quick
suomi-englanti sanakirjaquick englannista suomeksi
sukkela, vikkelä
nopeaälyinen, nokkela, nopea
ripeästi
hermo
kärkäs
Substantiivi
Verbi
quick englanniksi
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
(ux)
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
1549, (w), ''The Sixth Sermon Preached Before King Edward, April 6 1549''
- The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
(RQ:KJV)
1633, Herbert|George Herbert, ''The Temple''
- Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
1874, Thomson (B.V.)|James Thomson, ''of Dreadful Night|The City of Dreadful Night'', X
- The inmost oratory of my soul,
- Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
- Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)
Section 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)
- Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
*2012, (w), ''London in the Eighteenth Century'', Bodley Head 2017, p. 385:
- When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.
Of water: flowing.
(RQ:Shakespeare Pericles) the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,
productive; not "dead" or barren
(RQ:Locke Human Understanding)
Answer quickly.
2006, SquarePants|SpongeBob SquarePants, ''Whale of a Birthday''
- (quote)
Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
1641, (w), ''diary entry September 1641''
- The works (..) are curiously hedged with quick.
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
1550, (w), ''Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550''
- This test nippeth, (..) this toucheth the quick.
(RQ:Fuller Church Histor)
- How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
A bowler.
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in acid.
To quicken.
1917, (w), ''At the Word 'Farewell
- I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
(RQ:Fontane Effi Briest)
(quote-book)|year=1899|passage=Die Wirtin des Hauses, Frau Hagelversicherungssekretär Schickedanz, hätte diesen gelegentlichen Aufenthalt der Nichte Hartwigs eigentlich beanstanden müssen, ließ es aber gehen, weil Hedwig ein heiteres, quickes und sehr anstelliges Ding war und manches besaß, was die Schickedanz mit der Ungehörigkeit des ewigen Dienstwechsels wieder aussöhnte.