What does quicken mean?

Definitions for quicken
ˈkwɪk ənquick·en

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quickenverb

    move faster

    "The car accelerated"

  2. whet, quickenverb

    make keen or more acute

    "whet my appetite"

  3. quicken, invigorateverb

    give life or energy to

    "The cold water invigorated him"

  4. quickenverb

    show signs of life

    "the fetus quickened"

  5. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

    give new life or energy to

    "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

Wiktionary

  1. quickennoun

    The European rowan tree.

  2. quickenverb

    To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

  3. quickenverb

    To come back to life, receive life.

  4. quickenverb

    To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

  5. quickenverb

    To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

  6. quickenverb

    To become faster.

    My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.

  7. Etymology: From. Compare Swedish kvickna, Danish kvikne.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To QUICKENverb

    Etymology: cwiccan , Saxon.

    All they that go down into the dust, shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul. Psalm xxii. 30.

    I will never forget thy commandments; for with them thou hast quickened me. Psalm cxix.

    This my mean task would be
    As heavy to me, as ’tis odious; but
    The mistress which I serve, quickens what’s dead,
    And makes my labours pleasures. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    To quicken with kissing; had my lips that power,
    Thus would I wear them out. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleop.

    Fair soul, since to the fairest body join’d
    You give such lively life, such quick’ning pow’r,
    And influence of such celestial kind,
    As keeps it still in youth’s immortal flower. Davies.

    He throws
    His influence round, and kindles as he goes;
    Hence flocks and herds, and men, and beasts and fowls
    With breath are quicken’d, and attract their souls. Dryden.

    You may sooner by imagination quicken or slack a motion, than raise or cease it; as it is easier to make a dog go slower, than to make him stand still. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Others were appointed to consider of penal laws and proclamations in force, and to quicken the execution of the most principal. John Hayward.

    Though any commodity should shift hands never so fast, yet, if they did not cease to be any longer traffick, this would not at all make or quicken their vent. John Locke.

    Though my senses were astonished, my mind forced them to quicken themselves; because I had learnt of him, how little favour he is wont to shew in any matter of advantage. Philip Sidney.

    It was like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. South.

    They endeavour by brandy to quicken their taste already extinguished. Tatler, №. 57.

    This review he makes use of, as an argument of great force to quicken them in the improvement of those advantages to which the mercy of God had called them by the gospel. John Rogers, Sermons.

    The desire of fame hath been no inconsiderable motive to quicken you in the pursuit of those actions, which will best deserve it. Jonathan Swift.

  2. To Quickenverb

    These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,
    Will quicken and accuse thee; I’m your host;
    With robbers hands, my hospitable favour
    You should not ruffle thus. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    They rub out of it a red dust, that converteth after a while into worms, which they kill with wine when they begin to quicken. George Sandys, Journey.

    The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. John Ray, on the Creation.

    Sees by degrees a purer blush arise,
    And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. Quicken

    Quicken is a personal finance management application originally developed and offered by Intuit, Inc. Intuit sold Quicken to H.I.G. Capital in 2016, and H.I.G. sold Quicken to Aquiline Capital Partners in 2021.Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh systems, though the data is incompatible between the two versions. Earlier versions ran on DOS and the Apple II. Versions of Quicken range from "starter" editions to more advanced offerings. Since 1998, each version has tended to have the release year in the product name (e.g., Quicken Basic 2008); before then, versions were numbered (e.g., Quicken 8 for DOS). Quicken is only available for purchase and use in Canada and the United States, and only in English.

ChatGPT

  1. quicken

    To quicken means to make or become faster; accelerate. It can also mean to stimulate or become more active, or to spring into life or activity; to revive.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Quickenadjective

    to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite

  2. Quickenadjective

    to make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed

  3. Quickenadjective

    to shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced

  4. Quickenverb

    to come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb

  5. Quickenverb

    to move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened

Wikidata

  1. Quicken

    Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc. Different versions of Quicken run on Windows and Macintosh systems. Previous versions ran on DOS. There are several versions of Quicken, including Quicken Starter, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Rental Property Manager, Quicken Premier, Quicken Home & Business, Quicken Personal and Quicken Personal Plus. Since 2008, each version of Quicken has tended to have the release year in the product name. Prior to this, versions were numbered.. Quicken's major marketplace is North America, and the majority of the software sold is specialized for the United States and Canadian marketplace and user base. However the core functions can often be used more widely regardless of country, and in addition, versions have been tailored for a variety of marketplaces including Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, The Philippines and Singapore. Development of the UK-specific version of Quicken was discontinued in January 2005, with sales and support following shortly after. At one time or another there were also versions for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of quicken in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of quicken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of quicken in a Sentence

  1. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

    Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

  2. Warren Buffett:

    We buy a very few loans unrelated to the manufactured home business, and Quicken is the one we buy them from.

  3. Michael Drayne:

    The central question of the Quicken story is, how much and how quickly can they convert what they've done to purchase-money transactions.

  4. Joe Brusuelas:

    This would cause the Federal Reserve to quicken the pace of its policy normalization. You would hear more about a 50-basis point increase.

  5. Jeff Navin:

    Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

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  • паско́рыць, паскара́цьBelarusian
  • оживить, уско́рить, ускоря́тьRussian
  • துரிதப்படுத்துTamil

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