-on-the-uptake, quick-pass, quick-reaction, quick-reference, quick-release, quick-response, quick-retracting, quick-sands, quick-scan, Quick-scented, quick-selling, quick-service, quick-serving, quick-set, quick-setting, quick-sharp, quick-shifting, Quick-sighted, Quick-sightedness, quick-silver, quick-start, quick-step, quick-stepping, quick-steps, quick-stop, quick-tempered, quick-thinking, quick-timber, quick-to-assemble, quick-to-learn, quick-to-make, quick-to-prepare, quick-to-use, quick-wash, Quick-witted, quick-wittedly, Quick-wittedness. | |
Ending with "quick": get-rich-quick, kiss-me-quick, lightning-quick. | |
Containing "quick": double-quick pace. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
aol quick buddy | 3,277 | quick book pro | 232 |
quick buddy | 2,927 | dj quick | 215 |
aim quick buddy | 1,894 | quick snooker | 185 |
quick book | 1,043 | quick shade | 179 |
quick | 919 | aim quick | 177 |
quick and reilly | 815 | quick view plus | 174 |
quick weight loss | 789 | quick cooking | 170 |
quick meal | 712 | quick view | 165 |
quick cash | 640 | mechanism quick release | 165 |
quick quote | 523 | quick trip | 161 |
quick loan | 483 | quick tax | 147 |
quick and easy recipe | 413 | make money quick | 146 |
quick recipe | 374 | payday loan quick | 145 |
quick weight loss diet | 338 | quick inspiration | 143 |
quick time player | 327 | quick diet | 137 |
quick cash loan | 267 | quick divorce | 134 |
get rich quick | 256 | quick silver | 123 |
quick money | 246 | quick quarter | 114 |
quick basic | 243 | quick weight loss center | 113 |
quick claim deed | 235 | quick step | 113 |
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| Language | Translations for "quick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vinnig (fast, quickly, rapid, speedy, swift, swiftly), haastig (fast, hurried, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Albanian | vrik (quickly), shpejt (apace, at full pelt, before long, chop-chop, express, fast, make it snappy, neck and crop, not far off, on the double, quickly, rapidly, soon, speedily, trippingly), i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i ndërprerë (aborted, discontinuous, intermitted, interrupted, suspended, threaded), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i menjëhershëm (immediate, impulsive, instant, instantaneous, momentary, prompt, rapid), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references) | |
Arabic | سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, snappy, speed, speedy, swift), رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), أخذ نيكة سريعة, أحياء, ألقى نظرة سريعة (glance), العراق ما أحاط بالظفر, خفيف (agile, brisk, easy-moving, light, light footed, lively, nimble, sprightly, spry, swift), بسرعة (apace, as soon as possible, fast, hastily, precipitately, presto, quickly, readily, rushed, sharply, slap, speedily, swift), ضرب بسرعة, فوري (immediate, instant, instantaneous, prompt, spontaneous, spot, straight away), حبلي (big, enceinte, gravid, pregnant), حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), لمحة (glance, glimpse, sight), نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, rattle-brained, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), مستعجل (accelerated, instant, pressing, running, rushing, urgent), متسرع (hasty, headlong, overhasty, precipitate, rash), ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty). (various references) | |
Basque | bizi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | схватлив (apprehensive, apt, comprehensive, docile, nimble, prehensile, quick-witted, receptive, teachable), скоро (anon, before long, betimes, by and by, erelong, fresh, one of these days, presently, quickly, recently, shortly, soon, speedily), чувствително място (susceptibilities), остър за ум (fine, incisive, subtle), живо месо, живец (cuticle, scarf-skin), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), бързо (apace, chop-chop, express, fast, hastily, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, lively, promptly, pronto, quickly, snap, speedily, sweepingly, swiftly, trippingly), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references) | |
Catalan | ràpid (fast, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Chinese | 快 (fast, swift). (various references) | |
Czech | rychle (fast, pronto, quickly, speedily), rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed). (various references) | |
Danish | hurtig (fast, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Dutch | spoedig (fast, rapid, soon, speedy, swift), snel (fast, quickly, rapid, speedy, swift, swiftly), haastig (fast, hastily, hurried, hurriedly, in a hurry, rapid, speedy, swift), gezwind (fast, rapid, speedy, swift), gauw (fast, quickly, rapid, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rapida (fast, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skjótur (fast, rapid, speedy, swift), kvikur (fast, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرز (Agile, Nimble, Spry, Swift), چست (Brisk, Nimble), چابک (Adroit, Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Rapid, Speedy, Spry, Swift), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), سریع (Precipitate, Prompt, Rapid, Speedy, Sudden, Swift), زنده (Alive, Fresh, Lively, Vivid), جلد (Case, Copy, Cover, Epidermis, Holster, Jacket, Nimble, Sheath, Sheathe, Shell, Skin, Tome, Volume, Yare). (various references) | |
Finnish | vikkelä (swift), vauhdikas (brisk, vivacious), sukkela (bright, clever, swift), ripeä (alert, brisk, prompt), pikainen (prompt, rapid, speedy), nopea (fast, rapid, speedy, swift), nokkela (clever, ready-minded), kerkeä (prompt, ready), joutuisa (prompt, rapid, speedy). (various references) | |
French | rapide, prompt, agile. (various references) | |
Frisian | fluch (fast, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
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