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Definition: Quickset |
QuicksetAdjective1. Grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground; "a quickset hawthorn hedge". Noun1. Cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines: "a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quickset" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quickset is living hawthorn set in a hedge, instead of dead wood, hurdles, and palings. (See Quick .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: QuicksetSynonym: quickset(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inclosure | Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Expressions using "quickset": quickset hedge ♦ quickset ink. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
quickset | 27 |
charcoal gas grill quickset thermos | 13 |
broil char quickset | 12 |
broil char charcoal gas grill quickset | 9 |
charbroil quickset | 6 |
quickset lock | 6 |
grill quickset thermos | 5 |
thermos quickset | 5 |
pool quickset | 4 |
quickset tripod | 3 |
broil char grill quickset | 2 |
charbroil grill quickset | 2 |
30,000 broil btu char gas grill quickset | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quickset"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gardh me bime (quick-fence), bimë e mbjellë për gardh. (various references) | |
Arabic | الزعرور البر ونحوه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | растения за жив плет, жив плет (hedge, quick hedge), пръчки за жив плет. (various references) | |
Czech | živý plot (green fence, hedge, hedgerow). (various references) | |
Danish | quickset farve (quick-set, quickset ink), quickset (quick-set, quickset ink), byggepladsnivellerinstrument (dumpy level, quickset level). (various references) | |
Dutch | waterpasinstrument voor de bouw (dumpy level, quickset level), sneldrogende verf (quick-set, quickset ink). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakennusvaaituskoje (dumpy level, quickset level), pika-asettuva väri (quick-set, quickset ink), nopeasti kuivuva painoväri (quick-set, quickset ink). (various references) | |
French | haie vive. (various references) | |
German | Quick-set Farbe (quick-set, quickset ink), weißdornhecke (quickset hedge), hecke (barrier, covey, fence, hedge, hedgerow, quickset hedge), Baunivellier (dumpy level, quickset level). (various references) | |
Greek | φυτευτόσ (planted), θάμνοσ φράκτη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | galagonya (haw, hawthorn, may, whitethorn). (various references) | |
Italian | di piante vive. (various references) | |
Manx | slat aahoiee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icksetquay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cerca viva (haw, hedge). (various references) | |
Russian | черенок (graft, haft, helve, shank, slip, stem), живая изгородь (green fence, quick-fence), быстро образованный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | živa ograda. (various references) | |
Spanish | vivo (active, alive, animated, bright, facile, gay, hot, live, lively, living, quick, quicksilver, realist, realistic, rich, rousing, short, smart, sprightly, vital, vivid), seto vivo (hedge, quick hedge), plantón (seedling), espino blanco (hawthorn, may-bush, white thorn). (various references) | |
Swedish | häckplantor. (various references) | |
Turkish | akdiken (Buckthorn, Cockspur, haw, hawthorn, may, whitethorn), çit çalısı, çalıdan çit (quick hedge, quick-fence). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | саджати живопліт, зроблений з живих рослин, живці у живоплоті. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | h ng r o táo gai, $quickset hedge$ h ng r o cây xanh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quickset": quicksets. (additional references) | |
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"Quickset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Quickso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: quickest. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-q-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cuties, quicks, quiets. | |
-3 letters: cesti, cites, cukes, cutes, cutie, cutis, etuis, ictus, kites, quest, quick, quiet, quite, quits, scute, skite, stick, stuck, suite, ticks, tikes, tucks. | |
-4 letters: cist, cite, cues, cuke, cusk, cute, cuts, ecus, etic, etui, ices, kist, kite, kits, kues, quit, scut, sect, sice, sick, sike, site, skit, suck, suet, suit. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-q-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quicksets, quickstep. | |
+2 letters: quicksteps. | |
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