quick

  • 11quick — [adj1] fast, speedy abrupt, accelerated, active, agile, alert, a move on*, animated, ASAP*, breakneck*, brief, brisk, cursory, curt, double time*, energetic, expeditious, expeditive, express, fleet, flying, going, harefooted*, hasty, headlong,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 12quick — [kwɪk] adjective quick and dirty quick and dirty methods or solutions are simple ones that can be used quickly, especially until something better and more permanent can be decided: • We need a quick and dirty way to cut fuel costs …

    Financial and business terms

  • 13quick — (adj.) O.E. cwic living, alive, from P.Gmc. *kwikwaz (Cf. O.Fris. quik, O.N. kvikr living, alive, O.H.G. quec lively, Ger. keck bold ), from PIE root *gwiwo to live (see BIO (Cf. bio )). Sense of …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 14quick — s.n. v. quick kola (quickkola). [pr.: cuic] Trimis de tavi, 31.05.2004. Sursa: MDN  QUICK CUIC/ s. n. elem. quick. Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …

    Dicționar Român

  • 15Quick — * Quick, er, erste, adj. et adv. ein nur noch in einigen gemeinen Mundarten und in einigen Zusammensetzungen übliches Wort, welches eigentlich beweglich, rege, figürlich aber theils munter, frisch, lebhaft, theils aber auch lebendig bedeutet. Die …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 16Quick — Quick, v. t. & i. [See {Quicken}.] To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 17quick — I (discerning) adjective acute, adept, adroit, agile, aggressive, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, deft, dexterous, discerning, educable, educatable, fiery, instructable, intelligent, irascible, irritable, keen, nimble fingered, of… …

    Law dictionary

  • 18quick — quick:⇨lebhaft(1) quick 1.munter,lebhaft,lebendig,springlebendig,agil,quicklebendig,temperamentvoll,beweglich,anregend,quirlig,behände,vital 2.flink,schnell,hurtig,geschwind,blitzartig,gewandt,wendig …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 19quick|ie — «KWIHK ee», noun, adjective. Slang. –n. 1. a motion picture, novel, or the like, produced cheaply and in haste: »But his book remains, somehow, for all its basic honesty, a sort of journalistic quickie in blackface (New York Times). 2. a short… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 20Quick — Quick, 1) der Q., so v.w. Quecksilber; daher Quickerz, so v.w. Quecksilbererz; Quickgold, Quicksilber, mit Quecksilber vermischtes Gold od. Silber, zum Vergolden u. Versilbern im Feuer; Quickwasser, Auflösung des Quecksilbers in Salpetersäure mit …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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