How to pronounce “quick”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
• Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
• Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
• Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
• (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
• (archaic) Alive, living.
• (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
• (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
• (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
• (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
• (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
• (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
• (crosswording) Not cryptic.
• Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
• [Adverb]
• Quickly, in a quick manner.
• Answer quickly.
• [Noun]
• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
• Plants used in making a quickset hedge
• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
• (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
• Quitchgrass.
• (cricket) A fast bowler.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
• (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.

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