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quick

(kwĭk)

adj. quick·er, quick·est

1. Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy: an animal that is quick enough to escape most predators.

2. Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright: a quick mind.

a. Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen: quick reflexes.

b. Reacting immediately and sharply: a quick temper.

a. Occurring, achieved, or acquired in a relatively brief period of time: a quick rise through the ranks; a quick profit.

b. Done or occurring immediately: a quick inspection. See Synonyms at fast¹.

5. Tending to react hastily: quick to find fault.

6. Archaic

a. Alive.

b. Pregnant.

1. Sensitive or raw exposed flesh, as under the fingernails.

2. The most personal and sensitive aspect of the emotions: The remark cut her to the quick.

3. The living: the quick and the dead.

4. The vital core; the essence: got to the quick of the matter.

adv. quicker, quickest

Quickly; promptly.

[Middle English, alive, lively, quick, from Old English cwicu, alive; see g^wei- in Indo-European roots.]

quick′ly adv.

quick′ness n.

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Noun	1.	quickness - skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility skillfulness - the state of being cognitively skillful touch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch" dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight - adroitness in using the hands
	2.	quickness - intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay mental quickness, quick-wittedness intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
	3.	quickness - a rate that is rapid celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness pace, rate - the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated" fleetness - rapidity of movement; "fleetness of foot" immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness, immediacy - the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" expeditiousness, despatch, dispatch, expedition - the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" promptitude, promptness - the characteristic of doing things without delay

quickness

noun

1. Rapidness of movement or activity:

celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, haste, hurry, hustle, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness.

2. The quality or state of being mentally agile:

agileness, agility, dexterity, dexterousness, nimbleness.

Translations

سُرْعَه

rychlost

hurtighed

Schnelligkeit

rapidité célérité hâte

hraîi, snerpa

velocità

çabukluksürat

快速

quickness

[ˈkwɪknɪs] N

1. (= speed) → rapidez f, velocidad f
his quickness on his feet → su velocidad

2. (= lack of delay) → prontitud f

3. (= sharpness) → agudeza f
quickness of mind → rapidez f, agilidad f mental

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

quickness

[ˈkwɪknɪs] n

[movement] → rapidité f

[mind] → vivacité f
her quickness of mind → sa vivacité d'espritquick-release [ˌkwɪkrɪˈliːs] modif [wheel] → à démontage rapide; [buckle, strap] → à ouverture rapide

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

quickness

(= speed) → Schnelligkeit f; his quickness to appreciate the problem → die Schnelligkeit, mit der er das Problem erfasst hat

(= intelligence) → schnelle Auffassungsgabe; quickness of mind → Fähigkeit f, → schnell zu denken; quickness of eye → schnelle Auffassungsgabe; quickness of temper → heftiges or aufbrausendes Temperament

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

quickness

[ˈkwɪknɪs] n → velocità, rapidità; (of mind, intellect) → prontezza; (of eye) → acutezza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

quick

(kwik) adjective

1. done, said, finished etc in a short time. a quick trip into town.

2. moving, or able to move, with speed. He's a very quick walker; I made a grab at the dog, but it was too quick for me.

3. doing something, able to do something, or done, without delay; prompt; lively. He is always quick to help; a quick answer; He's very quick at arithmetic.

adverb

quickly. quick-frozen food.

ˈquickly adverb

ˈquicken verb

to make or become quicker. He quickened his pace.

ˈquickness noun

ˈquicklime noun

lime which has not been mixed with water.

ˈquicksands noun plural

(an area of) loose, wet sand that sucks in anyone or anything that stands on it.

ˈquicksilver noun

mercury.

ˌquick-ˈtempered adjective

easily made angry.

ˌquick-ˈwitted adjective

thinking very quickly. a quick-witted policeman.

ˌquick-ˈwittedly adverb

ˌquick-ˈwittedness noun

References in classic literature ?

Then there was his lightning quickness. It gave him a tremendous advantage over his antagonists.

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She was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness; and with this resemblance of her father, she inherited also much of his constitution; was delicate in her own health, overcareful of that of her children, had many fears and many nerves, and was as fond of her own Mr.

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But Sabor knew well the wondrous quickness of the jungle folk and their almost unbelievable powers of hearing.

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But, with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pavlovna wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak he had done of a man recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said:

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"They have none of them much to recommend them," replied he; "they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters."

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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster.

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My quickness would have to be remarkable, however, and the question of a conveyance was the great one to settle.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of understanding than her young friend.

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She had lived several years a servant with a schoolmaster, who, discovering a great quickness of parts in the girl, and an extraordinary desire of learning--for every leisure hour she was always found reading in the books of the scholars--had the good-nature, or folly--just as the reader pleases to call it--to instruct her so far, that she obtained a competent skill in the Latin language, and was, perhaps, as good a scholar as most of the young men of quality of the age.

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As he came Tarzan knelt and the dog shot through the air for his throat; but he was dealing with no man now and he found his quickness more than matched by the quickness of the Tarmangani.

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As he traveled he hunted as he had hunted with his ape people in the past, as Kala had taught him to hunt, turning over rotted logs to find some toothsome vermin, running high into the trees to rob a bird's nest, or pouncing upon a tiny rodent with the quickness of a cat.

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Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quickness of hand, and who knew no equal in his dangerous occupation.

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