Meaning

6 senses
  1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

    Nagelbett

    any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

  2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge

  3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

  4. Quitchgrass.

  5. A fast bowler.

  6. (archaic, with definite article)Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).

    the quick and the dead

Examples

929 sentences
  1. I want to get rich quick.

    Я хочу швидко розбагатіти. — deniko

  2. Tom gave Mary a quick kiss and got on the bus.

    Том чмокнув Мері й сів у автобус. — deniko

  3. Tom is really quick.

    Том дійсно швидкий. — deniko

    ruТом действительно проворный. — nin

    deTom ist superschnell. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I made a quick exit.

    Я хутко ретирувався. — deniko

    ruЯ быстро ушёл. — amanshi

  5. Do you have time for a quick game of checkers?

    Маєш час на швидку партію у шахи? — deniko

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sensitive flesh:

Origin

From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”),

From Middle English quik, quic (“living, alive, active”), from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku (“alive, lively quick”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive, lively, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”). For semantic development, compare lively.

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Forms

plural: quicks
Singularquick
Pluralquicks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Collocations

12 patterns
  • quicker at doing
  • be quicker at
  • take a quick
  • as quick as
  • still quicker at
  • a quick learner
  • would be quicker
  • a quick shower
  • quick learner
  • a quick lunch
  • make this quick
  • for your quick

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quick — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto