quick

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

He's a quick runner.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

That was a quick meal.

Đồng nghĩa: ready

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

(of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

She has a very quick temper.

He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.

(archaic)Alive, living.

(archaic)(archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

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.

(archaic)(now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

(archaic)(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

Quickly, in a quick manner.

Get rich quick.

Come here, quick!

Answer quickly.

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.

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

the quick and the dead

Đồng nghĩa: living

Quitchgrass.

(cricket) A fast bowler.

(transitive)To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

(archaic, poetic, transitive)To quicken.