What does quick mean?
Definitions for quick
kwɪkquick
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word quick.
Princeton's WordNet
quickadjective
any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
quick, speedyadjective
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"
flying, quick, fastadjective
hurried and brief
"paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
agile, nimble, quick, spryadjective
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"
quick, readyadjective
apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
"a quick mind"; "a ready wit"
immediate, prompt, quick, straightawayadjective
performed with little or no delay
"an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
quick, warmadverb
easily aroused or excited
"a quick temper"; "a warm temper"
promptly, quickly, quickadverb
with little or no delay
"the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"
Wiktionary
quicknoun
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
quickadverb
to do with speed, quickly
quickadjective
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
quickadjective
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
That was a quick meal.
quickadjective
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
quickadjective
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
quickadjective
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
quickadjective
Alive, living.
quickadjective
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
She was quick with child.
quickadjective
Of water: flowing.
quickadjective
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Etymology: From quik or quic, from cwic, from kwikwaz, from gʷih₃wós, from gʷey-. Cognate with Dutch kwiek, German keck, Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek, Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas, Latvian dzivs, Russian, Irish biathaim, Kurdish jîn and jiyan.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
QUICKadjective
Etymology: cwic , Saxon.
They swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us. Psalm cxxiv. 3.
If there be quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy. Lev. xiii. 10.
The quick and the dead. Common Prayer.
As the sun makes; here noon, there day, there night
Melts wax, dries clay, makes flow’rs, some quick, some dead. Davies.Thence shall come,
When this world’s dissolution shall be ripe,
With glory and pow’r to judge both quick and dead. John Milton.Prayers whereunto devout minds have added a piercing kind of brevity, thereby the better to express that quick and speedy expedition, wherewith ardent affections, the very wings of prayer, are delighted to present our suits in heaven. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 33.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return
Repeated. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix.A man of great sagacity in business, and he preserved so great a vigour of mind even to his death, when near eighty, that some, who had known him in his younger years, did believe him to have much quicker parts in his age than before. Edward Hyde.
A man must have passed his noviciate in sinning, before he comes to this, be he never so quick a proficient. South.
The animal, which is first produced of an egg, is a blind and dull worm; but that which hath its resurrection thence, is a quick eyed, volatile and sprightly fly. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.
Quickadverb
Nimbly; speedily; readily.
Ready in gybes, quick answer’d, saucy, and
As quarrellous as the weazel. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.This shall your understanding clear
Those things from me that you shall hear,
Conceiving much the quicker. Michael Drayton, Nymphid.They gave those complex ideas, that the things they were continually to give and receive information about, might be the easier and quicker understood. John Locke.
This is done with little notice, if we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed, requiring not time, but many of them crowded into an instant. John Locke.
Quicknoun
Peeping close into the thick,
Might see the moving of some quick,
Whose shape appeared not;
But were it fairy, fiend or snake,
My courage earned it to wake,
And manful thereat shot. Edmund Spenser.If Stanley held, that a son of king Edward had still the better right, it was to teach all England to say as much; and therefore that speech touched the quick. Francis Bacon.
Seiz’d with sudden smart,
Stung to the quick, he felt it at his heart. Dryden.The thoughts of this disgraceful composition so touches me to the quick, that I cannot sleep. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.
Scarifying gangrenes, by several incisions down to the quick, is almost universal, and with reason, since it not only discharges a pernicious ichor, but makes way for topical applications. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.
For inclosing of land, the most usual way is with a ditch and bank set with quick. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Wikipedia
quick
QUICK Corp. (株式会社QUICK) is a financial market information vendor headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1971 as Quotation Information Center K.K. (株式会社市況情報センター), and changed its corporate name to the acronym "QUICK" in 1987. QUICK has four offices in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka) as well as overseas offices in London and Hong Kong.
ChatGPT
quick
Quick pertains to something that is done fast, rapidly, or within a short period of time. It can refer to a high speed or rate of motion or activity. It can also refer to someone or something that responds or reacts swiftly or promptly.
Webster Dictionary
Quick
alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate
Quick
characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready
Quick
speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick
Quick
impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper
Quick
fresh; bracing; sharp; keen
Quick
sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear
Quick
pregnant; with child
Quickadverb
in a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick
Quicknoun
that which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge
Quicknoun
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
Quicknoun
quitch grass
Quick
to revive; to quicken; to be or become alive
Etymology: [See Quicken.]
Freebase
Quick
Quick is a defunct Dallas-Fort Worth area free weekly newspaper published from 2003 to 2011. As the name implies, it was delivered in a quick-to-read format: a tabloid ranging in page count from 20 to 40. It was available free each week on Thursdays from street teams and courtesy news racks at Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail stations, office buildings, and other busy locations throughout the Dallas area. Initially, Quick was a free daily paper that contained "quick hits" Of the daily top news stories, weather and sports. However, after declining readership and distribution issues began to plague the paper, it switched to a once a week format that highlighted entertainment and lifestyle offerings in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex such as music, movies and local dining aimed at the 18 to 40 age demographic. It was considered a direct competitor of another local entertainment/lifestyle guide, the Dallas Observer. Dallas Morning News officials announced on July 27, 2011, that Quick would cease publication with its August 4, 2011, issue. The publisher said it ended publication because the eight-year venture was ultimately unprofitable. Nine employees, including two part-timers, were laid off as a result.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Quick
kwik, adj. living: lively: speedy: nimble: ready: sensitive: hasty: pregnant: active, piercing.—adv. without delay: rapidly: soon.—n. a living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts: a hedge of some growing plant, quickset.—adj. Quick′-an′swered (Shak.), quick at giving an answer.—n. Quick′beam, the mountain-ash or rowan.—adj. Quick′-conceiv′ing, quick at conceiving or understanding.—v.t. Quick′en, to make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.—v.i. to become alive: to move with activity.—n. the couch or quitch-grass.—ns. Quick′ener, one who, or that which, reinvigorates; Quick′ening, the period in pregnancy when the mother first becomes conscious of the movement of the child—from the sixteenth or seventeenth week onwards.—adj. Quick′-eyed, having acute sight.—ns. Quick′-grass=Quitch-grass; Quick′-hedge, a hedge of living plants; Quick′lime, recently burnt lime, caustic and unslaked: carbonate of lime without its carbonic acid.—adv. Quick′ly.—ns. Quick′march (same as Quick′step); Quick′match (see Match); Quick′ness; Quick′sand, a movable sandbank in a sea, lake, &c., any large mass of sand saturated with water, often dangerous to travellers: anything treacherous.—adj. Quick′-scent′ed, having a keen scent.—n. Quick′set, a living plant set to grow for a hedge, particularly the hawthorn.—adj. consisting of living plants.—adj. Quick′-sight′ed, having quick or sharp sight: quick in discernment.—ns. Quick′-sight′edness, sharpness of sight or discernment; Quick′silver, the common name for fluid mercury, so called from its great mobility and its silvery colour.—v.t. to overlay or to treat with quicksilver.—adj. Quick′silvered.—ns. Quick′silvering, the mercury on the back of a mirror; Quick′step, a march in quick time: (mus.) a march written in military quick time.—adj. Quick′-tem′pered, irascible.—n. Quick′-wa′ter, a solution of nitrates of mercury and of gold, for water-gilding.—adj. Quick′-wit′ted, having ready wit.—ns. Quick′-wit′tedness; Quick′-work, the part of a ship under water when laden: the part of the inner upper-works of a ship above the covering board: the short planks worked inside between the ports: spirketting.—Some quick (Spens.), something alive. [A.S. cwic; Ice. kvikr, Goth. kwius, living; allied to L. vivus.]
Suggested Resources
quick
Song lyrics by quick -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by quick on the Lyrics.com website.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
QUICK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Quick is ranked #1416 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Quick surname appeared 25,091 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Quick.
80.9% or 20,301 total occurrences were White.
13.1% or 3,310 total occurrences were Black.
2.2% or 572 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 487 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 276 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 143 total occurrences were Asian.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'quick' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2054
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'quick' in Written Corpus Frequency: #877
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'quick' in Adjectives Frequency: #192
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of quick in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of quick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of quick in a Sentence
To a quick question, give a slow answer.
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
The initial closure of Panel 6 was supposed to be one of the quick and easy things to be done. It's not done. It's not quick. It's not easy. There are going to be risks to workers just to do that, this is in fact unprecedented and very hard and it's taking longer and it's going to cost more than what they've generally wanted to talk about.
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird,' i didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.
Fingerprints are so quick compared with urine or blood or even saliva. You can put a fingerprint down in a couple of seconds, and our method of analysis is so quick - it literally takes two minutes to analyze a fingerprint sample.
Popularity rank by frequency of use
Translations for quick
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- سَريع, سريعArabic
- тиҙ, шәпBashkir
- хуткіBelarusian
- бързBulgarian
- corrents, carn vivaCatalan, Valencian
- rychlýCzech
- bywWelsh
- kvik, hurtigDanish
- schnell, schnell von Begriff, geschwind, quicklebendig, rasch, NagelbettGerman
- γρήγορα, γρήγοροςGreek
- rápido, carne vivaSpanish
- nobeEstonian
- فرزPersian
- äkkipikainen, nopea, vikkelä, elävä, sukkela, nopeaälyinen, nokkela, virtaava, pikainen, herkästi syttyvä, nopeastiFinnish
- rapide, animé, vivantFrench
- luath, tráthúil, beoIrish
- gradScottish Gaelic
- gyors, eleven, lobbanékony, friss, élénk, hirtelen, eszesHungarian
- արագArmenian
- rapideInterlingua
- fljóturIcelandic
- rapidoItalian
- 速い, 早いJapanese
- სწრაფიGeorgian
- ತ್ವರಿತKannada
- 빠르다, 빠른Korean
- گورجKurdish
- rapidus, quickLatin
- knašs, nasks, žigls, straujš, ātrs, ašsLatvian
- брз, досетлив, бистар, жив, остроуменMacedonian
- haastig, snel, rap, vlug, levend vleesDutch
- kvikk, rask, frisk og raskNorwegian
- szybkiPolish
- ligeiro, célere, rápido, velozPortuguese
- rapid, aprig, iute, energic, repede, ager, înfocat, violent, vioi, învăpăiat, sprinten, vioaieRomanian
- быстрый, живой, проворный, вспыльчивый, скорый, бы́строRussian
- брз, brzSerbo-Croatian
- rýchlySlovak
- hiterSlovene
- kvick, snabb, ilsken, rapp, lättretlig, ilsk, hastig, snabbt, fortSwedish
- விரைவானTamil
- швидкий, скорийUkrainian
- nhanhVietnamese
- 快的Chinese
Get even more translations for quick »
Translation
Find a translation for the quick definition in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Word of the Day
Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"quick." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. Web. 26 Sep. 2023. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/quick>.
Discuss these quick definitions with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In