Meaning of quick | Babel Free
kwɪkDefinitions
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- rapid, quick, fast
- rapidly, quickly, fast
- Quickly; promptly.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- rapid (part of a river)
- A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate:bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, root.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- express train
- In a rapid way:apace, fast, posthaste, quickly.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- quickly. quick-frozen food. vinnig سَريع، يَحْدُثُ بِسُرْعَه бързо rápido hned, rychle schnell hurtigt; rapt; lyn- γρήγοραde prisa, rápido, rápidamente kiir- به سرعت nopeasti viteמהיר फुर्ती से brzo gyorsan cepat fljótt velocemente 速く 급히 greitai ātri; strauji cepat snel-fort deg!; skynd deg!; rask på!szybko په بيړه، په چټكۍ rápido repede быстро, скорее rýchlo hitro brzo fort, snabbt อย่างรวดเร็ว çabuk, çabucak 快速地 швидко جلد nhanh 快速地
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Alive, living. archaic
- vinnig بِسُرْعَه бързо rapidamente rychle schnell hurtigt; omgående γρήγοραde prisa, rápido, rápidamente kiiresti به سرعت nopeasti viteמהר फुर्ती से brzo gyorsan dengan cepat snögglega, fljótt rapidamente, alla svelta 速く 빨리 greitai ātri; strauji dengan cepat vlugraskt, fort, kjaptprędko په بيړه، په چټكۍ rapidamente repede быстро, скоро rýchlo hitro brzo fort, snabbt อย่างรวดเร็ว çabuk çabuk 快速地 швидко تیزی سے nhanh chóng 快速地
- to make or become quicker. He quickened his pace. versnel يُسَرِّعُ، يَحُثُّ забързвам apressar zrychlit (se) beschleunigen sætte farten op επιταχύνω, γίνομαι πιο γρήγορος acelerar, aligerar kiirendama, kiirenema تند کردن nopeuttaa accélérer לְהֵיעָשוֹת מָהִיר יוֹתֵר तेज ubrzati meggyorsít mempercepat hraða accelerare 早める 빠르게 하다 (pa)spartinti, (pa)greitinti paātrināt mempercepatkan versnellenraske på, framskynde, sette opp fartenprzyspieszyć ژوند وركول، ژوندى كول: لمسول، پارول: ګړندي كول apre...
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At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus. archaic
- vinnigheid سُرْعَه бързина rapidez rychlost die Schnelligkeit hurtighed γρηγοράδα, σβελτάδα, ευστροφίαrapidez nobedus تندی nopeus rapiditéמהירות शीघ्रता, जल्दी brzina gyorsaság kecepatan hraði, snerpa rapidità, prontezza 速さ 민첩, 빠름 greitumas ātrums kecepatan vlugheidraskhetszybkość ژوندى rapidez rapiditate быстрота rýchlosť hitrost brzina snabbhet, raskhet ความเร็ว çabukluk, sürat 快速 швидкість پھرتی sự nhanh chóng; sự lanh lợi 快速
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Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling. archaic
- lime which has not been mixed with water. ongebluste kalk جير حَي، كِلْس غَيْر مُطْفَأ негасена вар cal viva nehašené vápno ungelöschter Kalk brændt kalk ασβέστης που δεν έχει αναμειχθεί με νερό cal viva kustutamata lubi آهک زنده kalkki chaux vive סִיד חָי अबुझा चूना živo vapno oltatlan mész gamping brennt kalk calce viva 生石灰 생석회 negesintos kalkės nedzēsti kaļķi kapur tohor ongebluste kalk brent kalk wapno niegaszone چونه cal viva var nestins негашёная известь nehasené vápno živo apno živi kr...
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Flowing, not stagnant. archaic
- (an area of) loose, wet sand that sucks in anyone or anything that stands on it. dryfsand رِمالٌ مُتَحَرِّكَه плаващ пясък areia movediça pohyblivé písky der Treibsand kviksand κινούμενη άμμος arenas movedizas vesiliiv باتلاق شنی juoksuhiekka sables mouvants חוֹל טוֹבעָנִי चोर बालू živ pijesak folyós homok pasir berpusar kviksandur sabbie mobili 流砂 유사(流砂) dribsmėlis plūstošās smiltis pasir jerlus drijfzand kvikksand lotne piaski لمدى شګې (ريګ) چې سړى پكښې ډوبيږي areia movediça nisipuri mişcăt...
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Burning, flammable, fiery. archaic
- mercury. kwik زِئْبَق живак mercúrio rtuť das Quecksilber kviksølv υδράργυροςmercurio elavhõbe جیوه elohopea mercureכספית पारा živa higany air raksa kvikasilfur mercurio 水銀 수은 gyvsidabris dzīvsudrabs merkuri kwikzilverkvikksølv żywe srebro اره ( سيماب mercúrio argint viu ртуть ortuť živo srebro živa kvicksilver ปรอท cıva 水銀 ртуть سیال پارہ thuỷ ngân 水银
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Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. obsolete
- productive; not "dead" or barren
- Not cryptic.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
Equivalents
Examples
“I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.”
“He's a quick runner.”
“The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.”
“That was a quick meal.”
“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.”
“You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.”
“My father is old but he still has a quick wit.”
“She has a very quick temper.”
“He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.”
“The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.”
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:”
“Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.”
“The inmost oratory of my soul, Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead, Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.”
“Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.”
“she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours”
“Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.”
“When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.”
“And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.”
“[…] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,”
“Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
See also
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