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Definition: Quickening |
QuickeningNoun1. The process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain". 2. The stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus. 3. The act of accelerating; increasing the speed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quickening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Descriptive of an ore as its mineral content increases with distance. (references) |
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Synonyms: QuickeningSynonyms: acceleration (n), speedup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agency | Quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quickening |
| English words defined with "quickening": festination ♦ Laving, Livingness ♦ stimulating. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Quickening Flame (1919) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
James Russell Lowell | Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He felt a certain quickening of the pulse as he drew near the den. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A feverish quickening of his pulses followed and a din of meaningless words drove his reasoned thoughts hither and thither confusedly. |
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| "Quickening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Quickening" is used about 72 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.17% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.44% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.39% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "quickening": pulse-quickening. | |
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| 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 |
quickening | 57 |
pregnancy quickening | 13 |
highlander quickening | 7 |
in pregnancy quickening | 7 |
fetal quickening | 5 |
highlander ii the quickening | 5 |
highlander 2 the quickening | 3 |
baby quickening | 3 |
during pregnancy quickening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quickening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 快 (Quicken, quickened, Quickens). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | accélération. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | beschleunigung (acceleration, hastening, pick up, precipitation, speeding up, speedup). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | τάχυνση. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | siettetés (acceleration), serkentés (exhortation, incentive, stimulation), meggyorsulás, meggyorsítás (speed-up), megelevenedés, megelevenítés, megélénkülés, gyorsítás (acceleration, intensification, speed up, speed-up), első magzatmozgás, élénkítés. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 胎動 (foetalmovement, fomenting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいどう (foetalmovement, fomenting, takingalong). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 태동. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickeningquay grãbire (acceleration), care prinde viaţã, accelerat (accelerated, fast, fast train). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Agropyron repens, Elytrigia repens, Triticum repens. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 45 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OutwV kai gegraptai egeneto o prwtoV anqrwpoV adam eiV yuchn zwsan o escatoV adam eiV pneuma zwopoioun |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Factus est primus homo Adam in animam viventem novissimus Adam in spiritum vivificantem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As it is writun, The firste man Adam was maad in to a soule lyuynge, the laste Adam in to a spirit quykenynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | As it is written: the fyrste man Adam was made a livinge soule: and ye last Ada was made a quickeninge sprete. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit. |
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| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 45 |
| Cebuano | Sa ingon niini ang kasulatan nagaingon, "Ang unang tawo nga si Adan nahimong binuhat nga buhi"; apan ang katapusang Adan nahimong espiritu nga maghahatag ug kinabuhi. |
| Croatian | Tako je i pisano: Prvi èovjek, Adam, postade živa duša, posljednji Adam - duh životvorni. |
| Danish | Således er der også skrevet: "Det første Menneske, Adam, blev til en levende Sjæl;"den sidste Adam blev til en levendegørende Ånd. |
| Dutch | Alzo is er ook geschreven: De eerste mens Adam is geworden tot een levende ziel; de laatste Adam tot een levendmakenden Geest. |
| Finnish | Niin on myös kirjoitettu: "Ensimmäisestä ihmisestä, Aadamista, tuli elävä sielu"; viimeisestä Aadamista tuli eläväksitekevä henki. |
| French | C`est pourquoi il est écrit: Le premier homme, Adam, devint une âme vivante. Le dernier Adam est devenu un esprit vivifiant. |
| German | Wie es geschrieben steht: der erste Mensch, Adam, "ward zu einer lebendigen Seele", und der letzte Adam zum Geist, der da lebendig macht. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dalam Alkitab tertulis begini, "Manusia yang pertama, yakni Adam, menjadi makhluk yang hidup," tetapi Adam yang terakhir adalah Roh yang memberi hidup. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Demikian juga ada tersurat: Bahwa manusia yang pertama, yaitu Adam, menjadi nyawa yang hidup. Maka Adam yang akhir itu menjadi roh yang menghidupkan. |
| Italian | il primo uomo, Adamo, divenne un essere vivente, ma l'ultimo Adamo divenne spirito datore di vita. |
| Latvian | Pirmais cilvçks Âdams kïuva dzîva dvçsele, pçdçjais Âdams - atdzîvinâtâjs Gars. |
| Maori | He penei hoki te mea i tuhituhia, Ko te tangata tuatahi, ko Arama, i meinga hei tangata ora; ko te Arama whakamutunga ka waiho hei wairua whakaora. |
| Norwegian | Således er det og skrevet: Det første menneske, Adam, blev til en levende sjel; den siste Adam er blitt til en levendegjørende ånd. |
| Portuguese | Assim também está escrito: O primeiro homem, Adão, tornou-se alma vivente; o último Adão, espírito vivificante. |
| Rumanian | De aceea este scris: ,,Omul dintki Adam a fost fqcut un suflet viu.`` Al doilea Adam a fost fqcut un duh dqtqtor de viayq. |
| Russian | фБЛ Й ОБ ЙУБОП: ЕТЧЩК ЮЕМПЧЕЛ б"БН УФБМ "ХЫЕА ЦЙЧХЭЕА; Б ПУМЕ"ОЙК б"БН ЕУФШ "ХИ ЦЙЧПФЧПТСЭЙК. |
| Shuar | Yus-Papinium Nuní aarmaiti: "Emka aishman ni naari Atan, aents ajas iwiaaku ajasmiayi." Tu aarmaiti. Ukunmanka, yamaram Atanka aintsan, Kristu, wakan asa, Ashí aentsun nekas iwiaaku átinian susamniaiti. |
| Swahili | Maana Maandiko yasema: "Mtu wa kwanza, Adamu, alikuwa kiumbe mwenye uhai;" lakini adamu wa mwisho ni Roho awapaye watu uzima. |
| Swedish | Så är ock skrivet: "Den första människan, Adam, blev en levande varelse med själ." Den siste Adam åter blev en levandegörande ande. |
| Uma | Hewa to te'uki' hi rala Buku Tomoroli': Alata'ala mpajadi' manusia' to lomo' -na, to rahanga' Adam, pai' nawai' -i katuwua'. Aga Kristus ma'ala rahanga' Adam to ka'omea-na. Hi'a to mpowai' -ta katuwua' to lompe' duu' kahae-hae-na. |
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Misspellings | |
"Quickening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quickenings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quickening" (pronounced kwi"kuning) |
| 6 | -i" k u n i ng | sickening, thickening. |
| 5 | -k u n i ng | awakening, beckoning, blackening, darkening, likening, reawakening, reckoning, slackening, weakening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, bargaining, battening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, rationing, reasoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, siphoning, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-k-n-n-q-u" | |
-3 letters: necking, nicking, quicken, quickie, quinine. | |
-4 letters: cinque, cueing, inking, nuking, quince, quinic, quinin, uncini. | |
-5 letters: cuing, eking, ennui, genic, genii, icing, kinin, quick. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Bible Trace 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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