1. (adj.)quick done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity: a quick response.
2. quick completed in a short time: a quick shower.
3. quick moving with speed: a quick fox.
4. quick easily provoked or excited: a quick temper.
5. quick keenly responsive; lively; acute: a quick wit.
6. quick acting with swiftness or rapidity: a quick worker.
7. quick prompt or swift in doing, perceiving, or understanding: quick to respond; a quick eye.
8. quick (of a bend or curve) sharp: a quick bend in the road.
9. quick brisk, as fire, flames, or heat.
10. quick Archaic.
11. quick endowed with life.
12. quick having a high degree of energy or activity.
13. (n.)quick living persons: the quick and the dead.
14. quick the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, esp. that under the nails.
15. quick the vital or most important part.
16. (adv.)quick quickly.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME quik lively, moving, swift; OE cwic, cwicu living; c. G queck, keck, ON kvikr)
Definition of 'QUICK'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)quick any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
2. (adj)quick, speedy 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"
3. (adj)flying, quick, fast hurried and brief "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
4. (adj)agile, nimble, quick, spry 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"
5. (adj)quick, ready apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"
6. (adj)immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway performed with little or no delay "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
7. (adverb)quick, warm easily aroused or excited "a quick temper"; "a warm temper"
8. (adverb)promptly, quickly, quick with little or no delay "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"
1. (adjective)quick fast a quick look at the book; The trip was quicker than I expected.; a quick demonstration of how it works
2. quick quick to to do quickly as a reaction People were quick to blame the media for the panic.
3. quick be quick to hurry Please be quick or we'll be late.
4. quick able to easily understand or learn sth new; = bright She's very quick at math.
Definition of 'QUICK'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adverb)QUICK in a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick
2. (noun)QUICK that which is quick, or alive; a livinganimal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge
3. (noun)QUICK 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
Definitions of QUICK 
Afrikaans: vinnig
Arabic: سَريع
Bulgarian: бърз
Brazilian: rápido
Czech: chvatný, rychlý
German: schnell
Danish: hurtig
Greek: γρήγορος, σύντομος
Spanish: rápido
Estonian: lühi-, kiir-
Farsi: سریع؛ تند
Finnish: pikainen
French: rapide
Hebrew: מָהִיר
Hindi: तेज
Croatian: brz
Hungarian: gyors
Indonesian: cepat
Icelandic: snöggur, örstuttur, skynd
Italian: veloce, rapido
Japanese: すばやい
Korean: 단시간의
Lithuanian: greitas, skubus
Latvian: ātrs; īss (laikā)
Malay: cepat
Dutch: vlug
Norwegian: rask, kjapp, hurtig
Polish: szybki
Persian: سریع؛ تند
Pashto: چټك، ګړندى: تيارسۍ: بيړګن
Portuguese: rápido
Romanian: rapid
Russian: быстрый; короткий
Slovak: chvatný, rýchly
Slovenian: hiter
Serbian: brz
Swedish: snabb, hastig
Thai: รวดเร็ว
Turkish: çabuk
Taiwanese: 快的，短暫的
Ukrainian: швидкий
Urdu: مختصر وقت میں کیا یا کہا 
Vietnamese: mau chóng
Chinese: 快的
