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)
- the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
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)
*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 Huma)
- If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
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.
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